Burton

The 2026 Burton Counterbalance is a powerhouse snowboard, made for those who demand nothing but the best in performance. With its directional camber, this board delivers unmatched precision, responsiveness, and power. Perfect for tackling fresh snow while still holding an edge on groomers, the Counterbalance thrives in any terrain. Sit back, relax, and let this top-performing board guide you to new heights.

Shape/Profile: Directional Camber

Flex: Mid

Base: Sintered WFO

Details:

• A tapered directional snowboard features a shape where the tail is narrower than the nose, providing enhanced control and stability in deeper snow. This design improves floatation in powder and allows for smoother turns, making it ideal for freeride and backcountry riding. 
• Directional Camber incorporates rocker in the nose, enhancing float in powder while preserving the responsiveness and stability of traditional camber.

• Inserts: The Channel

  The Burton Channel forgoes the traditional mounting system and introduces a channel for your front and rear inserts. This allows you to fine-tune your stance width and gives you more freedom in your stance location. The Channel is compatible with most major binding brands, but works best with Burton EST bindings.

• Laminate: 45° Carbon Highlights:

  The 45° Carbon Highlights is a tip-to-tail carbon layer that cuts down on weight while incorporating 45° angled fibers. This design enhances the board's torsional flex, delivering a more aggressive and responsive ride.

• The Super Fly II 700G Core combines stronger, lighter woods in key areas, boosting pop and strength while reducing weight for a more responsive ride.
• Dualzone EGD aligns the wood grain along the heel and toe edges in two continuous zones, perpendicular to the rest of the core. This setup ensures superior edge hold and strength, delivering a more consistent and stable ride.
• Squeezebox blends thicker, more powerful sections with thinner, more flexible ones throughout the core. This profile improves energy transfer, making the board snappier and enhancing its stability.
• Edge: Frostbite Edges
  Frostbite Edges extend slightly under your bindings, providing extra edge hold on hardpack and ice for superior control and stability in challenging conditions.
• The Sintered WFO base—short for Wide F!#@ing Open—features a high-density, extra absorbent material infused with a special wax. This creates a durable, fast base that handles all conditions with ease.
• Infinite Ride:
  Burton's Infinite Ride process overbuilds each board in the factory before using machinery to break it in. This ensures your board maintains its pop and performance from day one to day 100, year after year, for consistent, long-lasting performance.

Since its debut in 1996, the Burton Custom Snowboard has been synonymous with innovation, earning its place as the most popular, versatile, and imitated board in snowboarding. With each evolution, it blends time-tested design with cutting-edge technology to create a lightweight, poppy, and highly adaptable ride. The Custom Camber, in particular, is the go-to choice for many Burton pro riders, offering unmatched stability and precision.

Featuring vibrant jungle graphics, the Custom board embraces a “ride-to-paradise” theme, reflecting its eclectic personality through the rich depth and colors of a lush jungle landscape.

Shape/Profile: Directional Twin Camber

Flex: Fairly Stiff

Base: Sintered WFO

Details:

• Directional Shape is designed to be ridden with a slightly longer nose than tail to concentrate pop in the tail while providing plenty of float, flow, and control to rip any terrain or condition

• A Camber Bend advocates powerful turns and poppy precision, offering snappy suspension with weight distributed evenly across the entire board for smooth, continuous edge control from tip to tail

• Super Fly II 700G Core uses stronger and lighter wood to provide pop and strength while reducing overall weight

• Dualzone EGD engineered wood grain is positioned along the toe and heel edges on two continuous zones perpendicular to the core for more edge-hold, response, and strength

• 45° Carbon Highlights Fiberglass build optimizes each layer of the fiberglass matrix and adds a full tip-to-tail carbon layer to reduce weight and fine-tune torsional feel

• WFO Base infuses specially formulated wax deep into the pores of the extra-absorbent, high-density sintered material, making it ultradurable for riding all season in any condition

• Infinite Ride, Pro-Tip, Squeezebox, Super Sap

• 3-YEAR WARRANTY

SIZE GUIDE

When it's waist deep and dumping, there is no substitute for the Women's Burton [ak] 3L Kimmy Bib Pants. Ultra lightweight and highly breathable stretch GORE-TEX three-layer fabric is fully sealed with GORE-TEX seam tape and incorporates field-proven articulation for complete freedom when hiking, splitting, sledding, or shredding. The bib features stretch paneling for unrestricted mobility, plus a chest pocket array that keeps everything in it's place with a beacon clip and a media pocket. The suspender system with a drop seat feature works seamlessly under a jacket and allows for easy relief in the field as well as ample venting to prevent overheating.

Waterproofing / Breathability: 3L Gore-Tex

Details:

There is no substitute for the men's Burton [ak] Freebird GORE-TEX 3L Stretch Bib Pants. They feel light and mobile, but they're packed with backcountry-worthy tech to keep you warm, dry, and focused on the moment whether you're hiking, splitboarding, sledding, or simply riding the lift. From pocket placement, stretch fabric, and adjustable suspenders that make sense when you're layered up, you'll be riding more and messing with your layers less in these bibs.

