Validated Parking: Breaking Down the Price of Lift Tickets

A ski resort may seem like a pretty simple operation–build some lifts, maybe a lodge or two, and just add snow—but in reality, even the smallest resorts rely on a complex web of intertwining departments…

100 Day’ers: Micah Lee on Tiny RVs in Japan, Helping Others Love the Mountains, and Snowboarding as a North Star

Micah Lee snowboarding

“Snowboarding has shaped my life and brought me some of my best friends, so why not pass the torch for someone else to experience that and work to share the love with others?”

Arctic Roses: A Photographic Expedition into the Arctic Circle with Matt Georges and a Backpack Full of Film

A look at Georges’ most recent project.

“These glimmers of hope are so important, because it just shows that when you do care and when you do get involved, it can make a huge difference.”

Marie-France Roy talks Arbor’s Legacy Forest, West Coast Triple Plank, Redd Fish Restoration Society, and more.

Walking on Thin Ice: Rafael Pease on the Intersection of Snowboarding, Filmmaking, and Activism

It is with rising tides that conversations surrounding our climate crisis continue to gain popularity. The language of ecological integrity and justice has been absorbed

Over the Border and Back to Banff: The First Annual Rude Girls x Snowboard Mag Board Test.

We put women’s-specific and genderless boards to the test at Sunshine Village.

Watch: 2022 Rome Snowboards x Snowboy Productions Sidehit Seance

Last March, the crafty and conspiring minds of Rome Snowboards and Snowboy Productions gathered in the high forests of Vermont for a cultivation of carving

Watch: Teaser for Fleeting Time, Ben Ferguson’s Two-Year Project

Two years in the making, Ben Ferguson’s movie project with Homestead Collective and Red Bull, Fleeting Time, is premiering this fall, featuring a heavy roster

Clocking In: Lora Bodmer – Owner/Publicist of Deep Communications and Senior Director of Media and PR for Protect Our Winters

Since its inception two years ago, the Natural Selection Tour has appeared multiple times on SportsCenter’s Top 10. It’s been talked about by the New

Watch: The Pitch Sessions Launched at IT’S TITS! Last Year and Returns for 2022

Since its inception, Snowboy Productions’ IT’S TITS! has been an annual gathering place for female snowboarders. Created by Snowboy’s Krush Kulesza alongside Barrett Christy and

Elena Hight on Riding in Alaska, Winning the Tour, and Following What Excites Her

Throughout this year’s Natural Selection Tour, Elena Hight was on one. She took first in Jackson. Second at Baldface. She ripped through challenging conditions in

Interview: Travis Rice On Winning the Yeti Natural Selection 2022 Tour Championship

Travis Rice

For Travis Rice, the Alaskan stop of the Natural Selection Tour—the third and final event of the season—was the continually evolving culmination of years of

The Final Stop of the 2022 Natural Selection Tour Will Decide Both AK and Tour Winners

On Wednesday, April 13th, the final stop of the 2022 NST, the Yeti Natural Selection Alaska, airs on Naturalselectiontour.com. Eight men and four women were

A Look at the 20th Anniversary of Eastern Boarder’s Last Call at Loon Mountain

Miles Fallon at Eastern Boarder's Last Call

Every March since 2000 (minus 2020-21 when the pandemic had other plans), brick and mortar institution Eastern Boarder has brought together a motley collective of

Soy Sauce Nation Stir-Fry is Bringing Together Community at Woodward Tahoe April 6-7, 2022

Soy Sauce Nation'als snowboarders at Mount Hood

Last spring, Soy Sauce Nation, a community catalyzed by Nirvana Ortanez and Andrew “AK” Kelly, brought together API snowboarders from all over the world at

Watch: Sidehit Seance – A Gathering of Boarders at Sugarbush thanks to Rome SDS and Snowboy Productions

Spooky, snowy…the much-anticipated and long-awaited Sidehit Séance appeared out of the ether in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

The Pink Dollar Possy Shines (Per Usual) at Hyland Hills

Pay attention closely to the Possy’s latest video offering, Twinkle. Notice the technical prowess of Casey Pflipsen and Alexis Roland. The unbridled style of Eli

Better Than Level 7: Snowboy Productions Pipelines Goes Down at Mountain High

Mike Yoshida reports from the San Gabriel Mountains.

