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It’s harder to find the smaller snowboard companies for demos so when they do get on a mountain tour, it’s a good thing to check them out.  Ellis Snowboards is starting to make their way around Colorado offering up demos, giveaways and more.
Here’s the information for their Colorado demo tour and what mountains they’ll be [...]

The 08-09 season just winded down with a greatseason ending at Windell’s Camp for their last session.  It’s been an amazing year of snowboarding and I’m really thankful that I can ride as much as I do and write about it. I’m in the final stretch for another year of 12 months a year of [...]

In my constantly moving chatbox, Pierce asked “how do you meet all these people I would love to be as involved in the snowboard community as you are.”
The snowboard industry is small, seriously smaller than you can imagine. If you know one person, chances are through them you know, or can potentially know, a [...]

Well last night was a late night, stayed up partying and went to bed around 2am. This morning was a little rough but after some coffee I was awake and hanging in there.

Here’s the video for day 3 of demos, today was just trying out a couple boards and having fun with friends while [...]

While the rest of the condo had to get up to set up the demo tent, I got a extra little bit of sleep in the morning before I made my way out to the demos on day 2.

Here’s the video for the day, with my friends in the park and getting some demos set [...]

Well I made it out to Keystone for the on-snow industry demo’s.  Each year after SIA is the on-snow demo giving the industry a chance to ride the products that we checked out at SIA.

This year I made a video as I was at the demo, from riding to checking out the gear to getting [...]

Each year after SIA, there are industry on-snow demo’s for the next year’s products. Not every company is there, but a good amount of them participate in the demos.
February 10-12th at Keystone, I get the opportunity to attend and check it out the 09-10 snowboards. I’ll be spending 3 days on snow to [...]

I came down to Keystone friday night to hang out with friends at a condo for the weekend.  I enjoyed the condo a lot more than them since I was feeling under the weather last week.  It  finally caught up to me that I needed to take a day off from work and riding.  I [...]

I left Steamboat Springs this morning with the snow guns cranking away to make the lower mountain and base area covered with snow. Steamboat opens on the 26th so really looking forward to being able to ride my home mountain. Today at Loveland was the Christy Sports Demo. Also this weekend, Copper has [...]

Today was day two of the demos at Loveland and in typical form it was snowing throughout the day. I arrived early and spent the day from one tent to another trying out boards.
Conditions were better than yesterday, it wasn’t as cold and windy but it was still cold and windy. [...]