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Intended Purpose: The Roxy Isis offers a wide panoramic visibility for women in a quality goggle. Location: I rode these goggles from March to July at Mammoth and June Mountain. Conditions: These goggle lenses are meant for sunny days and that’s what I rode for the majority of days.  Always bright sunny days with few [...]

In honor of last week’s Roxy Chicken Jam at Mammoth, Roxy Snowboards gave me a 145cm Ollie Pop to giveaway to a lucky shayboarder.com reader.  While the Roxy Chicken Jam got snowed out with a ton of snow, the contest exploded on this blog with a whole lot of creativity! The contest was about creativity; [...]

In just a matter of days, the world’s best female snowboarders will be on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain for the ultimate women’s contest – The Roxy Chicken Jam.  The Roxy Chicken Jam is the most original and prestigious stand-alone women’s snowboarding contest and it doesn’t end there, there are mascots, concerts and tons of [...]

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: [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked to icy groomers. Setup: I rode the Roxy Rock-it power bindings on the Roxy Envi and Lib Tech Box Scratcher with my Vans Veil Boots size 8. Time to set up the binding: The rock-it’s were average time to set up but also required some more [...]

Don’t let looks deceive you when it comes to Roxy Snowboards, they ride more badass than they look.  Handbuilt in the US at Mervin Manufacturing (who also does Lib and GNU), these boards are created and designed by women for women riders.  They  continue to focus on the environmental efforts that Mervin stands behind which [...]

Roxy continues to help pave the way for female riders with their snowboard collection but they also offer a rang of bindings designed to partner with the snowboards. For technology, Roxy offers their high-speed fastec entry/exit system on two models, RX-fastec and Fastec binding for youth.  Designed with a reclining highback makes strapping in easy [...]

Location: Steamboat, Vail, Beaver Creek, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked groomers to icy to powder conditions on the mountain. Setup: I rode the Roxy Eminence C2 BTX with my Union bastardized bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 155cm. First Impression: Disregard the prettyness of this board because it rides like a badass down the [...]

Each year the crew from Mervin’s Denver office takes to A-Basin for a day on snow with drinks, BBQ and games.  Once I knew the date, I marked it off on my calendar and planned for the day off from work to come enjoy the festivities with friends.  I made my way into Denver last [...]

Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked snow conditions that softened up during the day with bluebird skies. Setup: I rode the Roxy Ollie Pop C2 with Rome Strut bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 154cm. First Impression: I can see why this board is such a popular women’s board and now with [...]