Waterproofing / Breathability: 3L Gore-Tex

Warmth Rating: Shell 

Details:

• Lightweight and Stormproof GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU DRY GORE-TEX 3L is lighter weight than 2L GORE-TEX material as well as being waterproof, windproof, breathable, and durable enough to keep you on the move in all weather, period.
• Three-Layer Shell Versatility Three-layer design creates a lightweight shell made for layering to match the conditions.
• Small Details Make a Big Difference Rider-designed details like zip vents, adjustable suspenders, and a cut that's made for movement add up to more riding and less fiddling.
• Choice Pockets All the right pockets including a pocket with a beacon loop, zippered chest pockets with a built-in device pocket and a media port, secure cargo pockets, and zippered hand-warmer pockets.
• Low Environmental Impact Bluesign approved materials reduce impact on humans and the planet during manufacturing.
• Lifetime Warranty.

Team rider, Kimmy Fasani, knows a thing or two about riding a snow storm and what makes a great snowboard jacket. From a stretch material to pocket placement and fit that makes sense, you'll be riding more and messing less. When it's waist deep and dumping, there's no substitute for the women's Burton [ak] Kimmy GORE-TEX 3L Stretch Jacket. It light and mobile, but it's packed with backcountry-worthy tech to keep you warm, dry, and focused on the moment. 

Waterproofing / Breathability: Gore-Tex 3L

Details:

• Backpack Friendly Design
• Power Mesh Wrist Gaiters
• RECCO Reflector
• Ergonomic Stretch Zip-Out Waist Gaiter with Jacket to Pant Interface
• Shaped Cuffs
• 2-Way Center Front Zipper
• Reflective Details
• Stretch Fabrication
• Brushed Shell Backer Provides Light Warmth in this 3L Jacket
• Hood with Drop Construction and Cohaesive Embedded Cinch and Hood Length Adjustment
• Zippered Chest Pocket,Zippered Handwarmer Pockets,Zippered Internal Chest Pocket,Zippered Sleeve Pass Pocket,Interior Power Mesh Dump Pockets
• YKK Water Resistant Zippers
• Bluesign approved materials
• Lifetime Warranty

The men's Burton [ak] Hover GORE-TEX 3L Stretch Jacket is the lightest, most packable shell in the AK line. Its minimalist design packs away easily in your pack when you're on the skin track, and it delivers trusted stormproof protection and key features that you can count on for easy days in the backcountry.

Waterproofing / Breathability Rating: Gore-Tex 3L

No matter the terrain or the weather, this fully-taped ultimate tech pant will give you the relentless protection required to push your riding further. Ultra breathable and highly durable GORE-TEX three-layer pro shell fabric enables the Men's Burton AK GORE-TEX 3L Hover Pant 2024 to stand up to the daily abuse of mountain guides and pros alike. Turbo-cooling Crossflow Venting, with both inner and outer thigh vents, prevents your quads from overheating. The lifetime warranty, which is offered on all Burton AK outerwear, ensures quality you can count on, season after season.

Waterproofing / Breathability: 3L Gore-Tex 

Warmth Rating: Shell 

Details:

• GORE-TEX Pro Shell is GORE's most durable waterproof, breathable construction for coverage you can count on daily.
• Every detail counts including water-resistant zippers, thigh vents, and reinforced cuffs.
• The cut and fit match the natural movement of the body for full mobility.
• Fully Taped Seams with GORE-SEAM Tape
• Mesh-Lined No-Snag Test-I-Cool Vents
• YKK Water Resistant Zippers
• Zippered Handwarmer and Back Pockets
• Zippered Hidden Cargo Pocket Under the Hand Warmer Pocket Bags
• Triple Needle Reinforced Inseam
• Crotch Gusset for Mobility
• Crossflow Venting
• Articulated Patterning for Mobility
• Beacon Loop in Wearer's Right Handwarmer Pocket
• Cuff Elevators
• Anti-Scuff Cuffs
• Lifetime Warranty

When you spend more time on the mountain than off, you need bibs that stand up to heavy use. The women's Burton [ak] Tusk GORE-TEX Pro 3L Hi-Top Bib Pants have the tech, fit, and performance you need, especially backcountry-specific. With its absolute stormproof protection in the most durable and breathable GORE-TEX build possible. Little details like the right pockets and a shaped fit that's made for moving are key when you're scoping lines and route-finding in unknown terrain.

Waterproofing / Breathability: Gore-Tex 3L

Details:

• GORE-TEX Pro Shell is GORE's most durable waterproof, breathable construction for coverage you can count on daily.
• Three-layer design creates a lightweight shell made for layering to match the conditions.
• Stuff like a beacon-friendly power-mesh pocket, a shaped fit, zip vents, and an easy-open drop seat add up to more time riding and less time messing with your gear.
• All the pockets you need including an external power-mesh chest pocket, zippered and expandable hand-warmer pockets plus chest pockets with media ports and webbing loops keep your important stuff close at hand.
• Bluesign approved materials reduce impact on humans and the planet during manufacturing.
• Lifetime Warranty