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Primordial Energy in Arc'Teryx's Creation Theory
In Creation Theory, the meaning of living and breathing meets the rhythm of creation and athleticism. It’s heady stuff but bare with us for a moment: Beyond the trappings of modern society and well-traveled paths lies each of our individual...
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Out For A Rip in Norway
As seen in Issue 20.2, Jessa Gilbert, Justin Lamoureux, Timmy Taussig, Harry Kearney, Cedric Landy and Matt Bruhns head Out For A Rip in search of spring snowboarding in Norway. Splitboarding above the fjords, they find local character and natural...
Locale
You Know, ’Rado
First published in issue 20.1 of The Snowboarder's Journal. Ain’t it different? When I first stepped in the game Man tried leech on my name Now they wanna act all distant The sounds of London rappers Headie One, AJ Tracey...
Photo and Video Feature
September Street Mission
The ability to snowboard is almost always in Mother Nature's hands. But sometimes us snowboarders just can't wait for the snow to start falling. Justin Norman regularly demonstrates such an impatience with annual street missions starting months before the clouds...
Artifact
WRONG TURN AT POCATELLO
This feature originally appeared in print in Issue 19.4. The last thing you want to see when you’re on a long impromptu road trip at 3 in the morning while limping along in a vehicle that feels like it’s dismantling...
Profile
Classic Dreamer
This feature originally appeared in print in Issue 19.1. It’s a sunny June morning in Bend, OR and the Ponderosa Skatepark is still pretty much empty when Mike Ravelson arrives. He lays a thin blanket down in the grass next...
Event
"It's Tits!" 2022
"It’s Tits!" was more than just a snowboard event—it changed my perspective, and ultimately my life. Over the past couple years, I’ve been yearning for mentorship as an up-and-coming snowboard photographer, but insider knowledge of the snowboard industry hasn’t been...
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...
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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...
Event
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...
Event
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...