Finals Day of the Yeti Natural Selection is Tomorrow, Here are the Match Ups and How to Watch

Friday, January 28th twelve riders will drop into the rider’s left side of the Natural Selection course at Jackson Hole for finals day at the

Maggie Leon and Benny Milam Take the Win at Red Bull Heavy Metal

I went to Newfoundland for a semester in college. It was sort of a spur-of-the-moment decision. A semester abroad in the furthest-place-from-home closest to home—because

Risk Maturity: Pat Moore and Baldface’s Annual Gathering to Increase Backcountry Education and Safety

words: Melissa Riitanophotos: Melissa Riitano, Amanda Hankison, and Dustin Lalik Just about a month ago, I had the privilege of attending Risk Maturity, a week-long

Watch: The First Terrain Park Built Exclusively by Women – Take the Rake at Trollhaugen

A look at went down at the first-ever TTR at Trollhaugen, WI.

FABRIC Weaves Together Community On Screen and In Person at World Premiere

Last winter, Robin Van Gyn had a heck of a season. Donning a competition bib for the first time—or in this case, a specially made

What is Possible When Sport is Leveraged as a Vehicle for Change: Watch the trailer for FABRIC

FABRIC is a five-part series that illustrates what’s possible when sport is leveraged as a vehicle to affect fundamental change.

Injury Affects More Than Just Your Body: Laura Rogoski on MENTAL Zine and recovering from injury, both physically and mentally

SLC snowboarder Laura Rogoski is releasing MENTAL and collaborating on an art show in order to share her experience with others.

Glacier boarding: Summer Sixteen with RIDE Snowboards

RIDE Snowboards at Mt. Hood

Legend has it that the snows of Mt. Hood hold magical properties. Much like plants that absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, the omnipresent glacier collects

“The Fourth Phase,” official 2016 trailer from Travis Rice and Red Bull Media House

Travis Rice The Fourth Phase snowboarding trailer

No snowboarder captures the world’s imagination like Travis Rice. His films have given him an unprecedented platform to share the spirit of adventure, and showcase

High Cascade Session Five video, 2016

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The summer may be nearing its end, but up on the glacier there were no signs of the action slowing down. Session 5 hosted the

High Cascade Session Four video, 2016

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The end of Session Four marks the transition into the second half of summer, however snow levels on the Palmer Glacier are holding strong, and

Warp Wave: Aurora Boardealis, official trailer

Warp Wave

From big mountains and deep powder to spring slush and tree riding, this universe is full of opportunity to explore the mountainous sanctuaries that surround

Did you know? 13 ways to score big with the Mountain Collective pass

Mountain Collective

The Mountain Collective is the result of resorts around the world coming together to offer the opportunity to ride a couple days at each for

Raw Japanese snowboarding: W.A.R.U. in Death Returns

What these guys lack in natural snowboarding ability is compensated with disregard for any concept of safety. W.A.R.U. in Death Returns is fucking raw look

2017 snowboard product preview: Live from SIA, day two

We made it through day two of SIA, and we’ve landed back at the same hotel bar, laptops, cameras, chicken wings and cheap beer on

Powder Alert: Mother Nature is about to make your holiday the best one ever… if you live in the West

Kirkwood: 37 inches Squaw Valley: 36 inches Crystal Mountain: 24 inches Snowbird: 18 inches Those were all 24-hour snowfall totals from ski resorts in the

Different perspectives of Dew Tour by photographer Dean Blotto Gray

Dew Tour 2015

[juicebox gallery_id=”255″] Having photographed contests myself, it’s easy to fall into the trap of stationary shooting: finding an angle you like, and staying there. The

Just raw: Nightmare Snowboards presents Last Champions, full movie

Quite honestly, the crew at Nightmare Snowboards doesn’t give a fuck about what other people think. It’s a trait that once permeated the snowboarding community

Rails 2 Riches 2015 at Killington Resort, Vermont recap

Rail 2 Riches

[juicebox gallery_id=”254″] The beer was flowing and the DJ was pumping up the crowd for one of the biggest East Coast rail jams of the

Fear nothing, risk everything: Danny Davis’ Peace Park 2015 full movie

As Jack Mitrani says, snowboarding need events like Peace Park. Too often is fun overshadowed by seriousness and contests when our lifestyle is presented to a mainstream

The Mothership has landed: A story of CAPiTA’s new factory in Austria

CAPiTA The Mothership

On Saturday, November 21st, 2015, CAPiTA held the grand opening the the world’s newest, most advanced snowboard manufacturing facility in the world. The Mothership is

Warp Wave presents A Place Called Kookabunga, full movie

Thank you for watching! The online premiere of Warp Wave’s movie A Place Called Kookabunga has ended, but it is available for purchase on Vimeo On

