Photo Essay
Another Reason to Smile
Summer Snowboarding at Mt. Hood, OR
New Favorite Person
Participation Reflects Investment
Editor’s note: Knowing that no one can fully understand the effects of transphobia in action sports better than those directly affected by it, we reached out to trans athlete and activist, Blake Hansen, to conduct this interview. This interview originally...
Event
The Jordan Year | Seshup 2022
mount baker's season send-off jump session... Bottom left: Miles Freelan going front 5 on the step up. Bottom right: Build leader Matt Wainhouse making it look easy. Photos: Jonathan Henry The Mount Baker Seshup was brought to life by a...
Photo and Video Feature
Westcoast Triple Plank 2022
Westcoast Triple Plank is for the children, and the adults too. It’s about inclusive good times in loose Vancouver Island, BC style. It’s about assembling hippies and rippers (hippers?) and heshers, kids and moms and dads, and whoever else wants...
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Holy Bowly 9: Return to Sunshine Village, AB
We’re all tourists, though we may scoff at the more obvious of our kind. Travel, novel surroundings, the siren-song of the open road; every committed snowboarder I’ve met holds these things dear. We’re even tourists at our home hills, excited...
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Mt. Baker Brain Bowl 2022
Only two days into digging the fifth and final Brain Bowl of the season, Max Warbington stood amid a mid-April storm at Mt. Baker, WA wondering if constructing such a course was even plausible given the circumstances. “We’re hunkered down...
Video Exclusive
Under the Sun: A Day at Baker with Zoë Vernon and Hans Mindich
After a wet and cloudy week in Washington State's North Cascades, the sun finally made an appearance at Mt. Baker. We joined Zoë Vernon and Hans Mindnich as they diverged from the tracked ski area in search of fresh, untouched...
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PacWest Banked Slalom: Community, Culture and Legacy at Summit East
“This place is home, and I love it up here,” Marcel Dolak says. His voice cracks a bit. He’s feeling emotional, and it shows. He truly does love it here, in a mix of snow and rain, on the Rampart...
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Love Games 2022
Standing at roughly 11,900 feet above sea level near Loveland Pass, the sun beats down heavily through a brilliant blue Colorado sky. Chad Otterstrom is on Kirk Teare’s tail beelining over a small strip of snow towards a hesh quarterpipe...
Culture
Conversations with Yuriy: A Snowboarder in Ukraine
Wet gear hangs above the wood-stove where it can dry. Today’s objective in the mountains was challenging so we take stock. We are safe. We are home. Our family and friends know this too. This home of ours isn’t fancy,...
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Photo and Video Feature
Crazy Energy: Smash Life 10 at Lost Trail Ski Resort
Lost Trail is one of the last great community-oriented ski areas in the Rocky Mountains. It’s the kind of place where stickers coat every piece of metal in sight, and management is cool with that. Where the parking lot fills...
Video Exclusive
We're Going to Find it: Hot Dogging with Patrick McCarthy
Patrick "Sarge" McCarthy is pure stoke. We caught up with him for a day at Mt. Baker hoping to channel that Sarge energy, and it worked. We weren't sure what we would find up high, but were pleasantly surprised by...
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Uplifting Our Community
It’s mid-afternoon on a late February day at Mt. Baker, WA, and eight-year-old Ohana Frierott is charging her way towards an inbounds gap known as “Shoot the Moon.” Mary Rand is hot on Ohana’s trail with her phone in hand,...