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The Park City Ski Patrol Strike Could Finally Be Over
An agreement has been reached between the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association and Park City Mountain.The tenative agreement awaits ratification by the union's bargaining committee with a vote...
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Sam Anderson and Sinister Films Crew Featured on Kansas City TV News
It’s pretty normal to see urban snowboarding in places like Ogden, Utah or Ottawa, Ontario, but Kansas City? That’s so rare, local TV news station KCTV got involved. View this post on Instagram A post...
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Snowboarder Rescued From Washington Backcountry After 30 Hours
A snowboarder who was separated from his partner in the backcountry on New Year’s Day was forced to spend the night in the Mount Baker snow before he was rescued by ski patrol.The snowboarder was...
View ArticleHere's How To Watch The Bomb Hole's Broadcast of the 2025 Laax Open
The Laax Open kicks off January 15, 2025, and some of the most influential voices in snowboarding will be on the broadcast.The Bomb Hole team has partnered with Red Bull for the second straight year to...
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Jamie Anderson Has Joined the Coal Headwear Team
The most decorated woman in X Games history has joined the Coal Headwear team. Jamie Anderson’s name has been in the headlines quite a bit in the last few months. She became a mother in 2023, with the...
View ArticleA Snowboard Rail Jam Will Go Off in South Carolina This Weekend
Charleston, South Carolina: a filming location for the Netflix show Outer Banks, the home of musician Darius Rucker, and the site for one of the hottest snowboarding rail jams in the southeast.No, that...
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West Virginia Resorts Are Having Their Best Season in Years
If you’re stormchasing on the East Coast, you should get yourself to West Virginia as soon as possible, because it's having the best snowboarding season in over a decade.Snowshoe Mountain has gotten...
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Kids Can Learn To Ride for Free at Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe
One of the biggest obstacles to growing as a snowboarder is the barrier of entry. It costs a lot to fall down and be cold all day. Wintersports, while amazing, aren't known for being easy to get...
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Red Bull Heavy Metal is Coming to Boston
Street snowboarding is coming back to Boston, and Zeb Powell is leading the charge.The top street contest in America will have not one, but two stops this year. Riders will head to City Hall Plaza –...
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Natural Selection Finals Will Air Live, Shaun White Has an Open Invite
There are quite a few changes coming to the Natural Selection Tour in the near future, but on the Mark My Bird podcast from Snowboarder Magazine alumni Tom Montessori and Mark Clavin, Travis Rice...
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Iouri "IPod" Podladtchikov Has Come Out of Retirement
Go ahead and call it a comeback. Iouri "I-Pod" Podladtchikov, the 2014 Olympic gold medalist who beat out Shaun White in halfpipe, will return to competitive snowboarding in an effort to make the 2026...
View ArticleZeb Powell Brings Pop Out Tour Back Home
You can always go home, and Zeb Powell is staying true to that advice.Zeb and Alex Caccamo’s 'Pop Out' has returned for the start of 2025. This year, the duo is taking it back to where it all began—...
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Alabama Ski Area Opens for First Time in Five Years
Alabama’s only ski area has opened for the first time in five years, thanks to a storm that has swept across the southeast. Snow hit everywhere in the south from Durham, North Carolina to Atlanta,...
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ThirtyTwo Adds Four New Riders to its Team
ThirtyTwo celebrated its 30th anniversary with a big weekend at Mammoth Mountain. That team grew by four by the end of the weekend.Benny Milam, Patrick Hofmann, Mike Liddle, and Danyale Patterson...
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Teenage Snowboarder Falls From Chairlift at Copper Mountain
An 18-year-old snowboarder fell from the American Flyer chairlift at Copper Mountain in early January.The Summit Daily reported that the fall happened as the snowboarder was getting ready to unload...
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The Snow League Secures $15 Million in Fundraising
The Snow League will debut in Aspen, Colorado in March. On January 14, 2025, the league announced its Series A funding round of $15 million.The round was led by Left Lane Capital. Existing investors...
View ArticleAnna Gasser Becomes Oldest FIS World Cup Contest Winner
It’s been so tough to knock Great Britain’s Mia Brookes out of the top spot on the podium at FIS Big Air competitions that it took the queen to do so in Austria.Anna Gasser, often called the queen of...
