Snowboarding is way more fun when you’re not sweating profusely, freezing your ass off or soaking wet. With the proper outerwear and layering for your climate you’ll avoid all of the above. Style on the other hand is all you.
Tor Lundstrom and Kevin Backstrom head to Austria for some more early season riding. They meet up with Halldor Helgason and Ethan Morgan and someone freezes his nuts off in a creek. From there they head to the Fridge Festival big air in Vienna for some partying.
Nov. 20th, 2013 – Weighing just 1.75 kg (<4lbs) the LAB Carbon Pocketknife makes use of Amplid’s weight shedding technologies pioneered in the LAB Carbon Split to smash the record for the lightest production snowboard ever built. Using topsheet-free carbon construction, low viscosity aerospace epoxy and an almost weightless Paulownia and Birch wood core, Amplid’s R&D team has managed to cut more than half a kilogram of weight from the closest contender.
Venture Snowboards sheds light on Silverton Mountain, the locals, and the vibe in this short ode to a beautiful little mining town in southwest Colorado. Venture Snowboards are handcrafted in Silverton, Colorado in the shadow of the mighty San Juan Mountains. venturesnowboards.com.
Russell Lee has been documenting the Party Snake crew and the Vancouver, BC, scene for the last six years. Between construction shifts, this year he stepped up to take on a bigger part of filming, editing, and producing Year Of The Snake. Here’s a look at boardin’ in Van City and around BC. And, if you were wondering, it is actually the Year Of The Snake.
Arbor Snowboards presents a new resort based series known as Parallel Parking. The first episode is early season shredding from Mammoth Mountain. Erik Leon, Ian Sams, Scotty Vine and a bung of other wood-grain grippin’ fools parked the whip and shred the park at Mammoth Mountain.
In this episode of Prospecting Idaho, the Smith crew of Kyle Clancy, Shayne Pospisil, Wyatt Caldwell, and Yancy Caldwell get out in Sawtooth Pass for some snowmobiling and pow boardin. They link up with some die hard Sawtooth locals then rip some turns and burn some gas.
From K2 — December is a time to really be excited for snowboarding. Weather is officially turning on the way we like to see it and the holidays bring in some great vibes. To help celebrate we’re throwing a Sketchy Art Party for everyone in the Seattle area on December 12 at The Piranha Shop . There will be drinks for the adults, live music from The Numbers Won, art on display featuring some of our top snowboard models of the year including the inspiration that helped form the final graphics.
Vancouver, BC, Canada — What if you could ride in your jeans and still stay dry and warm all day on the mountain? Mason Industries’ water repellent, abrasion resistant, fully lined, 100 percent breathable, stretch-denim technology lets you do just that. Mason Industries’ Classic Rock pants look and feel exactly like your regular jeans, blending street-style denim on the outside with high-tech on the inside.
Eiki Helgason has a unique eye for snowboarding. That’s what growing up riding the streets in an isolated place like Iceland will give you: your own perspective. Once he and his brother Halldor Helgason started watching videos though, they learned every trick they could, the same as anyone, anywhere else.
