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Hints of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” took over the spectator corral as finalist Blake Moller stood atop Revelstoke Mountain Resort’s Montana Bowl, preparing for the 97th and final run of the 2025 Yeti Natural Selection. Fellow NST Rookie Ståle Sandbech had...
What are snowboarders to do when snowfall totals drop to record lows at certain elevations? Perhaps they'll simply have to go higher into the mountains than they were previously used to. They'll have to work harder than before for their...
Travis Rice seems calm. Maybe a bit tired but not overwhelmed by logistics. That’s a big feat, considering all that it takes to make the Natural Selection Snow event run smoothly in the Revelstoke Mountain Resort backcountry. Travis is here...
A sign of a job well done: Liam Griffin being carried off the helipad at Selkirk Tangiers, just outside Revelstoke, BC, by Travis Rice, Sage Kotsenburg, Nils Mindnich and Jared Elston. Photo: Colin Wiseman This article was first published in...
"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....
“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...
On the third day of Snowboy Production’s inaugural event, The Orange Grove, 20 soggy snowboarders huddled around a makeshift propane fireplace beneath a sagging canopy tent in Kingvale, CA. Above them, a fresh, transition-friendly rail garden. The lineup for the...
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...
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...
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....