SKIING/SNOWBOARDING

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Utah’s Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons remain closed for consecutive days as of April 5 due to avalanche hazard, mitigation, and slide debris clearing. Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, and Solitude resorts are also closed,

Fear Feature: A look at our relationship with fear and risk. In part 1, Elena Hight shares her perspective. Perspective: Elena HightFirst Descent of the east ridge of Mt. Bertha with Jeremy Jones and Griffin Post – Glacier Bay National Park, AlaskaPart 1 of Fear Feature from Snowboard Magazine issue 19.2. My risk tolerance in

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. It’s odd to look back at your twenties and know you were a brilliant dumbass. After college, I moved to Telluride, Colorado, to ski. I’d only skied three days in my life at

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. With the exception of one trip to Orlando a handful of years ago, my family always skis over spring break. With school-aged kids—now high-school-aged, to boot—it’s impossible to take them out of classes

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Big Sky Resort’s Big Couloir is everything expert skiers are hoping it will be: a tight, technical entrance, sustained vertical that sets your thighs aflame, and just exposed enough to make your knees

The brick-hard snow and iron-clad community of the East Coast. words and photos: Mary T. Walsh I may be biased, but the foundation of snowboarding in New England is as strong as they come. The mountains made up of to brick-hard snow and iron-clad community. When you come up snowboarding in New England, your origin

Nate talks about his latest rail jam wins and what he is doing with all the cash. Born and raised in Richmond, Massachusetts, Nate Haust has been snowboarding ever since he switched from skiing at the age of 11. It has been just about 20 years since then, and after a pit stop in Burlington,

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On January 1, 2014, I awoke to find that the evening’s single-digit temperature had plummeted into the negative teens overnight. In the winter, St. Paul, Minnesota, where I lived at the time, most

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Kalle Norman was on a university ski trip to Hokkaido, Japan in 2016 when he first laid eyes on the strikingly orange winter boots. Japan, surrounded on all sides by the ocean and

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Time to break out the speed suits, the NASTAR National Championships are back at Aspen Snowmass next month, for the third consecutive year. The Nationals run from April 3-8, 2023, and feature a

Jess Kimura been working on something magical for this spring. Building on the momentum of The Uninvited trilogy, on April 13-16, 2023, The Uninvited Invitational will center a spotlight on the current generation of up-and-comers, alongside established riders who are raising the bar in the streets. The riders will gather in Tahoe at Boreal to

For the fifth year, Snowboy and SRD collaborated on a park gathering at Sunshine Village. Finn and JJ Westbury, leading the charge from SRD, welcomed friends and fellow boarders to the Snowboy and Sunshine-built park in the Bow Valley. Big thanks to Salomon for making Tales From the Village possible! Here are the goods from

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Is Mikaela Shiffrin the G.O.A.T.? Hear her adorable answer Oh, Mikaela, this is just too much. Instead of accepting her flowers for an absolutely historic race career, Shiffrin deflected talk of her being

When it comes to terrain parks, Aspen is perhaps best known for the January build that hosts X Games competitors like Jamie Anderson, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Mark McMorris, Gaon Choi, and Zeb Powell. Beyond thise well-known, XL-sized jumps on the Buttermilk peak, Aspen offers a whole cornucopia of terrain parks for every ability over on Snowmass.

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. I wake to the smell of French press coffee steeping on the counter beside me while snow flutters down outside our windows. The last few licks of flames have petered out from the

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Freeride fans: bad news, the Freeride World Tour recently announced the cancellation of the Xtreme Verbier, the finals event held in Switzerland that caps off the competition season. This cancellation is not a