Event
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...
Interview
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...
Photo and Video Feature
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...
Event
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...
Video Exclusive
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...
Photo and Video Feature
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...
Event
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....
Event
Rails & Ales 2019
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,...
Video Exclusive
You Can't Capture That
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...
Fly By
Between Boise and Bogus Basin
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...
Photo Feature
True Love in Sun Valley, ID
“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...