Photo and Video Feature
TRIO SONIC
Trio Sonic is a convergence of boarders who hail from Northwest Washington state. Austen Sweetin, Zoe Vernon and Jacqui Shaffer spend their winter months caressed in the pocket of the catcher's mitt that is Mt Baker. They chase each other...
Event
Fill the Fridge
“People have said building in here is a challenge,” Krush Kulesza said as he looked toward the terrain park that he worked through the night to construct indoors at Big Snow American Dream. This is the third time I’ve visited...
Interview
Spencer O’Brien
First published in Volume 20, Issue 2 of The Snowboarder's Journal "If he comes back to me, I have to take him home.” Spencer O’Brien looked hesitantly at a pile of puppies up the back hill of Alaska Heliskiing’s compound...
Event
Soy Sauce Nation: Stir Fry East
It was noon in New Jersey and roughly 70 degrees outside, a typical summer day in The Garden State. But inside Big Snow, the indoor slope located within the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford, it was full-on wintertime. As...
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...