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When one door closes, another opens. It’s no surprise that this is the case for YES snowboards, after Jp Solberg, Romain De Marchi and DCP were dropped from Burton they came together to create their own brand with a different message. With the boards manufactured at Nidecker, they are already on their way to having [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Overcast with hardpacked groomers to a mixture of conditions. Setup: I rode the Ride Crush with Ride Bandita bindings and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: Easy rocker to ride…not insane rocker, but mellow and easy to cruise with. Size: 155cm Weight: lighter than average Flex: The crush had [...]

Straight from Lima is some shayboarder.com representation going on. It involes the cops, skulls, presidential palaces and lots of fun. Justin who runs comclovin.com is on his vacation and took along some stickers for the ride…unfortunately the cops weren’t a fan of shayboarder stickers so he had to improvise. Gotta give the guy credit for [...]

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet and ride with Vancity Allie during my visit to Whistler, BC.  Allie does an amazing blog on Vancouver living, snowboarder with awesome videos, photographs to die for and if you are a fan of Twilight, she’s got the stage covered!   It’s rad to meet fellow [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Cold weather on hardpacked groomers with winds. It was overcast with flat light most of the day. Setup: I rode the Capita Green Machine FK with Union Forces and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: It is based off the Indoor Survival, I liked the Indoor Survival so this [...]

Oakley continues their goggle line for 2009-2010 as well as their signature series of goggles based around pro riders and their continuation into softgoods for the die hard Oakley lovers.   Here’s a look at some of their signature goggles and softgoods, it’s only just the beginning for Oakley. Gretchen Bleiler A-frame Signature Series Danny [...]

Location: Steamboat, Colorado (and 1 run at Canyons, UT) Snow Conditions: Overcast with hardpacked groomers to new snow on runs Setup: I rode the GNU agro bindings with the Automaton Time Fighter and my Rome Vamp size 8 boots. Time to set up the binding: I borrowed these bindings so I set them up myself, [...]

It’s coming up on seven years since I first saw Afterbang and subsequently purchased it. Since then I’ve acquired the full collection of Robotfood films: Afterbang, Lame and Afterlame. In those seven years, they’ve been played hundreds of times in my dvd, friends dvd players, laptop on vacation and it’s quite frankly coming to an [...]

Tj has been quite a busy man and his recent trip to the Grenade Games 5 in Whistler resulted in a win for his balls to the wall approach to halfpipe riding. Check out his Snowboard Realms episode of the event, up close and personal. There’s some great footage of Lucas Magoon during the Big [...]

If there’s ever a depressing sad day in Colorado, it’s when Loveland closes.  There is so much snow and for the last two seasons closing day at Loveland has been a powder day.  We got 3 inches of new snow today to enjoy.  We also had fun BBQing and hanging out. Today’s crew was Lauren, [...]