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Intended Purpose: The Bolle Simmer is designed to fit small to medium face in a compact design with distortion free vision. Location: I rode these goggles in the early season at Mammoth Mountain. Conditions: The early season conditions were a lot of stormy days with overcast skies, crappy flatlight and a couple rare bluebird moments. [...]

Intended Purpose: The Speck x Burton Fitted iPhone case is a collaboration between Speck and Burton that delivers the protective quality of Speck and the visually stimulating patterns from Burton. It makes your iPhone look better with a better feel to it. Fit: This is a two piece hard shell design that snaps and locks [...]

Intended Purpose: Meant for colder days on the slopes to keep your face warm and covered up. Appearance: I received the black strip/black reversible neckwarmer.  I mostly use the black stripe side because it’s just a simple design. Best Used for: The clast neckwarmer is best for cold days on the mountain with some windchill. [...]

Intended Purpose: The Bonfire particle snowboard pants are designed to be waterproof, breathable and ready to roll in the snow. Fit: The particle pants have a classic fit which means not too tight, not too baggy. I really liked how they fit me, just on the baggy side but not ultra baggy and good comfort [...]

Intended Purpose: The Burton Windstopper Hoodie is meant to be lightweight, windproof and breathable.  Plus it’s warm meaning you stay warm underneath it and it keeps you dryer than you’d think.  Normally I wouldn’t review a “hoodie” but this isn’t your average hoodie when it comes with a Gore-Tex name on it. Fit: It’s an [...]

Intended Purpose: The Remind insoles come in two versions, cush and thin.  The thin are meant for more shoes and low impact like walking, the cush are ideal for higher impact activities like snowboarding.  I’ve worn both in my snowboard boots and the cush are definitely more favorable for snowboarding. Appearance: This is one of [...]

Intended Purpose: The Bern Baker Hardhat offers a comfortable fitting helmet with audio capacity so you can rock out to tunes on the mountain.  The Hard Hat offers some protection from hard hits but it is not EN/AST/CPSC certified. Appearance: I’m a huge fan of Tj’s artwork and when the drawing on the Tj’s helmet [...]

I received my Frequency in the mail right before my flight to Seattle, packed it in my carry-on, read it on the flight and took it on a journey. Since then I’ve read it, re-read it. It got buried in my truck below a pile of catalogs and moved around until I found it earlier [...]

I was having a really bad day where I just wanted to go home and crawl in bed. I was frustrated from work and starting to realize that it might be time to move on. On my way home, I checked my mail and found Frequency waiting for me. Instead of crawling under the covers, [...]

This review will be updated throughout the season as I demo and test more 08/09 snowboards. Each review is judged by the same standard and for the majority of reviews I used my own boots (some exceptions). During demos I try to stick to riding the same size board of 157-159cm with the exception of [...]