This Snowboard Uses a Forked Design From the Era of ‘Snurfing’

Snowboarding in its earliest days was essentially winterized surfing—it was actually called “snurfing,” and there were occasionally fins involved. Largely banned from resorts, seminal boarders built gear to carve powder like water and didn’t bother spinning around and riding in both directions. Now, decades later, what is old is new again in Nitro Snowboards’ Quiver Cannon ($520), a wide, fish-shaped board built to float and bounce in deep snow like a pink dolphin in a curling wave.

• With the Family Tree Mystery Fish ($1,750), Burton Snowboards, the sport’s biggest player, offers a pricey piece of high-tech hardware with a design that draws heavily from its early days in the 1980s.