TODAY ON POWD3R - Snowboarding STORIES

iNi Cooperative Announces Roster

laura austin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:48:00 UTC

MT. HOOD, ORE. (January 2012) - iNi Cooperative is proud to announce it's current roster of snowboarders for the 2012 season. These great individuals are not just team riders but true agents of change spreading the knowledge and awareness of a better way of doing business and promoting the sport they...

Vail 2/3/12

Shay — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:25:21 UTC

After taking a day off to relax at the Vail Cascade Resort and Spa, it was time to hit the slopes today to finally explore Vail Mountain. One of the most amazing parts about Vail is when you look at it from hwy 70, it doesn't look like much but what's hidden behind that first slope is a massive resort...

Pro Snowboarder Meesh Hytner Caught In An Avalanche Near Montezuma

Nick Hamilton — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:10:31 UTC

This footage was caught on January 25th, 2012 in the backcountry near Montezuma. It features Pro Snowboarder Meesh Hytner being caught in a sizeable (~class 3) avalanche and deploying her BCA Float 30 avalanche airbag before taking a long ride.

Weekend Warriors V - Snowboard - Harrison Gordon - Front Lip to Fakie

hondo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:08:17 UTC

Think your front lip's as good as Harrison's? Prove it. Enter now

Sol Vista Basin: Where Families Go Big!

Guest — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:09 UTC

I may be biased, but I think that Sol Vista is the best mountain anywhere for families learning to ski." We were riding up the Quick Draw Express Quad at Sol Vista Basin, with a ski patroller. As he spoke, we looked down at the run beneath us. To one side, we saw families: Little kids with parents,...

Family-friendly ski and snowboard holidays

Sam Haddad — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:54:28 UTC

Wondering how and when to introduce your toddler to the joys of a ski or snowboard holiday? As someone with a sky-high level of snow obsession, who timed my pregnancy around winter and spent more time than is reasonable Googling Inuit baby names, I didn't for one second consider skipping a snow trip...

Venture Snowboards Launches The Shape Shack

Kelli Hargrove — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:43:24 UTC

As it takes on the 2011/12 Winter season, Venture Snowboards is launching the Shape Shack. This experimental division of the company is focused on dreaming up unique and innovative board shapes. We have the freedom to produce pretty much anything that we can dream up, and then we can walk out the front...

Red Bull Supernatural Contest Window Now Open

laura austin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:47:01 UTC

Santa Monica, CA (February 2, 2012) - Eighteen of the world's best snowboarder's are settling into Baldface Lodge tonight, as the holding period for Red Bull Supernatural begins. On only one day between today and February 8th, the 18 will be the first riders to drop into Travis Rice's dream snowboard...

World Snowboarding Championships Confirms Riders

Kelli Hargrove — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:37:44 UTC

Scuol, Switzerland - 2 February 2012- TTR and WSF are pleased to announce the confirmed rider field for the World Snowboarding Championships taking place February 10th-19th in Oslo, Norway. Over 200 men and women from over 25 countries around the world, including 3-times TTR World Tour winners Peetu...

Red Bull Supernaturals - The Future Of Snowboarding?

ttrworldtour — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:56:07 UTC

Unfortunatly the Red Bull Supernaturals doesn't fit in to any TTR tour discipline yet, but, is it the future of competitive freestyle snowboarding? For the uninitiated the Red Bull Supernatural is a unique backcountry competition handcrafted by the snowboarding demi-god, Travis Rice, to challenge all...

Winter Park Laps

laura austin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:35:14 UTC

In this edit Mike Gonsalves, Ted Lavoie, Jaeger Bailey test boards at Winter Park's On Snow Demo. Cameos by SNOWBOARDER staff members Laura Austin, Drew Amer, and Bataleon's Anthony Manfredi. By submitting a comment, you grant Snowboarder Magazine a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web...

Statue of Jesus Allowed to Remain at Montana Ski Resort

First Tracks!! Online Media — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:29:04 UTC

Whitefish, MT - A Wisconsin-based atheist group has vowed a court fight after the U.S. Forest Service this week reversed an earlier decision to deny a permit for a plot of land upon which a statue of Jesus has sat for decades at Whitefish Mountain Resort. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF)...

Backcountry Access Float Saves Snowboarder

The Editors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:41 UTC

This video of snowboarder Meesh Hytner would seem to suggest that wearing a Backcountry Access Float 30 (or a similar avalanche buoyancy device) can be very helpful when the entire slope begins to slide. Glad everyone is okay. [Link: GrindTV.com via Gizmodo]

Watch the Burton Canadian Open on Redbull.tv

hondo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:47:02 UTC

WHAT: Live event webcasts on Redbull.tv will feature men's and women's Slopestyle and Halfpipe semi-finals and finals taking place February 3 and 4 (MST) at Winsport Canada's Canada Olympic Park, in Calgary, Alberta. Redbull.tv will be providing live scoring, live standings, competition rankings and...

Snowboarders Arrive at Baldface Lodge as Red Bull Supernatural Contest Window Opens February 3-8th

hondo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:18:44 UTC

Eighteen of the world's best snowboarder's are settling into Baldface Lodge tonight, as the holding period for Red Bull Supernatural begins. On only one day between today and February 8th, the 18 will be the first riders to drop into Travis Rice's dream snowboard run, competing to find out who is the...

Burton Canadian Open 2012 - Check The Course

medo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:44 UTC

The fourth annual Burton Canadian Open Snowboarding Championships, presented by MINI, got underway today at WinSport Canada's Canada Olympic Park (COP) in Calgary, Alberta. We teamed up with TTR's favourite 14 year old ripper, Ty Walker, for this 'Check The Course' so sit back and let her show you what...

Gigasport Snowvalley Planneralm

medo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:50 UTC

With the vision to have fun in the mountains", a bunch of passionate freestylers decided to make their dream of a Snowpark on the Planneralm come true. Since then, since the year 2000, the park went through big changes and extensions, but the spirit stayed the same. Highly prized for its snow guarantee...

Who's Next for Nope?

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:43:08 UTC

Snowboard teams used to be built the old-fashioned way: by a team manager who hooked up his bros. But Nope Snowboards out of Park City is going about things a little different. In fact, if you've got skills and a video camera, you could be next for Nope, and take home 5k cash, Bern gear [...]

Terje Haakonsen & The Invisible Swordsman

The Editors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:51:48 UTC

We're more confused than you. All we've gotten out of this is that the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships are going down in Oslo, Norway February 10-19, 2012 and they will include a macking quarter pipe. . . and Drop Kick Murphys and Turbonegro.

Nearly a foot of new snow in Denver but half that ...

Devin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:54:53 UTC

Saturday was a great day to be on the mountain: perfect temperatures, not too crowded, and some decent "early season" conditions. We had a great Saturday at Breckenridge. The T-Bar had only been open for a few days so we took the opportunity to milk it as much as possible. We took a bit of a break...