Just been looking around to see if there is such a thing. I want to find a Mountain Board that would either have a ski on the bottom just like a snowskate. If there is no such thing than wondering if there would be a way to mount a ski on the bottom of the trucks. The idea is to have a snowski with the bindings and handle of a Mountain Board/ATB. If you have any ideas or know of a place where I could get one of these please let me know.

Thanks
Shaggs

Here you go....

http://www.railzusa.com/

EDIT: Wait....I re-read your posting again. Are you saying you want to skate portion of it to be "outside" the actual board area as opposed to under it?

Still might be worth a look:
http://www.railzusa.com/id46.htm

There definitely might (sort maybe) be some tweaking involved.

You're embracing your inner "mad scientist" this week, aren't you

ATB,
Sam

yep I've been trying hard to come up with new ideas to introduce to the sport. I think that those railz may work for what I want. My initial idea what something like this with the concave footstraps and handle of a mountain board:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://i65.photobucket...

Snow boards totally rock on the Snow with kites. The bigger the better and easier to hold your edge and air time is not an issue with bindings. IMHO

I played around with a number of "snow ATBs" ideas and skibuggies back in the day. IMHO, they all sucked! compared to a snowboard or even skis.

there is the snowskate which is a skatedeck, i never liked the foam deck due to snowbuild up.

and Burton and Lib made this: http://www.dogfunk.com/snowboard/Lib-Technologies-43in-BTX-S...

at that price, IMO ... i would buy a snowkite spec snowboard.

Keith Kalio did a lot of testing and ended up with an ATB with ice blades but as soon as there was snow it was straight to the snowboard.

Here is Keith's ice board...

www.montanakitesports.com/v/iceboarding/

I agree with the opinions above : skis on a mountainboard do not provide many advantage compared to a snowboard (except being able to ride strapless).
We have tried on our Flexboardz but it was mainly to demonstrate the interest of tilting wheels (being able to "edge" when a standard mtb will sideslip)...
you can see a short video of a test on snow here :
VIDEO FLEXBOARDZ ON SNOW
Here is a pics of the prototype (I had to sacrificed my kid's skis )


However, on ice, it's a different story since a snowboard probably lacks of grip on ice but sadly there is no ice in my neighbourhood to test/develop it...
Btw, if someone living in a cold icy place is interested, I will be glad to cooperate with him to develop it
here is a vids made in Quebec with blizzice :
VIDEO FLEXBOARDZ ON ICE


and a CAD view of the proto

If you have good ice conditions the SwitchBlade for a snowboard will make your snowboard work on ice too. A few of the guy use it here but we have maybe a one week window with good ice at best. They seem to like it a lot and do very well with it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWmrSo-ZY0

from... http://mnkiteboy.com/

Thanks for the info, I did not know about switchblade...it seems to be really efficient!
in fact, I was thinking about icewindsurfing like here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=957HSTEvSSc