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“Mini ramp!” Jesse Burtner calls out. He drops, whips around a berm and pumps left over a skate bowl inspired mound towards a snow sculpted mini ramp with log coping. Gus Warbington follows, launching right off the mound into a...
GATHERING Hana Beaman hadn’t ridden in a snowboard contest since 2013. So why was she here at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to put on a jersey? “It’s the kind of riding I want to do,” she said. “ was the...
I believe that snowboarding can stand for social justice, anti-racism and lead the way to diversifying winter sports and supporting equity in the outdoors. In order to do this, we must understand the relationship between race, space and place. We...
Boardslide Worldwide is a short film featuring Austen Sweetin and friends, presented by Quiksilver. Also starring Griffin Siebert, Taylor Carlton, Rip Zinger, Jesse Grandkoski, Miles Fallon, Bryan Fox, Mathieu Crepel, Jason Robinson, Temple Cummins, Alex Lopez and Max Warbington, it's...
Win a season pass to Mt. Baker Ski Area! Artist Point and Shoot is an amateur photography contest. Here’s how to enter: post a photo of yours to Instagram taken at Mt. Baker during the 2020-21 season, follow and tag...
Swiss shredder Christian "Hitsch" Haller scored the cover of Issue 18.2, and he had no idea it was coming. Photographer Aaron Blatt and Burton Snowboards Global Team Manager Patrick Dodge surprised him with the news (see the video above). Additionally,...
VIEW INTERACTIVE FEATURE “It’s science, but it’s not rocket science.” Gwyn Howat, the CEO of Mt. Baker Ski Area, addressed the crowd. “We’ve been working for two months to get here. Our ability to operate is reliant upon you.” She...
As the least populated state in the USA, there’s plenty of wide open space in Wyoming, and Mark Carter has spent the past couple decades exploring as much of its mountainous terrain as he can. In February 2020, we joined...
In conjunction with his feature interview in Issue 18.2, Austin Smith commissioned Liam Gallagher to make an edit called "T2B." Produced at Timberline Lodge, OR, during the same window within which we shot and conducted his 14-page piece, it's a...
I was talking with Scott Lenhardt about the Glebelands cover of Issue 18.1 and he reminded how slow the chairlifts were back then. Those chairlift rides were just as important as the runs we took down Bromley. It was during...
When we first launched The Snowboarder’s Journal (frequency at the time), we were fortunate to have at the “Creative Dictator” position, my friend and comrade Ari Marcopoulos. For those who don’t know, Ari is an absolute creative juggernaut who emigrated...
“Evolution has provided the human brain with marvelous tools for detecting and resolving fast-moving, clearly visible, small-scale, near-future risks. By the same token, the brain is easily overwhelmed by slow, abstract, large, long-term problems.” —Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and...