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Under the Sun: A Day at Baker with Zoë Vernon and Hans Mindich
After a wet and cloudy week in Washington State's North Cascades, the sun finally made an appearance at Mt. Baker. We joined Zoë Vernon and Hans Mindnich as they diverged from the tracked ski area in search of fresh, untouched...
Event
PacWest Banked Slalom: Community, Culture and Legacy at Summit East
“This place is home, and I love it up here,” Marcel Dolak says. His voice cracks a bit. He’s feeling emotional, and it shows. He truly does love it here, in a mix of snow and rain, on the Rampart...
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Love Games 2022
Standing at roughly 11,900 feet above sea level near Loveland Pass, the sun beats down heavily through a brilliant blue Colorado sky. Chad Otterstrom is on Kirk Teare’s tail beelining over a small strip of snow towards a hesh quarterpipe...
Culture
Conversations with Yuriy: A Snowboarder in Ukraine
Wet gear hangs above the wood-stove where it can dry. Today’s objective in the mountains was challenging so we take stock. We are safe. We are home. Our family and friends know this too. This home of ours isn’t fancy,...
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Photo and Video Feature
Crazy Energy: Smash Life 10 at Lost Trail Ski Resort
Lost Trail is one of the last great community-oriented ski areas in the Rocky Mountains. It’s the kind of place where stickers coat every piece of metal in sight, and management is cool with that. Where the parking lot fills...
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We're Going to Find it: Hot Dogging with Patrick McCarthy
Patrick "Sarge" McCarthy is pure stoke. We caught up with him for a day at Mt. Baker hoping to channel that Sarge energy, and it worked. We weren't sure what we would find up high, but were pleasantly surprised by...
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Uplifting Our Community
It’s mid-afternoon on a late February day at Mt. Baker, WA, and eight-year-old Ohana Frierott is charging her way towards an inbounds gap known as “Shoot the Moon.” Mary Rand is hot on Ohana’s trail with her phone in hand,...
Interview
Finding Fat Albert
This feature interview with Russell Winfield was first published in The Snowboarder’s Journal Issue 9.1. In the early ’90s, a lot of money was being tossed around in the snowboard world. An unprecedented number of riders were given pro models...
Locale
A Strong Force at Gostlin Keefer Lake Lodge
“I’m picking up Hoth vibes,” I jest to my copilot, videographer Colby Mesick, as we trek eastwards through a blizzard engulfing Canada’s Crowsnest Highway. A cheeky reference to Star Wars’ iconic wintry planet is astronomically cliché in these snowy circumstances,...
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Camped in the BC Backcountry for Fabric
Robin Van Gyn, Estelle Pensiero, Jessa Gilbert and Irie Smith went on a five-day snow camping and splitboarding mission in the Baldface Valhalla tenure while shooting for "Fabric." In this exclusive trip-based edit gleaned from Van Gyn's five-part series, they...
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A Great Separator
“The course was savagery, to put it mildly,” Travis Rice said. Not one to mince words, Travis was visibly relieved, sitting on a snowmobile next to the “Temple of Stoke” start shack atop Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s Natural Selection Tour...
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Charging with Sarge: Patrick McCarthy at Mt. Baker, WA
Patrick McCarthy, also known as "Sarge," is a mainstay at Mt. Baker, WA. His extensive knowledge of the area's terrain--especially its best backcountry booter spots--has been honed through riding Baker for over two decades. Now in his 40s, Pat is...