B4BC Celebrates 20th Anniversary Year with Plans to to Revive Snowboard Festival

B4BC Plans to Launch Photo Exhibition Tour of 20 Most Iconic Snowboard Images and More Words: B4BC Los Angeles, CA– Two decades ago, a small group of young women, leaders in the snowboarding industry, turned the tragic loss of a friend to breast cancer into a positive new movement called Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC).…

Best Men’s Splitboards 2015-2016

Words: Scott Yorko Testers agreed, this split is a full-fledged jump seeker. A backcountry badass that likes to get after some big natural features and throw down tricks, it was fast and playful and wanted to be in the air. Not your top choice for long spring tours, where some testers found it lacking float…

Jenny Jones: Exploring Iceland by Splitboard

Jenny Jones’ career as a snowboarder has been filled with amazing success. From podiums at various competitions, taking the Bronze at the Olympics, magazine covers and video parts, she’s done it all. At this point in her career, Jenny is excited to continue seeking out new experiences that splitboarding has to offer. It’s not necessarily…

Aspen skier accused of tossing snowboarder off chairlift

Aspen Highlands in 2012. (AP Photo/The Aspen Daily News, Janet Urquhart) A snowboarder at Colorado’s Aspen Highlands resort said he wasn’t really sure why a skier tossed him off a chairlift Sunday, sending him face-first into a pile of snow nearly 25 feet below. «I honestly thought I was dead,» Seth Beckton told the Aspen Times after…

Денис Тихомиров: Бронза Заварзиной и Уайлда внушает оптимизм

Главный тренер сборной России Денис Тихомиров сказал, что первый результат года российских сноубордистов Алены Заварзиной и Виктора Уайлда, ставших бронзовыми призерами командного турнира в параллельном слаломе на этапе Кубка мира в Австрии, внушает оптимизм. — Неплохо начинаем год, — отметил Тихомиров. — Приятно, что Алена и Виктор попали на пьедестал семьей, но все-таки хотелось бы видеть в числе призеров больше разных фамилий нашей сборной. Теперь важно в боевом…

Burton US Open 2015 — Kelly Clark Winning Halfpipe Run

Photo: Aaron Blatt «Kelly is 32 years old and is still on the top of her game. One of the most impressive accomplishments a pro can achieve is longevity. To stay on the top and remain their for years is something very, very few snowboarders are able to do. » — Eddie Wall «Still going…

Mountain High Hosts World’s Largest Lesson

By Alyssa Falso Mountain High Hosts World’s Largest Lesson Day on January 8, 2016 Wrightwood, Calif. – January’s arrival marks the start of Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month at Mountain High and the resort is participating in the World’s Largest Ski and Snowboard Lesson Day set for Friday, January 8 at 10:00 a.m. Multiple…

Origins Extended : The History of Freestyle Snowboarding at Whistler

 Covering all the riders, photographers, and filmmakers who made Whistler a global snowboarding hotspot over the years would take its own feature-length documentary. It would take hours to truly do justice to those personalities and their tales. Instead, this is a glimpse at a few key people and early events that paved the way for…