K2 Cool Bean vs Lib Tech T.Rice Orca

The K2 Cool bean. This board is a powder boomber. It is a STIFF board for it's size but with it's width its lays a mean edge in pow or on groomers. I've found it to be a little torsionaly stiff for tress but a great overall board

As the title says this board is MEGA FUN!! If you like hard charging lines and having a board underneath you that absolutely destroys everything in its path then you should get this board...like yesterday

So the more you put into it, the more you're going to get out of it. But don't expect a lot of rebound from this board. You're just going to engage an...

This board shreds. I’m riding a 157. I wear size 11 boots, 200 pounds. The board floats me easy in pow and rips everything else too

Let’s cut to the chase. The main reason I am writing this article is to stress the surprising versatility of the Cool Bean. I’ve had mine for something like seven years now, and I’ve ridden it just about everywhere — from New York and Vermont and West Virginia to Colorado and Utah and Washington to Canada and Austria and Japan. Which means I’ve gotten to try it out in a variety of conditions, including not only groomed runs but ice and slush and dust on crust — and very ill-advised tree runs with rocks and roots peeking out of the snow

The 2023 Capita Mega Mercury has all the criteria necessary for anyone who likes to go HAM on the mountain. Lightweight. Twitchy edge to edge responsiveness. Medium-Stiff flex