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Rider Profile: Hans Mindnich
While Hans Mindnich and Nils Mindnich are obviously two very different boarders I’ll talk about them together since that’s how I always saw them for the first five years I knew them. Having spent a...
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Rider Profile: Ben Ferguson
It used to seem like Ben Ferguson took snowboarding more seriously than other kids. He came to tons of our shoots, always was eager, and he did well. Every so often Ben the badass would emerge. I knew...
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Rider Profile: Garrett Warnick
When I was a Mammoth local, Garrett “Worm” Warnick always seemed to be around and every one of the more high profile kids fully had his back. Tyler Flanagan, Trevor Jacob, Greg Bretz, and everybody...
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Rider Profile: Spencer Schubert
At the risk of sounding creepy, it wasn’t until Spencer Schubert started using Desiree Melancon’s drivers license as a fake ID that he made any sort of impression on me. He literally put on a dress...
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Rider Profile: Sam Taxwood
Two years ago Sam Taxwood broke open his piggy bank, cashed in his college fund and returned all of Michael Wick’s empties to be able to afford to go to The Holy Bowly in Japan. In other words, he...
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Rider Profile: Jaeger Bailey
Jaeger Bailey sent me a Facebook message in 2011 asking how to get into The Launch. In the message he mentioned that we had met at the Holy Oly, on-hill at High Cascade, and at Cobra Dogs. Each time...
View ArticleInterview: Terry Kidwell
Alongside the re-issue of his iconic pro model, Terry Kidwell talks about snowboarding's past and present. Read the full Interview: Terry Kidwell article on Snowboarder Magazine.
View ArticleVans #LivingOfftheWall series showcases Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co.
A formidable human being from humble beginnings, Portland-based graphic designer Aaron James Draplin of the DDC represents some of the best protein to be found within SNOWBOARDER Magazine’s DNA. Though...
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Boycott the Olympics: The IOC Needs Snowboarding More Than We Need Them
words: Pat Bridges and Henning Andersen Self-determination is a tenet of the human condition that everyone strives for. While there are still those who are subjugated and oppressed due to circumstances...
View ArticleThe Bode Merrill Medium Quarterpipe Invitational: Bode Merrill and High...
words: Pat Bridges photos: Oli Gagnon, Aaron Blatt and Mary Walsh For the fourth year in a row Bode Merrill has put out the siren call to tweakers and twisters and other loose-limbed miscreants to come...
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Rider Profile: Jake Blauvelt
p: Mike Yoshida Jake Blauvelt is on the short list of riders who can link multiple tricks in a single first track descent, bopping from feature to feature, following a divine course. Yet what separates...
View ArticleLivin’ on the edge in Alberta
Read the full Livin’ on the edge in Alberta article on Snowboarder Magazine.
View ArticleLip tricks mandatory: The Oakley Minipipe Challenge comes to Mammoth Mountain
words: Pat Bridges photos: Jeff Baker While the points chasers and contest jocks were still reeling over the debacle that was the canceled World Championships ff Snowboarding halfpipe competition in...
View ArticleMammoth Superpark Greatest Hits Gallery – Part 1
words: Pat Bridges In two weeks an event twenty years in the making returns to its most stoic setting, Mammoth Mountain. In 1997, SNOWBOARDER Magazine was fed up with terrain park progression being...
View ArticleMammoth Superpark Greatest Hits Gallery – Part 2
words: Pat Bridges In two weeks an event twenty years in the making returns to its most stoic setting, Mammoth Mountain. In 1997, SNOWBOARDER Magazine was fed up with terrain park progression being...
View ArticleForest Bailey Made with Love: The Forest Bailey Interview
Forest Bailey discusses art, skateboarding's influence on his riding, battling injury for the first time in his career, and more. Read the full Forest Bailey Made with Love: The Forest Bailey Interview...
View ArticleFifth Annual Bode Merrill Double Quarterpipe Invitational at High Cascade –...
words: Pat Bridges photos: Oli Gagnon and Aaron Blatt Any time you have a fifth and two quarters, you know you are in for a good time and the fifth annual Bode Merrill Double Quarterpipe Invitational,...
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Powder To The Proletariat! You Can Own Red Mountain in British Columbia
Jamie Rizutto. p: Ryan Flett With over a century of history, Red Mountain is a stoic, albeit subdued fixture of the BC snowboarding scene. While more commercial destinations have been on the bigger,...
View ArticlePat Moore: Blueprint – Episode 6: Continuing the Legacy
Fantasy camp at Baldface. Read the full Pat Moore: Blueprint – Episode 6: Continuing the Legacy article on Snowboarder Magazine.
View ArticleGrenade Games 10 at Mammoth Mountain – PHOTOS
One of snowboarding's last bastions of non-PC, down and dirty debauchery. Read the full Grenade Games 10 at Mammoth Mountain – PHOTOS article on Snowboarder Magazine.
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