Photo Essay
Another Reason to Smile
Summer Snowboarding at Mt. Hood, OR
Yodel
Full Circle
Words Nick Russell A wise man once told me that if you do something long enough, you’ll eventually meet your heroes. The snowboard cosmos has a special tradition rooted in mentorship and guiding younger generations in the mountains. As snowboarders,...
Event
WestCoast Triple Plank 2023
Mount Washington, for me, is as nostalgic as it gets. It’s where I first felt gravity take hold, on skis, at age 2; where I first turned sideways at age 12; where I logged my first 100-day season, washing dishes...
Interactive Feature
Mt. Baker 2022-2023
View Feature The Jetstream does what the Jetstream does. I try not to subscribe to any pre-season ponderings when it comes to weather. Heck, I don’t trust a forecast more than 24 hours out, most of the time. Because we...
Event
The PacWest Pinball
This year’s PacWest Banked Slalom was fast. The first third of the course was your only real chance to take in the scenery; five medium-tight turns granted passage to the rest of the course, meandering under the chairlift and giving...
Fly By
Pairing Well with Keefer Lake Lodge
“This is the strongest, but slowest, group that I’ve ever guided,” Guillame Crepault says. Strapped up, can we call that a backside compliment? Anyways, I can’t help but laugh at G’s remark. He’s been guiding our crew for the past...
Interview
Photo and Video Feature
Chasing Unicorns with Travis Rice
Travis Rice had a good month. He won his opening round Duel with Red Gerard in the Wyoming backcountry on the 2023 Natural Selection Tour (NST), then went to the first on-site stop of the Tour with Selkirk-Tangiers heli at...
Event
Mash and Bash 2023
“Do you think I should go fix that tree?” The questioning rider points towards the leaning pine situated next to the wallride. It’s tilted after he just ran into it, but he wasn’t the first do so, nor will he...
Event
Sidehit Séance at Waterville Valley
Sparse clouds are moving quickly overhead at New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley Resort. Roughly 18 inches of snow fell here a few days ago and more from the west is headed this way. But right now, conditions on the mountain feel...
Video Exclusive
Ryland Bell's 2023 Full Part from Haines, AK
What Ryland Bell calls "a few good days in Haines" we might call the big mountain part of the year. Watch Ryland go mental this past spring in the Chilkat Mountains of Southeast Alaska that he calls home. And if...
Event
Speaking Truth at the Arc’teryx Backcountry Academy
It’s 2 p.m. on a cold, overcast Saturday afternoon. We’re in the Blackcomb, BC backcountry, and we’re talking about mental health. “It’s important to be ok with your shortcomings,” Julia Niles says. “To love ourselves for our imperfections.” She’s our...
Fly By
See What Lu Sees
First published in Volume 20, Issue 3 of The Snowboarder's Journal Luis Medearis had never tried snowboarding before he started filming it in 2020. The former all-conference shooting guard had just graduated from William Jessup University near Sacramento, CA, with...