The Fourth Phase, official trailer from Travis Rice, Brain Farm and Red Bull Media House

The Fourth Phase Travis Rice

When “The Art of FLIGHT” was released in 2011, its scale was unprecedented. Everything involved simply defied logic in the minds of the millions of

Snowboarding reality in the PNW: The Middle/Path Project episode 1

The Middle/Path Project is an exploration into how we exist within our environment. Having spent the last season in the Pacific Northwest, the riders have

Platinum Picks: Seven of 2016’s best snowboard bindings profiled

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Like capacity for abstract thought separates humans from animals, being strapped in distinguishes snowboarding from other boardsports. We’re all for surfing the snow without bindings,

Boys Nite: Ben Bilodeau, Jack Kyle, Max Tokunaga, Andrew Brewer and Seth Hill

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Plenty of videos are made each season on a shoestring budget, while others are made with individual rider buy-ins the size of a down payment on a home. Boys Nite

Three premieres, three cities: A Constant Evolution featuring Mark Landvik

[juicebox gallery_id=”241″] Two nights, three premieres of A Constant Evolution featuring Mark Landvik. Directed and edited by Liam Gallagher of Pathology, The Mad Ones and

From Snow to Surf: SideTracked with Annie Boulanger by Full Moon

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Annie Boulanger has it figured out. Continuously bouncing between between tropical, surf-laden locales and snowy backcountry destinations, the Whistler-based snowboarder is living a life enviable by anyone with a

Snowboard Magazine to premiere A Constant Evolution featuring Mark Landvik in Boulder, Aspen and Bellingham

Mark Landvik

We are excited to unveil the first in a series of short documentaries profiling three of snowboarding’s most prolific riders. Each film is supported by a print

Natural Selections: 6 Top Park Boards for 2016

Calling these snowboards is limiting, but calling them snow, metal, rock, log, plastic and concrete boards is a mouthful. The ‘park’ label doesn’t mean these boards

The Interior Plain Project presents Bloodlines, official trailer

The Interior Plain Project

We all started somewhere. For snowboarders in the Midwest, that start was often in a backyard riding a plastic board or renting dated equipment from

The art of natural riding: Statements, official trailer

Statements Antti Autti

A powder turn is a moment of liberation. The solitude of the backcountry is a sanctuary. It’s just you, your friends and the endless possibilities

Airblaster’s “Side Hit Society” official trailer

This one is going to be good. Watch also: Mini-pipe mayhem: Airblaster’s Board Games 2015 From Airblaster: Join the SIDE HIT SOCIETY today! Travis Parker,

Quick turns and fast times: The 4th Annual Drink Water Rat Race

Drink Water Rat Race 2015 Snowboarding Austin Smith Bryan Fox

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A summer tradition continues: The second annual TEAM SPORTS from RIDE and K2

RIDE K2 Team Sports

[juicebox gallery_id=”215″] words: Tanner McCarty Summer snowboard camp is one of few places where a young snowboard fanatic can have almost guaranteed interaction with their

Invert insanity: High Cascade session one 2015 gallery

High Cascade

[juicebox gallery_id=”213″] Photos by Danny Kern, words by Marc O’Malley Once again, summer is here and that means, once again, some seriously heavy snowboarding is

One epic year: The VonZipper Support Wildlife Tour season edit

VonZipper Support Wildlife Tour

It’s not often that you get the opportunity to hop in a van and travel across the country with your friends. In fact, for most

The need to disconnect: A winter camping expedition with Zeal Optics

Zeal Optics

[juicebox gallery_id=”205″]   It’s raining. As I lay in my down-filled cocoon listening only to the pattering of raindrops and the last murmurs of camp, I

Defining Sustainability: The resort’s responsibility to the environment

Defining sustainability

Originally featured in Snowboard Magazine 11.3: The Primitive Issue Today’s world means business. Literally, everything is a business. The mountains now provide the grounds for

The party never ends: A night with the Wildcats during WSSF in Whistler, BC

Wildcats snowboarding

The Wildcats. It’s a name that has been engraved into snowboarding lore, the chisel then cleaned with cheap beer and a steady flow of vodka. They

The 2015 Tom Sims Retro World Championships: Fast & loose California snowboarding

Tom Sims Retro World Championships

[juicebox gallery_id=”191″]   The Tom Sims Retro World Championships is an ode to an extraordinary man and a throwback to a time in snowboarding when riders dug their