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Yes, You Can Now Gamble on X Games Aspen Snowboarding Events
When ESPN sold its majority interest in the X Games in 2022, MSP Sports Capital promised big changes. On January 14, 2025, the group announced perhaps the biggest change so far.You can now bet on the X...
View ArticleBurton’s Chill Foundation Teams Up With Michigan Nonprofit To Offer Students...
About 45 children in Michigan will get the chance to learn how to snowboard for free this year, thanks to a new nonprofit.Taking Back Muskegon has linked up with the Chill Foundation to offer free...
View ArticleKings and Queens of Corbet's Lineup Announced
It’s time to crown another king and queen. The Kings & Queens of Corbet’s is an event that showcases the best skiiers and snowboarders to drop into Corbet’s Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort,...
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The Ortovox Freerider Cozy Mitten Changed My Mind on Snowboarding Gloves
Intro:Finding the right gloves and mittens shouldn’t be hard, but there are so many dang options, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Ortovox’s Freeride Cozy mitten took me by surprise. It made bitter cold...
View ArticleFrench Riders Take Top Spots at First Freeride World Tour Event in Spain
The first contest of the Freeride World Tour wrapped up early in the morning of January 17, 2025, and the French took the top spots for both the men and the women.Victor de le Rue and Noémie Equy each...
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The Dinosaurs Will Die MaeTier is the Perfect Board for Big Feet
Intro:When I decided to get the MaeTier, I was looking for a park board that would still carve well. I was looking for something that my size 12 boots wouldn’t get in the way of. I was looking for a...
View ArticleF1 Driver Lewis Hamilton Went Heli Snowboarding with Shaun White
Lewis Hamilton might be having a better winter than any of us.The legendary Formula 1 driver posted a video on his Instagram on January 16, 2025 of him heliboarding with Shaun White and his...
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AI Judging, Gambling, and Healthcare— X Games is Changing
There are some big changes coming to the X Games.The organization's new CEO Jeremy Bloom already announced that fans will be able to bet on athletes at X Games Aspen 2025. Another new use of technology...
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Hotel Fire Kills Dozens at Turkey Ski Resort
A fire at a Turkish ski resort has left 66 people dead.The fire broke out during a busy school holiday weekday in the early hours of the morning on January 21, 2025.An additional 51 people have been...
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Rider List for Red Bull Heavy Metal St. Paul Released
The first of two Red Bull Heavy Metal events will return to the Minnesota State Capitol Building in Saint Paul, and Minnesota’s Benny Milam will be leading the charge. The rail jam will be held from 2...
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Zeb Powell's Extra-Long Snowboard is Now Available to the Public
You’ve watched Zeb Powell ride the longest snowboards imaginable since he was a teenager riding for Nitro. Now, you can ride one yourself. The Burton Super Ultra Blossom is here. There are three sizes...
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Chloe Kim and Maddie Mastro Make History in Switzerland
It’s great to watch one rider overcome adversity. It’s even better when two of them do so to land on the podium.U.S. Snowboarding teammates Chloe Kim and Maddie Mastro both missed the podium at the...
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What to Watch for at X Games Aspen 2025
These games, they’re changing.The X Games have gone through various iterations over the years, and the current format is a long way off from the mixed ski/snowboard cross relays and snowmobile events...
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Snowboard Thieves Busted by Undercover Cops in Utah
To the people of Park City, lock up your snowboard.A suspect was arrested in Park City, Utah on January 17, 2025 and charged with stealing several pairs of skis and snowboards, and trying to sell them...
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Scotty James Wins Superpipe Gold at First Night of X Games Aspen
With a superpipe win Thursday night, Australian rider Scotty James tied with Shaun White for the most X Games medals of any men’s halfpipe rider. The win was his fourth consecutive superpipe win, and...
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Iris Pham Joins the Nitro Snowboards Team
Nitro Snowboards got a good one.Bozeman, Montana native Iris Pham has joined the team. The news was hinted at earlier this year, but made official in a release from Knut Eliason on January 24, 2025.“We...
