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Tuesdays are the day that I can spend the morning doing the daily blog for the mountain which is great because it means waking up to the chairlift and usually I get to enjoy some turns by myself barely any people on the slopes. Today the weather didn’t look like it’d cooperate, another socked in [...]

Remind continues to bring custom orthotics to riders around the world, so that less pain is endured on the slopes and more freedom to make your feet comfortable each turn of the day.  Based out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming with a crew of riders like Travis Rice, Bryan Iguchi and Mark Carter rocking them, Remind [...]

Location: Winter Park, Colorado Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to bumpy to icy conditions on the mountain, flat-light riding conditions. Setup: I rode the Ride Bandita bindings on the Stepchild Salary Man with my Vans Veil Boots size 8. Time to set up the binding: These bindings require effort to make sure they are adjusted properly before [...]

The crew at 686 are offering up some of their best limited edition New Balance gear and it’s time to announce two fun giveaways starting today that we’ll be doing with them.  The first giveaway is to win brand new Limited Edition Snowboard Boots from 686xNew Balance for two lucky winners and the second giveaway [...]

I’ve heard about Ride Shakedown for years but the logistics of making it to eastern canada to attend the contest was very unlikely, luckily this year Ride Shakedown is expanding to the United States and will be this weekend in Washington State at Summit at Snoqualmie! It’s perfect timing for me because a cancelled trip [...]

It’s been a tough winter to wake up early where there is no new snowfall on the mountain but that also means weekends are spent getting stuff done before I head up for the day.  Today I had time to wax and scrape my boards which was much needed with the slushy slow snow on [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy conditions on the mountain, flat-light riding conditions. Setup: I rode the YES Great Dudes with Union Flite bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 154cm. First Impression: Definitely the more playful YES board over the asym I rode last year from YES. Weight: average Flex: [...]

It was another warm sunny slushy day on the mountain so I took my morning to run errands in town before heading up to the slopes.  The park was calling my name and even though I was riding alone, I wanted to step up my riding today. I was lucky to catch up with Sonny [...]

Unity Snowboards is one of those snowboard companies building and riding boards in the US and based out of Silverthorne, Colorado they have  a handful of mountains outside their backdoor.  They’ve grown their line from freeride to park and continue to advance each of their models over the years.  Unity is very much the small [...]

Welcome to the world of Roxy, where women rip and design the boards that other women ride. It’s a new generation of riders, designers and a factory known as Mervin Manufacturing that builds them. Roxy caught me by surprise a couple years ago  when I first stepped on a Roxy board and since then, every [...]