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One very confused cop in Buffalo, New York and an exhausted crew at the end of a long rail mission. We had started this trip flying into Chicago and then proceeded to book a trip straight to Buffalo, NY since we heard they had snow. Another trip booked with no plans. The Chicago portion had been so successful and fun that we wanted to keep the energy going.

Buffalo ended up playing a big part in the True Life movie. JP put down the infamous red kinked rail and Nate had gapped into a crazy kinked rail. Snowboarding was being pushed, and I was lucky enough to be there to witness it. This is at the end of the trip when the crew had jumped a fence to session a snow covered skate park. The sheriff ended up just giving us a warning and sending us on our way, probably still trying to figure out why you would fly out from Utah to snowboard the streets of New York.

From left to right is Mack Dawg, Nate Bozung, JP Walker and Brandon Bybee. For the camera nerds, it was shot on a Contax 645 medium format camera with Agfa film.

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This month, we take a dive into the archives of Rob Mathis. Few photographers have dedicated more days to this craft, logging countless rolls of film, sleepless nights, and traveling the world with some of the most dignified riders in snowboarding. Among them: the Forum 8. This iconic group, consisting of Peter Line, Jeremy Jones, JP Walker, Bjorn Lienes, Joni Malmi, Chris Dufficy, Wille Yli-Luoma and Devun Walsh, led a freestyle revolution that would launch snowboarding into the hearts and minds of people around the world. These candid moments from a bygone time in our culture capture a movement in its infancy, and serve as a reminder that their influence is still felt to this day.


Those Days is a new, weekly series from Snowboard Mag that gives photographers a platform to share some of the most memorable moments from their careers. Each month, we give a different photographer the platform to share photos that spur feelings of nostalgia, triumph, pain, happiness; anything with a story they want to tell. Our culture’s history is vast and full of these special, fleeting instants in time. Those Days is here to bring them to you.