Category: Powder Plates

The Spruce Mountain powder plates are a great idea and a great way for you to adjust the place setting of your bindings on the board. It works both on 4×4 inserts as well as the 4×10 binding pattern.

It comes with pre-drilled holes for you to be able to adjust the placing of your bindings mostly to set them back for powder days. Just a few simple turns of your screw and you can take off your bindings, slap these on your boards, and put your bindings into the plates at any back position you’d like.

There was a downfall with the plates I used. After some use and a little bit of tree skiing the screws pulled right out of the plates and stripped the hole, making the plate useless. Making these plates a bit thicker might have made it less likely for the screws to pull out.

Other than the one issue these plates are a great asset to anyone looking to do some powder skiboarding!

(Rider/Skiboardreview.com webmaster) Andrew Deehr – Intermediate Skiboarder

Spruce Powder Plates: An absolute must for anyone who plans to use Spruce Risers in powder. Turns a good day, into an amazing day. Even when coming back onto the groomers after hunting powder stashes on the glades 3 days after the snow stopped falling I really didn’t notice the setback too much on the groom. I can’t speak about when it’s harder though.

(Rider) Mitchell Kuntz – Expert Skiboarder

The Spruce Powder Plate for their Spruce bindings allow the Spruce binding to be mounted into various setback positions on a skiboard. The advantage of such a system is that this allows the Spruce binding to be specialized for the rider to be mounted further back on a binding, hence making going through powder conditions less work. Usually with a normal skiboard binding, they are mounted dead-center, and when they are mounted dead-center, for one to use a skiboard in powder, they need to lean back in order for the tips to stay floating on the powder. By using the Powder Plates, this is less of a task. Also, with the Powder Plates, it makes adjusting the setbacks very easy. If one doesn’t like the mounting, all you need to do is take a phillips head screwdriver, unscrew the binding, then screw it back in with a further back setting. With so many settings available, makes the Spruce binding even more versatile that it already is.

(Rider) Edward Ho – Expert Skiboarder