Photo Essay
Another Reason to Smile
Summer Snowboarding at Mt. Hood, OR
Photo Feature
COVERED: One Day with Nico Müller
The range of emotions in Alaska runs high. I was fresh off a two week camping expedition in the Yukon, more than a little sour and soggy from getting skunked with bad conditions, no sun and was severely in need...
Giveaway
Video Exclusive
The Hillside Project at Island Lake Lodge
In early January of 2017, Salomon Snowboards took Wolle Nyvelt, Desiree Melancon, Nils Mindnich and Annie Boulanger to Island Lake Lodge, BC, to ride their new Hillside Project board line. They scored piles of powder and put the Nyvelt-designed sleds...
Profile
Twenty Years of Snowboy Productions
Snowboy Productions is a bit like fine wine—at least in the sense that it’s gotten better with age. Back in February 1997, Snowboy’s founder Krush Kulesza was asked to put together a snowboard competition at Mt. Spokane, WA. Despite having...
Video Exclusive
Austen Sweetin and All The Things
In conjunction with his print feature in Issue 15.1, this is Austen Sweetin and All The Things, a The Snowboarder's Journal exclusive video presentation. In celebration of Austen's feature profile and video, we have partnered with Zeal Optics to give...
Column
Dr. Jacqui, DPT
Dr. Jacqui, DPT is a new monthly column where former pro snowboarder and Doctor of Physical Therapy Jacqui Berg offers advice for snowboard-specific training and dealing with injuries. For her first entry she’s provided some key preseason training tips and...
Profile
54 Peaks in 138 Days
ABOVE "This was on Wetterhorn Peak (14,016 feet) in the San Juans. The rider is John Maudsley. We just met each other a couple miles before this point, both of us were going solo for the same line. I told...
Event
TURBODOJO - SEATTLE PREMIERE
After a few dry months in the Pacific Northwest, Mother Nature has flipped the switch. This week it snowed upwards of 10 inches at Mt. Hood, OR, and western Washington is wet once again. To match last night’s rain in...
News
Photo and Video Feature
The Coal Pad Grows in Glacier, WA
The Coal Pad continues to grow. About two weeks ago we saw the final pour in phase two of the expansion plans. The new section more than doubles the size of the park and sets up the rest of the...
Fly By
SHRED Foundation
above Peace signs and smiles during a SHRED Foundation gathering in upstate New York. In 2005, Danny Hairston was working as a youth development leader in a Brooklyn high school where he directed violence-prevention programs for at-risk teenagers. One day,...
Photo Feature
The Other Side of Timberline
Tick. Tock. Digital or analog, clocks always move slow when you’re hungry. But two minutes is almost up, meaning my ramen is nearly ready. Steam rises from the pot and brings with it the smell of cheap, starchy noodles—a delicacy...
Event
Photo and Video Feature
Rat Race 2017
“It’s a double, triple, double-double,” I think, Josh Dirksen said. “Or maybe a quad.” It was the evening of July 11 in Government Camp, OR. He was describing the whoops. Everyone was talking about the whoops. The hats for the...
Event
Mt. Baker Slush Cup 2017
“They usually set up jumps at the end of the pond, not in the middle of it. Where are we even supposed to land?” The random skier standing next to me atop the drop-in point asks me this like I...