Charging into the home of the Norse gods requires more than just an ordinary snowboard - you need some stiff, direcitional, able to carry speed and float above the chop and chunder that seems to plague the ski area sometimes. The Never Summer Valhalla Snowboard is just such a tool. A fresh design with a stout flex and a tapered directional shape with a "bat tail" cutout for improved floatation, the Valhalla gets it juice from an extra full-length laminate of carbon that produces explosive pope and adds power to each turn. Never Summer's dialed Trippple Camber profile is fine tuned for this board, with a longer early rise in the nose and a shorter transition area at the tail, for freeride fun at its most intense.