Restoring the Colorado snowboard scene: Love Games 2015

Colorado has struggled to foster a cohesive snowboard scene since the late ‘90s. Contest riders post up in Breck to train for X Games and

Women, concussions, drugs, gender inequality, perseverance & fun: Director Lukas Huffman talks Too Hard

Too Hard

Lukas Huffman used to be on the other side of the lens, dropping cliffs in standout video parts of his own for Kingpin’s Happy Hour

Join us for the Tom Sims Retro World Snowboarding Championships at Boreal, CA

Tom Sims Retro World Snowboarding Championships

There are few places where the likes of Shaun Palmer, Terry Kidwell and Chuck Barfoot will strap in alongside Danny Davis, Eric Messier and Mark McMorris,

A family affair: Ben and Gabe Ferguson win Red Bull Double Pipe’s first ever doubles competition

[juicebox gallery_id=”185″]   Watching the doubles teams take to the Red Bull Double Pipe was an experience. After the event was postponed until Saturday, March

Contest evolution: Chase Josey wins the 2015 Red Bull Double Pipe

Red Bull Double Pipe

[juicebox gallery_id=”184″]   Red Bull Double Pipe effectively redefines the notion of what to expect in a snowboarding contest. Twin halfpipes, separated by a spine with wallrides, rails

For the love of snowboarding: Stance at Baldface Lodge

Stance

Stance is one of the raddest, fastest-growing companies spawned from snow/surf/skate blood. Take one look at their roster of Punks and Poets and you will

Changing lives through snowboarding: The Chill Foundation at the 2015 Burton US Open

Chill Foundation

Snowboarding means something different to all of us, but since 1997, a foundation has used the power of snowboarding to take underserved youth and give them

Snowboarding’s most iconic event: The 2015 Burton US Open halfpipe competition

2015 Burton US Open

While history was made yesterday on the 2015 Burton US Open presented by MINI Slopestyle course, for 33 years the tradition of halfpipe has molded

Yuki Kadono and Jamie Anderson take top slopestyle honors at the 2015 Burton US Open

2015 Burton US Open

March 6th at the 2015 Burton US Open presented by MINI was 100% slopestyle and better conditions could not have been any better for progression. What

Where the soul of snowboarding is alive and well: The 3rd Annual JH Pow Wow

JH Pow Wow

[juicebox gallery_id=”178″]   JH Pow Wow is more than a gathering of the most creative minds of our industry, it is an embodiment of snowboarding’s

Focal Point: Air + Style LA by Gabe L’Heureux

[juicebox gallery_id=”176″]   Air + Style LA was no ordinary snowboarding event, so we didn’t want to cover it that way. We gave Gabe L’Heureux full

Sticking to your guns: A Halldor Helgason interview

Halldor Helgason

Halldor Helgason is among a rare breed of professional snowboarders. In an industry that has become reliant on manufacturing a rider’s image and marketability, Halldor has

An Unexpected Journey: Sage Kotsenburg, middle fingers up

Sage Kotsenburg

Originally featured in Snowboard Mag 11.2: The Transcendent Issue MFU. “Middle Fingers Up to competitive snowboarding.” While this may seem like an unlikely mantra for

2016 snowboard gear preview: Day one products at SIA

2016 snowboard gear

[juicebox gallery_id=”170″]   For most of the snowboarding industry, the Snowsports Industries America, or SIA, Snow Show is the first major look at what the brands have

Defending the gold: Silje Norendal reclaims X Games 2015 women’s slopestyle

Silje Norendal

For the second year in a row, Norwegian Silje Norendal has claimed X Games 2015 women’s slopestyle gold. Coming from behind in her third and

An Unexpected Journey: Breast cancer fighter Megan Pischke is Chasing Sunshine

Chasing Sunshine

Two years ago our friend Megan Pischke was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ironically, for many years leading up to her diagnosis, the former pro snowboarder

The 10th Annual KNOWSHOW: A first look at 2016 snowboard gear

2016 Snowboard Gear

[juicebox gallery_id=”164″] Photos by Kyle Kennedy For most media and retailers, Vancouver’s KNOWSHOW is the first opportunity to get the inside scoop on what’s coming for

Fun with your friends: Dragon’s #WeAreFrameless World Tour | Mt. Bachelor

#WeAreFrameless World Tour

Dragon’s #WeAreFrameless World Tour ended in the best way possible, a turning session with friends at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon. With so many incredible, respected riders

