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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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
First published in Issue 20.4 of The Snowboarder's Journal Nobody knows me for this and there’s hardly any footage of it, but when I was younger, I used to hurt myself a lot,” Scott Stevens says. “I would chuck. I...
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...
First published in Volume 21, Issue 3 of The Snowboarder's Journal There’s a scene in the 1954 musical White Christmas in which the four main characters are on a train to Vermont and they burst into song spontaneously about how...
First published in Volume 21, Issue 4 of The Snowboarder's Journal James Johnson learned to snowboard at Eaglecrest just outside Juneau, AK. Snowboarding was it for him early on. Mark Landvik was in the crew then, too. As Lando went...
A lotta boarders and a lotta boarding. Saturday at Seshup x Brain Bowl gathering in the Mt. Baker, WA backcountry. Sometimes it all works out better than you can imagine. Such was the case this past weekend as the Seshup...
There was powder on the nose of my snowboard as I sat on the Great Divide Chair at Sunshine Village, AB. I was headed back to the Holy Bowly after ripping a new-to-me zone in incredible conditions for the first...
How do you get 100 snowboarders to build a banked slalom course in the rain? Hook them up with a hip jump, for starters. Add the promise of surf, skate and a heck of a party on the west coast...