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A white ribbon of snow stretches along downtown Wenatchee, WA’s Orondo Street, with four rail features set up throughout. A few hundred people buzz around the bottom of the strip, enjoying regionally brewed beers and live music on this clear,...
Last March, we spent a few days with Temple Cummins and Alex Lopez at Temple's home hill of Hurricane Ridge on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. It was part of a feature story in Issue 16.4 and here's the video of...
Proximity to chairlifts, quality of terrain and an enthusiastic community to share it all with—these are some pretty important factors in determining the best places to live as a snowboarder. For those about to set off to college, they might...
“I actually wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for Sun Valley,” Matt Wainhouse says as we pack our boards into the bed of his truck in Skykomish, WA. Matt, Justin Norman and I are Idaho bound, headed to the Gem...
Come springtime, Jeremy Jones refers to extended campouts and broad explorations as his “Super Bowl.” Yet this coliseum is far grander. It bursts thousands of feet high and holds abundant alpine bowls. There are no screaming fans, no beer commercials,...
Forrest Burki and Doran Laybourn linked for a season in Colorado. Where Would We Be Without Our Friends is the result.
Win a season pass to Mt Baker Ski Area! Here’s how: post a photo of yours to Instagram taken at Mt Baker during the 2018-19 season, follow and tag @thesnowboardersjournal, @therealmtbakerskiarea, and use the hashtag #artistpointandshoot. We’ll post all pictures...
Thump, thump, thump. Ryland Bell punches into a near-vertical wall to claw his way up a steep, undulating face of chutes and spines. Thump, thump, thump. Kael Martin kicks steps toward a closeout air below a Seussian stack of ribbed...
As seen in Issue 16.2, we accompanied Ryland Bell, Kael Martin, Andrew Irwin and Chris Galvin to Sochi, Russia to ride Russian steeps at Rosa Khutor and beyond. It turned into a 16-page feature and this eight-minute edit, featuring the...
Blair Habenicht, Mary Rand and friends go on a mid-April powder quest and find what they're looking for near New Denver, BC. A The Snowboarder's Journal original production, based on "There Will Be Snow," featured in Issue 16.3. Presented by...
Video: Jann Eberharter In the spring of 2014, I went snow camping with Josh Dirksen up on South Sister, right near his home in Bend, OR. There, I learned that Dirksen was driven. He hiked all day on his splitboard,...