Photo Essay
Another Reason to Smile
Summer Snowboarding at Mt. Hood, OR
Event
Red Bull Heavy Metal 2025
"Welcome to the State Capitol grounds,” says St. Paul, MN Mayor Melvin Whitfield Carter III. He’s standing next to Todd Richards and Chris Grenier, two revered, retired pro snowboarders. Melvin is the first Black mayor of the city of St....
Event
Photo and Video Feature
Legendary Banked Slalom 2025
“What kind of wax you got in there?” It was midday Friday, day one of qualifying at Mt. Baker Ski Area’s 36th Legendary Banked Slalom. Josh Dirksen was having a minor wax crisis. I dumped the contents of my tuning...
Interview
Photo Feature
Video Exclusive
Chunkbuster
Despite growing up in Hood River, OR, Hunter Knoll wasn’t a snowboarder from birth. Rather, he was into any and all physical activities including team sports—lacrosse, specifically—and spent a string of winters homeschooling, fishing and camping on the beach in...
Event
The Loon Project
It’s early January with temperatures teetering around 20 degrees Fahrenheit in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Despite these current below-freezing conditions, today has been dubbed a “beach day” by the lot of us here at Loon Mountain Resort for The Loon...
Photo and Video Feature
Video Exclusive
The Outliers 3
The Outliers, a DIY project out of Southeast Alaska released in 2023, surprised everyone—even the riders and filmmakers themselves. It's up to 374,000-and-counting views on YouTube. People love it. There’s something refreshing about a homie flick. Something real and raw....
Event
Snowboy Productions: Lowtide Nights
It's hard to imagine a better way to start your snowboarding season than at a Snowboy Productions event. When the company's head honcho, Krush Kulesza, and his crew construct a park, you can rest assured it'll be put together properly....
Video Exclusive
NEW SNOW PEOPLE
In January, Mary Rand and Blair Habenicht visited photographer Tsutomu Endo in his hometown of Hakuba, Japan. With three decades of exploring the area behind him, Endo has grown into an abstract artist as much as a snowboard photographer. Recently,...
Video Exclusive
ONSEN FOUNTAIN
Japanese legend Shin Biyajima grew up riding in Myoko, north of Nagano, Japan. In January 2024, Eric Jackson joined him there for the biggest storm of the season, as seen in Issue 22.1. From resort snowboarding during a three-foot snowfall...
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Everything You Need at Sun Peaks
What does Sun Peaks have? Everything you need, according to local rider Nayte Brown. With Brett Tippie leading the charge, Brown and fellow Sun Peaks slopestyle hopeful Katie Brayer show Washingtonians Zoe Vernon and Matt Wainhouse around this low-key interior...
Fly By
Sweat Equity in Southeast Alaska
First published in Volume 21, Issue 4 of The Snowboarder's Journal Ryland Bell is on the throttle, but we’re moving slow. Under a canopy of spruce and hemlock, the trail is frozen solid. It’s hard to keep a snow machine...
Event
Snowboy Productions Halo-Halo 2024
Representation matters. Having a more diverse population of riders in our community can lead to more people considering the idea that snowboarding might be something they’d also find fun. When a person sees someone that looks like them doing something...