Photo Essay
Another Reason to Smile
Summer Snowboarding at Mt. Hood, OR
Interview
"It Sounds Pretty Stupid"
French photographer Jérôme Tanon is an anomaly. In a digital world, the 30-year-old Annecy resident keeps it analog. He chooses to undertake the time-consuming (and expensive) process of shooting, developing, and printing his work the old-fashioned way on film. Then,...
Review
A Free Art Form
“We spent the first few months of the season at my house in Nelson, just driving around in Austen’s truck,” Justin Hostynek said. He was on the stage and on the mic at the Siff Cinema Uptown for the Seattle...
News
We’ve Always Been The Snowboarder’s Journal
Change is the only constant and frequencies are in perpetual oscillation. In 2001 When Jeff and Jessie Lu Galbraith, Chris Brunkhart, Jamie Lynn, Ari Marcopoulos and a host of co-conspirators came together to create the first issue of frequency The...
Profile
“I’m Not a Company”
Top Image Nick Gannaway traces an outline. Photo: Toby Grubb “Woah, this thing rides crazy!” When Jesse Loomis dusted off and rode his old Burton Elite back in 2008 he rediscovered a special feeling. Pointing all 150 centimeters down a...
Fly By
Pre-Season Pyroclastination
ABOVE Much of our early season hiking takes place over rock and dirt, generating a moment of disbelief with the fast transition from bare ground to mid-thigh snow. Ben Ferguson at the transition zone. Central Oregon has a unique mountain...
Event
Intuitive Flow
View Photo essay “Winning’s cool, but that’s not the point, just like in life… When you can come and have a good time and leave with a smile on your face even when you didn’t win, then that’s a good...
Notes
Fun With Stars
In western astrology, there’s this concept called “Saturn return.” The basic idea is that it takes Saturn 29.5 years to orbit the sun. When Saturn aligns to just that same degree as the day you were born, you pass from...
Memoriam
GARRY PENDYGRASSE
“There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep...