Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

I'm going over to France for a week on Sunday, flying over with a new board
(I've never owned one myself before). The board is a Yukon Ride163 and the
bag is quite a basic burton one to accomodate boards up to 166. I have flow
bindings.

Anyway, I'm not quite sure what else to pack in the snowboard bag. Should I
leave the bindings attached? Is it advisable to surround the board with my
jacket / trousers etc for added protection on the flight? What do most
people do? I'm flying from Cardiff, UK with a budget airline.

Cheers

James

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:32:51 GMT, "James Varty"
wrote:

I'm going over to France for a week on Sunday, flying over with a new board
(I've never owned one myself before). The board is a Yukon Ride163 and the
bag is quite a basic burton one to accomodate boards up to 166. I have flow
bindings.

Anyway, I'm not quite sure what else to pack in the snowboard bag. Should I
leave the bindings attached? Is it advisable to surround the board with my
jacket / trousers etc for added protection on the flight? What do most
people do? I'm flying from Cardiff, UK with a budget airline.

I usually put a load of stuff in the bag. Boots usually fit in the
space at the end somewhere, and I pack most of my outer gear in there
too, to make it a big padded bag. Leave the bindings on, but fold
them down.

The last few years I've had a fairly large bag with wheels at one end,
and I put *all* my gear in there, just taking a little rucksack with
stuff for the flight in addition.
--
Champ

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

On Feb 7, 1:32 pm, "James Varty" wrote:
I'm going over to France for a week on Sunday, flying over with a new board
(I've never owned one myself before). The board is a Yukon Ride163 and the
bag is quite a basic burton one to accomodate boards up to 166. I have flow
bindings.

Anyway, I'm not quite sure what else to pack in the snowboard bag. Should I
leave the bindings attached? Is it advisable to surround the board with my
jacket / trousers etc for added protection on the flight? What do most
people do? I'm flying from Cardiff, UK with a budget airline.

When I flew with my snowboard last, I followed the suggestions I read
somewhere (either here or a random website) - namely, packing my
snowboarding clothes in the bag to increase the amount of padding, and
getting two 6 foot pieces of pipe insulation to protect the edges from
impacts. Worked wonders - everything arrived in one piece just fine.
I left the bindings attached, as I have a roomy board bag, and the
boot pocket on the bag increased the stability to where I wasn't
worried about impacts directly onto the bindings.


Cheers

James

Brandon

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

James Varty wrote:

I have flow bindings.

Remove the powerstrap and fold the highback down. Put the powerstrap
back on over the highback. Upon arrival put the parts back where they
belong for use.

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

"James Varty" wrote in
:

I'm going over to France for a week on Sunday, flying over with a

I unscrew the bindings just incase the bag takes a real bash.
Beyond that, I usually stuff gloves or other soft stuff at the
tip and tail. A sheet of bubble wrap goes under the base. I use
plastic butter tubs for binding parts and other small items (like
batteries for walkietalkies). Put stuff inside your boots too.

As to using your clothes... I've recently stopped dowing this
after reading a heads up from someone who's bag was lost. One
can always rent a board but who wants to go buy new pants, etc?
Now I'll use a couple sweat shirts or a towel for a little extra
padding and if they are missing for a few days I can still go out
without buying all new clothes!

Remember.. take the batteries out of anything you pack or the
security people tend to freak out - especially in the UK.

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

On Feb 8, 10:22 pm, "Mike M. Miskulin" wrote:
"James Varty" wrote :

I'm going over to France for a week on Sunday, flying over with a

I unscrew the bindings just incase the bag takes a real bash.
Beyond that, I usually stuff gloves or other soft stuff at the
tip and tail. A sheet of bubble wrap goes under the base. I use
plastic butter tubs for binding parts and other small items (like
batteries for walkietalkies). Put stuff inside your boots too.

As to using your clothes... I've recently stopped dowing this
after reading a heads up from someone who's bag was lost. One
can always rent a board but who wants to go buy new pants, etc?
Now I'll use a couple sweat shirts or a towel for a little extra
padding and if they are missing for a few days I can still go out
without buying all new clothes!

Remember.. take the batteries out of anything you pack or the
security people tend to freak out - especially in the UK.



