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For years, Rome has been designing and building bindings for the 100 day rider.  The targa’s, 390′s and Madisons have won over riders hearts and taken their place in the lineup for quality bindings that last.  Over time other names have been added to the list, arsenal, united, shifts, struts, bosses to bring out a [...]

The storm took off and the sun came back out in Mammoth for a tuesday shred session.  I headed out for a couple lunch laps with the skier to enjoy the soft snow and sunshine on the mountain.  It’s hard to stay inside all day when the mountain is just outside the doors and it [...]

Last week I did the first giveaway for lift tickets to Mt Baldy and now it’s onto the second and final giveaway for two lift tickets to Mt Baldy.  With a motto of southern California’s best kept secret and a quick distance drive from there, it’s worth checking out whether you’ve been a ton or [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Roxy Envi C2 BTX with Roxy Rock-it power bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 156cm. First Impression: Feels good to ride a women’s board that looks good but rides more badass than it looks. Weight: Average Flex: [...]

Over the weekend a storm rolled into Mammoth and delivered up a couple more inches of snow on the mountain.  The total is now 453 inches (almost 38 feet of snow) and it’s good on the mountain.  So good that I’m happy snowboarding will continue into the spring. Ashley and I hit up the mountain [...]

Weekend covets snowboards instead of thinking of them as commodities and limits the number of snowboards they produce each season which mean when you see a Weekend snowboard you really notice it.  Each year the boards are built in Austria and they only offer a limited number of boards per size, per model.  Each board [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Flow Prima bindings on the Flow Drifter with my Vans Veil Boots size 8. Time to set up the binding: One of the big components with Flow bindings and rear entry is making sure they are adjusted properly to [...]

Thanks to the crew at skiforfree.com, they offered up lift tickets for me to giveaway to Mt Baldy Ski Resort earlier this week and this is the first of two giveaways (which means if you didn’t win, stay tuned for your second chance to win).  Mt Baldy is closest to So-Cal with natural terrain and [...]

While the slopestyle finals were fun to watch yesterday, the pipe finals at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix were definitely the popular choice to watch and be a part of.  I started the day catching up with Cope from Neff, Tricia Byrnes and Stacey and John from Fuel TV before making my way up to [...]

I’ve been anxiously awaiting the Grand Prix stop in Mammoth after watching the earlier stops this season around the US.  This week has been a mix of weather from sun to overcast to storming snow but today the weather finally came around and delivered up bluebird sunny skies with the wind coming in towards the [...]