View ArticleBoarding For Breast Cancer's Love Your Peaks Tour to Stop in California
Boarding for Breast Cancer is on a nation-wide fundraising tour, and California is up next.The tour will stop at Dodge Ridge and Bear Valley on February 1, 2025 and February 2, 2025, respectively. It...
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Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Wins X Games Slopestyle Gold
Spinning less than a 1080 in a competition? Zoi Sadowski-Synnott said no thank you.The 23-year-old rider from New Zealand became the first woman to land a backside triple cork 1440 in a slopestyle...
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The 5 Best Apps for Snowboarders
Just like anything else, if you need answers for something related to snowboarding, there’s an app for that. There are a bunch of them. Here are a few of my favorite apps to use while getting some...
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Japan's Hiroto Ogiwara Wins X Games Big Air Gold
Hiroto Ogiwara will leave Aspen with a fractured wrist and a gold medal.The 20-year-old Japanese snowboarder — who’s also a student at Sendai University — landed the first melon 2340 in a competition...
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Chloe Kim Wins X Games Gold in Historic Fashion
When Chloe Kim made her X Games debut in 2015 at the age of 13, she took the action sports world by storm by beating the greatest superpipe rider of all time in women’s snowboarding, Kelly Clark.Now,...
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Has Snowboarder Zeb Powell Secretly Joined Michael Jordan's Brand?
Jumpman, Jumpman, Jumpman, them boys up to something.The hype began with a simple Instagram post. Zeb Powell, the unequivocal face of X Games snowboarding in the last few years, posted a photo with...
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Ski Patrol Union and Keystone, Colorado Exchange Public Blows
Vail Resorts is in the midst of another negotiation with a ski patrol union, and this time around, the union is calling upon guests to provide written testimony.The Keystone Ski Patrol Union (KSPU) met...
View ArticleMontana's Biggest Resort Opens Coveted Rope Tow in Terrain Park
Tow ropes: they’re not just for the Midwest anymore.Big Sky Resort in Montana has added a rope tow in its terrain park. The newest feature was unveiled during a ribbon cutting ceremony over the...
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Snowboarder Dies at Vancouver Ski Resort
A snowboarder in Canada has been found dead.The 21-year-old rider was reported missing from the Cypress Mountain Resort. He was snowboarding with friends, and had been last seen in-bounds. He was...
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Five Blunt Takeaways From X Games Aspen 2025
The 2025 X Games Aspen wrapped up Saturday night with Chloe Kim winning yet another gold medal in snowboard superpipe. It was a symbolic year of the contest, a kind of beginning of the future. ESPN...
View ArticleFrench Riders Land Atop Podium at Val Thorens Freeride World Tour
Sometimes, it helps to have some home field advantage.French snowboarders Enzo Nilo and Marion Haerty surely felt that way on January 29, 2025. The duo took home first place finishes for the men’s and...
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Snow Has Finally Returned to Southern California Ski Resorts
After a relatively dry winter, Big Bear Mountain Resort and Snow Valley are finally getting some snow. The ski areas in California benefitted from a moderate storm that swept through earlier this week....
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Fit Check: Power Ranking the 10 Best Kits at X Games Aspen 2025
The most important thing on a snowboard is style. That might not win you an X Games gold medal, but it’s surely to win the hearts of the fans watching at home.Of course, it’s important to have a number...
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Snowboarder Rescued in Southern California After Missing for 48 Hours
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department rescued a snowboarder who had been lost for two nights in the San Gabriel Mountains without camping supplies, food, or even a jacket.“He was lucky,” said Los...
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Red Bull to Offer Cash for 'Best Stomp' at Michigan Snowboard Comp
A street snowboarding contest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is already planned to take over downtown Houghton in mid-February. Now, Red Bull is spicing it up by adding some money to the pot.Red Bull...
View ArticleSnowboarder Dies in Off-Piste Avalanche in Switzerland
A snowboarder has died after an avalanche in Switzerland on January 29, 2025.The avalanche occurred off-piste in Parpan shortly before noon. After it occurred, Graubünden police were deployed to search...
View ArticleThis New Hampshire Ski Area GM Will Pay for Your Parking Ticket
New Hampshire’s Black Mountain is transitioning to a Co-op model that will truly make the ski area for the people. General Manager Erik Mogensen is doing something unprecedented to say thank you to its...
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