I leave the bindings on and put stuff like pants, helmet, gloves, in
the bag, arranging so the softer stuff provides some cushion. I've
only taken bindings off if I'm packing a 2nd board. I think the
suggestion of using some foam pipe insulation that you can get for $2
at HD on the edges sounds like a good idea.

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

Have got some foam pipe insulation and its worked a treat - board now packed
and padded really securely. Thanks for all the tips.

Cheers guys!

James

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

On Feb 8, 10:22 pm, "Mike M. Miskulin" wrote:
"James Varty" wrote :

I'm going over to France for a week on Sunday, flying over with a

I unscrew the bindings just incase the bag takes a real bash.
Beyond that, I usually stuff gloves or other soft stuff at the
tip and tail. A sheet of bubble wrap goes under the base. I use
plastic butter tubs for binding parts and other small items (like
batteries for walkietalkies). Put stuff inside your boots too.

As to using your clothes... I've recently stopped dowing this
after reading a heads up from someone who's bag was lost. One
can always rent a board but who wants to go buy new pants, etc?
Now I'll use a couple sweat shirts or a towel for a little extra
padding and if they are missing for a few days I can still go out
without buying all new clothes!

I realize that this is a stale thread, but I can't resist chiming in
because this is exactly what happened to me this past weekend in Salt
Lake City. Thanks to appalling bungling by the airline, my wife and I
arrived in SLC only about four or five hours behind schedule on
Thursday night, but our luggage -- two suitcases and my snowboard bag
-- didn't make it there until Friday evening. I had my clothing and
gear neatly distributed between my board bag and suitcase, but when
both disappeared I was left with nothing. The airline actually gave me
a rental voucher for a local shop when I complained that I wouldn't be
able to ride on Friday, but there was simply too much that I lacked to
make that approach practical. Renting a board plus boots could have
been tolerable, but also missing were my gloves, wrist guards, helmet,
pants, jacket, knee pads, fleece pullovers, socks, and long underwear.
Thought about buying new editions of whatever couldn't be rented and
telling the shop to charge the airline, but it seemed like too much
work to start from scratch, and probably wouldn't have worked anyway.
On the plus side, since all the luggage was late, it wasn't my packing
strategy that caused the problem. :)

Joe Ramirez

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

On 21 Feb 2007 09:15:46 -0800, wrote:

On the plus side, since all the luggage was late, it wasn't my packing
strategy that caused the problem. :)

Joe Ramirez


JetBlue blues?

Where did you go in the SLC area, and how was the snow?

Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
 

On Feb 21, 1:53 pm, Nobody wrote:
On 21 Feb 2007 09:15:46 -0800, wrote:

On the plus side, since all the luggage was late, it wasn't my packing
strategy that caused the problem. :)

Joe Ramirez

JetBlue blues?

No, Northwest, but the level of ineptitude was similar. Our flight was
delayed for a long time because the pilots were unable to properly
input the flight plan. When they finally figured it out, we had been
taxiing for so long that we were short on fuel, so we had to go back
to the gate to refuel and de-ice again. We also had to make an
emergency stop in Chicago because a passenger had a medical problem
(though we were three hours late even without that stop). Of course we
missed our connection, causing both further delay as we scrambled and
fought to get on a later flight to SLC, and also the luggage snafu --
it was apparently rerouted to SLC via Missoula, Montana. My sister and
brother-in-law, who were meeting us in Utah, also had problems; their
flight was canceled and they had to buy a whole new set of tickets, so
they arrived in SLC at about the same time as my snowboard. ;)


Where did you go in the SLC area, and how was the snow?

One day at Snowbird and one at Brighton. Beautiful sunny days with
blue skies. Maybe a little too warm on Sunday. The snow was very nice
at both resorts by my Pennsylvania standards -- soft and plentiful.
Lots of powder in the Mineral Basin area of Snowbird, I heard from my
other brother-in-law, who sort of took a bath in it; I did not venture
there myself. A very slight icy veneer began to form in the late
afternoon of both days; nothing unusual about that. I believe that
about 7 inches of snow fell in the canyons on Thursday night, but I
didn't experience it because Friday was my lost luggage day. However,
I have no complaints about the conditions I encountered.

Joe Ramirez