Snowboard Hook

A snowboard hook body for assisting a rider on a chairlift wearing a laced boot on a free foot to support a snowboard from the free foot at an open binding of the snowboard, comprising:

• a hook body having mounting means for mounting the hook body to said boot;
• an upstanding hook blade at a distal end of said hook body for, in use, engaging behind a portion of an open binding of a snowboard to support the snowboard;
• a shank on a proximal side of said hook blade, said shank configured with a bottom face suitably sized, in use, to support the hook body on said boot and to maintain the hook body in stable position with respect to the boot;
• and
• a pocket proximal to said upstanding blade for receiving, in use, a hooked portion of an open binding that is engaged by said blade.

A snowboard hook body for assisting a rider on a chairlift wearing a laced boot on a free foot to support a snowboard from the free foot at an open binding of the snowboard, comprising:

• a hook body disposed on a longitudinal axis between forward and rearward ends thereof, having opposite sides and a bottom face, defining a hook blade at said forward end thereof, defining a boot mount at said rearward end thereof, and defining a shank between said hook blade and said boot mount;
• wherein the boot mount defines a lace passageway extending transversely to said longitudinal axis between said opposite sides for, in use, receiving a span of bootlace of a snowboard boot to retain the hook body on the snowboard boot with the longitudinal axis of said hook body extending transversely to the received portion of bootlace;
• and
• wherein the boot mount defines a transverse slot between a slot top wall and a slot bottom wall that are spaced apart by a first width, said transverse slot extending between the opposite sides of the hook body and between a rearward opening at said lace passageway and a forward opening at a front face of the boot mount, whereby in use, the lace passageway can receive said transverse span of bootlace by the span of bootlace being slid sideways through said transverse slot from said forward opening through said rearward opening thereof;
• wherein the path of the transverse slot is nonlinear between the opposite sides of the hook body, the slot top wall and slot bottom wall forming a common bend reducing the available width of the slot to, in use, resist exit of the bootlace from the lace passageway by sliding passage of a straight span of the bootlace;
• said hook blade extending upward from said bottom face as measured with the bottom face in a horizontal plane;
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• wherein the height of the shank is below the height of the hook blade, establishing a reception area for, in use when the hook blade is elevated to attach to the open binding, receiving the portion of the open binding behind the hook blade.