These guys rule: The Helgasons’ NoToBo full movie

NoToBo is the latest creation from the minds of Halldor and Eiki Helgason, Johannes Brenning and a crew of Sage Kotsenburg, Ethan Morgan, Gulli Gudmundsson Kareem

Pow Alert: Huge storms set to hit East and West Coasts

After reading this week’s Pow Alert, you’re going to notice that Mountain Collective resorts like Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows, Mammoth Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Snowbird and Jackson

Taylor Gold and Kelly Clark win the Sprint US Grand Prix at Copper Mountain

Taylor Gold and Kelly Clark win the Sprint US Grand Prix Copper Mountain

[juicebox gallery_id=”160″]   The Sprint US Grand Prix at Copper Mountain marked the beginning of another season for competitive snowboarding. Though it was the first

Terrain parks reimagined: Danny Davis’ Peace Park full movie

Competitive snowboarding does not always have the best reputation among the many riders that participate in the other dimensions of this lifestyle. During its infancy, it was

Full movie – Pathology: A movie about snowboarding and humans

Pathology: A movie about snowboarding and humans

Pathology makes it clear that “We are the creators of our reality.” The traditional format of snowboarding films will always exist. Opening part, closing part,

Natural Selections: The best powder snowboards of 2015

Modern neuroscience tells us the only thing the brain really needs is powder. True to that, these boards not only make riding the good stuff

Oakley’s Snowboarding For Me: Why our history is important

Oakley’s newest film, Snowboarding For Me, played before a captivated crowd in a small Denver, Colorado theater on this past Saturday night. I didn’t know what

Salomon Snowboards presents WEAPONS OF SLASH DESTRUCTION: Bode Merrill

Bode Merrill is the man. If you need any further convincing (which we hope you don’t) go watch his part in Absinthe Films’ Heavy Mental. You

Focal Point: The photography of Gabe L’Heureux

[juicebox gallery_id=”144″]   Gabe L’Heureux is a cinematographer & photographer for Burton, traveling the globe with snowboarding’s elite. Working as a team manager for Shaun White

Keeping metal in snowboarding: Volcom’s Mr. Plant premieres in Denver

[juicebox gallery_id=”141″] All photos by Susie Floros   Last night, Volcom’s newest addition to the Veeco Productions library, Mr. Plant, premiered at the Summit Music

Captured on film: Lib Tech’s Downtown Throwdown in Boston, MA

[juicebox gallery_id=”139″]   Snowboarding event coverage has turned into a contest in itself: Who will be able to shoot the most action photos to throw into a

Salomon Snowboards presents WEAPONS OF SLASH DESTRUCTION: Jed Anderson

Fun fact about Jed Anderson: He snowboards goofy and skates regular. This would explain why, to the untrained eye, it’s so difficult to determine which way

Surf The Snow: Part 1 – Alex Pashley and the resurgence of powder shapes

Alex Pashley ran and finished the Leadville 100, also known as the Race Across The Sky. As Christopher McDougall explains this race in his bestseller

The Interior Plain Project: Berserker Collection short film

In the Midwest, you get called out pretty quickly if you’re doing something that isn’t authentic. There isn’t time to put up with bullshit because

Vote and win in the Whistler Blackcomb Coldfront Online Film Festival

It is no small feat to produce a snowboarding film. To those who have, you know the vision required from the initial concept, the actual filming, then

Focal Point: The photography of Silvano Zeiter

[juicebox gallery_id=”115″] Expand gallery for full experience. There is a good chance you haven’t heard the name Silvano Zeiter, but there is an even greater

Snowboard on the Block 2014: The highlights

[juicebox gallery_id=”114″] Photos: Susie Floros Events like Snowboard on the Block are necessary for the soul of snowboarding. We need a place to gather and

Salomon Snowboards presents WEAPONS OF SLASH DESTRUCTION: Louif Paradis

In the modern world of street snowboarding, few have accomplished what Louif Paradis has. Over 13 years he has produced 13 video parts, each one drawing

Snowboard Magazine Volume 11 release party at evo Seattle video and recap

The Pacific Northwest and evo were the perfect setting for our Volume 11 Issue 1, The Product Collection, release party and photo gallery. Seattle is home

Focal Point: The photography of Ryan Taylor

[juicebox gallery_id=”109″] Please expand gallery for full experience It takes great fortitude to be a photographer in the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The bitter

A Dinosaurs Will Die tribute to the diggers of High Cascade

There are many people that put in the long hours to make the Main Park at High Cascade a reality. But perhaps the most hardest