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Location: Winter Park, CO + Mammoth, CA + June, CA Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers to leftover powder to deep powder.  This board has ridden every condition possible. Setup: I rode the Jones Hovercraft with Union Milan bindings (and my Union Team bindings in CA) and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Union Atlas on the Capita Totally Fk’n Awesome with my Vans Veil Boots size 8. Time to set up the binding: The atlas were the first binding of the day and had some adjustment to the heelcup to fit [...]

It’s been starting to get busier in town with President’s holiday quickly approaching but even still, took my time this morning to get up to the mountain and start making laps with Pat and his crew.  I ended up running into Dee Dee so was able to get in laps with her and meet one [...]

I haven’t made my way to June Mountain as much as I’d like but I finally went back to check it out and see what it was like on a non-powder day.  As we pulled up, the parking lot was busy for June but still not busy at all.  I think June has the most [...]

Backed by name recognition and a team of riders that voice their opinions on the products they ride, Nike 6.0 outerwear continues to build up the collection for their second year.  The designs, functionality and focus on the Nike heritage is what makes Nike 6.0 different from Nike Snowboarding and how they bring their own [...]

Snowboard socks are often ignored but what goes on your feet during a day on the slopes does matter. While the rest of snowboard gear breeds personality, socks are neglected from the creativity but that’s no longer the case.  In the disappearance of eesa, I was happy to see Stance Socks come out of woodwork [...]

It’s the second and last day of the WWSRA demo at Mammoth Mountain.  I made my trip to SIA include the tradeshow and demo so I could really get on more boards there but also knowing that I’d be able to spend a little bit of time in Mammoth checking out boards.  While shayboarder.com is [...]

Since 1991, Never Summer has been building snowboards out of Colorado designed for quality and durability.  They’ve built up a solid reputation and now with their RC Technology, continue to grow the brand into more than a popular company out of the Rockies.  Their Rocker + Camber technology was introduced a couple years ago and [...]

Today was the first day of the WWSRA demo at Mammoth which meant my lunch/ride break was spent trying out boards for the demo day.  It was a beautiful day for demo’ing, sunshine and groomed runs.  Plenty of companies were in the parking lot at chair #2 with demos for industry shops. I ended up [...]

Location: Mammoth, CA Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Never Summer Proto CT with Union Team bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 152cm. First Impression: The middle of the road between the SL and the Evo Weight: Average Flex: The Proto CT is definitely a mix between [...]