Culture
Technically Doing It All Over the World
It was August 2024 with temps around 90 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan when I saw videographer Luis Medearis strutting across Greene Street toward the Burton New York City Flagship Store. The Big Apple’s buildings were steadily trapping heat. Nevertheless, Lu...
New Favorite Person
Nainoa Holland has Twelve Quarters
Slogging through shin-deep corn at 9,000 feet on Mt. Hood, OR, I find myself struggling to keep pace with an energetic 17-year-old. Nainoa Holland (“Nai-no-ah,” meaning “protector of children” or “navigator” in Hawaiian) was born and raised on Maui, where...
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Deep Thoughts With Josh: June 2026
Our days are stretching, a few precious minutes at a time, drawing out the twilight hours into a floating blue and gold. The air, cloaked in campfire smoke and infused by the briny sea, sits heavy on freshly-sunned skin. Sand...
New Favorite Person
Kelsey Boyer’s Support Network
“If it wasn’t for my friends knowing the signs and symptoms of a concussion, I would not be standing here today,” Kelsey Boyer says. “My brain was bleeding for two weeks, and my friends caught the signs and took me...
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Sesh Up x Brain Bowl Sessions 2026
Absolute warriors. That’s what I’d call everyone who helped build, hone, and maintain the hand-dug course for this year’s Sesh Up X Brain Bowl Sessions event at Mt. Baker, WA. It rained, it snowed, then rained and snowed again....
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Deep Thoughts with Josh: May 2026
A New Golden Age Much ink has been spilt, breath spent, and binary code… binary coded, regarding the supposed heyday of our beloved pastime. Collective wisdom puts this era in the late 90s and early 2000s. Budgets were phat, pros...
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Westcoast Triple Plank 2026
The Westcoast Triple Plank turned ten years old last weekend. I’m not sure that was ever Marie-France Roy and Alicia Gilmour’s goal when they started it. I’m not sure they ever had a plan for the future of the event....
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Holy Bowly 13
After the first day of this year's Holy Bowly, a good friend asked, “If you had to narrow it down to one word, how would you describe it?” A week later, as we were driving out of Banff, AB, reminiscing...
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Unresort
Retallack Lodge 2026
I didn’t count during my last cold plunge. Leading up to that, I did; with gritted teeth, rushing through the numbers to achieve… what, exactly? The bones in my feet felt like they were breaking, my breath caught in my...
Fly By
AI Proof: Snowboarding in a Super Bowl Commercial
Did you watch the Super Bowl? Maybe just for Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show? Perhaps it was for the advertisements. Did those ads make you want to gamble? Or optimize your life with AI? So many AI ads. It almost felt...
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Mash and Bash 2026
East coasters aren’t known to be nice, but kind. A Sour Patch Kid type beat—first we’re sour, then we’re sweet. Homegrown in upstate New York myself, I can attest to the overall validity of this generalization. I’m reminded of this...
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Natural Selection Finals 2026
“The dream is to run finals in that perfect light,” Travis Rice said. “From 4 until 5:30[p.m.], in the west facing Selector venue, that light is so epic. And we’ve been chasing it…” It was the day after qualifiers at...