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My People
Nelson, BC with Austin Smith, Mary Rand, Ben Poechman & Friends
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“FUCC CITY” Full Video with Exclusive Interview
Low Pressure and More Fun with East Bumfucc
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Red Bull Recharged 2019
“It’s not that I’m tired of competing, it’s the format,” Ben Ferguson says. After countless contest circuits and even an Olympic debut in Pyeongchang last year, Ben's just grown tired of running the same old routine. “I’m not too hyped...
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Firetruck to Alaska with Austin Smith
In 2014 my brother bought a half-converted Firetruck on eBay with plans to complete the process of making it a house on wheels. He and my Dad flew to Illinois to drive the truck back to Oregon together. During the...
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2018-19 Mt. Baker Season Recap
View interactive Feature One-and-a-half hours: How long it takes to drive from Bellingham, WA to the Mt. Baker Ski Area via Highway 542. Ten minutes: The amount of time to load a chairlift and ride to the top of a...
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Westcoast Triple Plank
“This is probably the most wetsuits I’ve ever seen drying out in this parking lot,” Arran said. He’d just pulled up beside me at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island, BC. My suit was already spread out atop my van as...
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3rd Annual Last Ditch Effort
Unpredictable would be an understatement in describing Washington’s springtime weather patterns. April skies are known to bring rain, sleet, snow, sun, and sometimes even flying pigs to the Evergreen State. I haven’t personally witnessed the latter, yet we saw all...
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Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge 2019
“I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain” – Duke Kahanamoku These words, spoken by the father of modern surfing, are bewildering in their prescience considering this man was born in Hawaii in 1890. It’s an indication of...
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Mark McMorris
It’s a sunny March afternoon at Mt Seymour on Vancouver, BC’s north shore. Although Mark McMorris said he wasn’t going to ride today, he’s just finished a few slushy park laps with Mikkel Bang. Mark simply loves to snowboard and...
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Coincidental Connections
It’s April 1, 2019. Craig Kelly would’ve turned 53 today. When our crew woke up at Island Lake Lodge this morning, two eagles sat perched in a tree just outside our door. Now, as the group hikes up to a...
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20th Annual Nate Chute Classic
In August 1999, a talented young snowboarder named Nate Chute unexpectedly took his own life at the age of 18. Nate’s death sent an avalanche of grief over his hometown of Whitefish, MT, yet the response from his friends and...
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Mt Baker Splitfest 2019
The 2019 Mount Baker Splitfest, the biggest splitboard gathering in the world, went off with sunny skies and soft snow in Cascadia. Join the Spark R&D crew as they tour the Baker backcountry alongside a growing splitboard community. Spark R&D...
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Beyond the Ropes at Mission Ridge
“I’ve ridden through here before, but it’s never filled in deep enough to jump off those hits,” Robbie Hutton says. We’re looking at our tracks in Mission Peaks, a backcountry zone just outside the boundary lines of Mission Ridge Ski...
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Ash & Steel - Snowboy Productions x Carinthia at Mt. Snow
Carinthia Parks at Mt. Snow has one of the most creative and hardworking park crews on the east coast. By putting them together with Krush Kulesza and the Snowboy Productions crew, great things were bound to happen. And they did....