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Despite the down economy, the underdog companies in snowboarding certainly have the upper hand and are finding themselves in positions to bring back companies or launch new companies.  The heartbeats of these companies lie in the mountains and it’s only a matter of time before they start beating again. Compatriot Snowboards began in 2002 with [...]

Each season I take to the slopes to try/test/borrow snowboards to see how they perform and review them for this site. What started out as 10 boards a season has now become over 50 boards a season and I’m the only rider doing the review. This year with opportunities from multiple demo days, Board [...]

If you are remotely near Portland today, it’s your chance to win a 09-10 Lib Tech Skate Banana compliments of Shayboarder and Mervin Manufacturing.  All you have to do is track me down when I put out twitter clues at 4pm that will help you find my location in Portland, Oregon.  All it takes is [...]

In June, I did a successful Birthday twitter giveaway where people tracked me down with twitter clues and the first person who found me won an 09-10 Never Summer Circuit-R snowboard.
People mentioned how great it would be to have that same giveaway in other cities that I traveled to, so I set out in June [...]

With my 26th birthday rapidly approaching on June 12th, I thought how great would it be to have a giveaway on my birthday. The fine crew at Never Summer was up for donating a board to my Birthday giveaway and then I just needed to come up with the giveaway idea. South of the [...]