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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ojo Fest 2023
A storm rolled through eastern Canada last weekend, leaving behind roughly six inches of fresh snow in Montreal. It couldn’t have come at a better time. On Saturday morning the Dillon Ojo Snowpark, a free-to-ride terrain park located downtown at...
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The Outliers
When was the last time you saw an Alaskan snowboard film? Sure, we get our annual doses of AK timelines from those with the means or the enterprise to make it happen in the 49th state. But to find purely...
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Haines Heliboarding and the Story of SeanDog Brownell
In spring of 2022, we partnered with Smartwool and panicked up to Haines, Alaska to take advantage of a brief weather window with SeanDog Brownell's Alaska Heliskiing. "Made Sure We Made It" accompanies the feature story in Issue 20.3 and...
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Mt. Baker Opening 2022
View Interactive Feature It’s been at least six months since many folks in northwest Washington took their last turns on snow, and while that sure seems like a long time ago, the hiatus makes it all the sweeter. The fickleness...
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Dirksen Derby 15
Volcanoes create their own energy. Literally, of course—geothermal power is one of the cleanest (and in many places untapped) energy sources available in this world. Then there’s the tales of Lemurian societies living under California’s Mt Shasta, a portal to...
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The A-Rob Plant a Seed Project
Presented by K2 The A-Rob Plant a Seed Project is a non-profit organization to help underprivileged children enjoy the mountains through snowboarding at Whitefish Mountain Resort, MT. Aaron Robinson was an inspirational up-and-coming rider from Montana who tragically passed away...