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Over the past 19 years, 686 has created outerwear with a signature purpose of making things better through snowboarding with technical apparel.  The 2012 686 collection features the Smarty, Mannual, Plexus and Reserved series that offer a range of apparel for various riders/conditions. For 2012, 686 collaborates with Fallen to bring  the skateboarding influence into [...]

Sometimes being dysfunctional has its perks especially when you are part of the Snaggletooth family.  I’m a huge fan of the 686 outerwear series featuring a dsyfunctional family and wanted to give someone the chance to rock the 686 Snaggletooth Jr Jacket in XL.  I asked you guys to leave a comment with your Snaggletooth [...]

It’s been quite the week with my personal life but the latest storm delivered a good amount of fresh snow that was calling my name and today was the day.  I woke up early this morning to bluebird skies and hit up the mountain just in time to meet up with Daniel for our powder [...]

Forum Snowboards sticks to the left side of snowboarding with a focus on freestyle boards.  They don’t need gold medals, overpriced products or a season pass to have fun, they ride the backyards, the streets, the mountains and wherever they can find snow. For 2012, Forum offers their combo platter, doubleDog, Chillydog with pop, camber [...]

Location: Mammoth, CA Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Emerge Punked Out with Union Team bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 155cm. First Impression: I first got it out and the first test is always skating to a stop which this board did not want to do, it was [...]

Go blast some air – sometimes it’s that simple.  Airblaster’s taken the fun of snowboarding and bottled it up into a pill that makes you happy.  The more you snowboard, the happier you are.  Travis Parker founded Airblaster and if you’ve ever seen his video parts you’d know that snowboarding is just about having fun, [...]

February has been a month of changes but really good changes in my personal life but it’s also meant some time off from snowboarding.  After being sick for a week, it felt really good to get on the slopes and meet up with my favorite skier for lunch laps. The mountain was bitter cold with [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Rome Anthem with Rome Mob bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 157cm. First Impression: Anthem is still that comfortably charge the mountain board. Weight: Average Flex: Longitidinally stiffer flex and a definite more aggressive freeride board.  Torsionally [...]

Don’t let looks deceive you when it comes to Roxy Snowboards, they ride more badass than they look.  Handbuilt in the US at Mervin Manufacturing (who also does Lib and GNU), these boards are created and designed by women for women riders.  They  continue to focus on the environmental efforts that Mervin stands behind which [...]

One of the outerwear collections that really stands out on the mountain and that i’m a huge fan of is the 686 Snaggletooth jacket series that showcases a fun dysfunctional family on snowboard outerwear.  Since everyone has some creativity and ability to be dysfunctional, you can win the 686 Snaggletooth Jr Jacket in XL by [...]