FFS Pod with Phantom Snow Industries
John Keffler has been splitboarding since day one. He’s not only the founder of Phantom Snow Industries, but also a co-founder of the Silverton Splitboard Festival.
He started by offering wanna-be splitboarders a cutting service to turn their solid boards into splits, before then turning his NASA engineering knowledge into the development of hard-boot splitboard bindings. Phantom has now developed a splitboard-specific hard-boot to work perfectly with the Phantom Binding system, straight from the box.
We talk; guide culture, the progression of the Colorado splitboard scene, the development of the Phantom bindings and the new Phantom Slipper hard boot.
“I didn’t want to compromise what I liked about snowboarding, which is the feel of it, right!”
“Banks won’t give you money. They wouldn’t give us a credit card like forever.”
