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If you haven’t made it to Whistler during the Telus Festival you are truly missing out.  It’s my favorite festival and every year I make the trek out to spend a weekend to a week in Whistler just to be a part of it.  This year the Telus Festival expands and ends with the Grenade [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Overcast with hardpacked groomers. Setup: I rode the O-matic Sweet with Technine Nines and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: Probably the best graphics I have seen and just a good around board. Size: 158cm Weight: average Flex: All around the flex was midway between stiff and soft which [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Overcast with hardpacked groomers. Setup: I rode the Arbor Coda with Union Forces and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: My friend Mike designed the graphics so I hope it rides well. Size: 158cm Weight: average Flex: I was surprised at the Coda’s flex, I was expecting more torsional [...]

The last and final day of shredding at Stevens Pass for Board Insiders.  3 days of riding, 3 boards a day and a total of 9 reviews of 2009-2010 boards.   The experience was amazing, riding my old mountain and riding with people from all different levels, experiences and styles.   It’s been snowing non-stop [...]

I’m still on Colorado time, which means I go to bed early and I wake up early for Washington. I’ve been lucky to stay in Skykomish, just down the road from where Johan has a cabin and I could poach his kids Skull Mountain Terrain Park but the WA snow is definitely pushing my riding [...]

Last summer I thought to myself how great it would be to visit Mervin Manufacturing during one of my visits back to Washington. But a tour inside Lib Tech is hard to come by so it came down to one man…Norm. He wasn’t able to be my tour guide but he put me in touch [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Bluebird with hardpacked groomers to a mixture of conditions. Setup: I rode the Union Forces with a variety of snowboards and my Rome Vamp size 8 boots. Time to set up the binding: Average Fit: My Rome vamps fit nicely into the Forces heelcup and the only big adjustment is [...]

The big reason I came out to Washington was to come join the Board Insiders team for reviewing some boards.  Board Insiders is a new website coming out that features board reviews and videos of each board by riders you get to know.  I joined in a couple months ago and at SIA met the [...]

So far I’ve been really lucky in Washington.  Since I don’t have a vehicle that can handle snow while I’m in town I’ve been really good at carpooling and hitching rides.  I’m going green in Washington.   I talked to Gorio from evo and the original plan was to ride Sunday, waking up at 7am. [...]

It was luck that my WA trip was timed perfectly with the Holy Oly.  I’ve heard about it for years and wished I had the chance to go but it never worked out until this year.   Friday night I flew into Seattle, crashed on Garv’s couch and carpooled up to the Summit at Snoqualmie [...]