They say there are no friends of powder days but some of my personal best days of snowboarding have been shared with friends regardless of powder, groomers or ice. Having friends on the mountain can make your tricks more dialed, your laughs louder and your chairlift rides much more fun. They bring out the best [...]
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If you ride in the northwest, there’s only one race that matters in snowboarding…it’s not the olympics, it’s not the grand prix or the dew tour…it’s a little race called the Legendary Banked Slalom out of Mt Baker in Washington. It defines freeriders and it’s a true race of snowboarders of all ages.
I’ve been watching [...]
Known as the biggest little company in America, Fuel Clothing was on hand at SIA to show off their 2010-2011 line of clothing and outerwear from brights to basics, prints to solids.
It was my first time to see the outerwear company and each time I walked by them on a way to an appointment, I [...]
What a long week it’s been, SIA and then the on-snow, then the death cough…well I’m finally getting back to blog business and thinking about the on-snow demos, writing the reviews up and getting ready to post them starting next week.
SIA is really the time to see all the products but I always wait till [...]
Union has begun it’s sixth year of bringing bindings focused around rider driven performance, no bells & whistles just stellar looks that ride solid. For 2010-2011, they have listened to riders wanting new toe straps with two new toe straps designed to grip the boot better. The Flite, DLX and women’s cadet features the toe [...]
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As one of the few snowboard companies with their own factory building snowboards in the United States, Signal Snowboards continues to build boards based around the fun factor. From their insanely soft park rocker to their reverse camber omni, they have rocker boards for a variety of riders but also continue to build traditional camber [...]
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