Splitboards, Sweat and Cheers: Racing the Eighth-Annual Dirksen Derby

Splitboarding is not usually this chaotic. It can certainly be scary or even dangerous, but this is a sunny day at Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort. The climb is just a few hundred feet, yet there are a few dozen fans cheering, as well as two-dozen competitors in various levels of fervor. It’s the eighth-annual Dirksen Derby Splitboard Race, a skin-up-to-banked-slalom-down suffer-sprint hosted by pro-rider Josh Dirksen to benefit local disabled snowboarder, Tyler Eklund.

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