SKIING/SNOWBOARDING

Maggie Leon is an amazing human and snowboarder, and we can all use more of her in our lives. Luckily, she is the guest on this week’s episode of The Bomb Hole. Listen in and check out more of what Maggie does as featured in Back of House in issue 18.1.

Fourteen of the finest backcountry riders in snowboarding are perched on the ridges of the Kootenays at Baldface Lodge this week for the second stop of the Natural Selection Tour. The TAE Natural Selection is a go from February 20-27th, with one contest day going down on the infamous Baldface run, Scary Cherry. On March

Whether you’ve been skiing since the days of leather boots or if rockered sticks are all you know, you should care that the number of skiers over 65 is at an all-time high. After all, it bodes well for the future of our sport. In 2020-’21, seniors accounted for 16.1 percent of skier visits, totaling

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. I don’t believe many skiing love affairs start with a burgundy 1990 Toyota Camry, but mine does. Growing up just outside Chicago, we called our family’s Camry “the fast car,”

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. Skiers enjoying fresh powder at Utah’s Snowbird ski resort watched in horror as two Black Hawk helicopters from the National Guard crashed just beyond the ski area boundary on Tuesday

Years ago, when Beyond the Boundaries started coaching women’s-specific park clinics, the goal was to get more women in the park, to open up the possibilities and help women feel not only comfortable, but confident dropping into boxes, rails, and jumps. But over time, it became very clear that was only the foundation for something

Plenty of quads have been landed in contests, but never on the Olympic stage. And Chris Corning put down potentially the best quad of his life during the Big Air contest last week. NBC actually posted the footage so we figured we should share it here as well. By all the rider’s accounts, the jump

Alright, back to your regularly scheduled programming. We are back from China and ready to enjoy some Japan powder with an up-and-comer in Rome’s ranks, Yuri Okubo. A 21-year-old that competed in big air and slopestyle on the competitive side, even reaching the Olympics back in 2018, has recently found success in front of the

By the time we show up at our local resort, the crews have been working for hours to prepare for our arrival. The folks that work in mountain operations are the unsung heroes of wintertime, laying the foundation for every aspect of our enjoyment making turns, from park laps to groomer runs. In the center

For decades, ski poles have been a pretty boring piece of gear on the backcountry checklist. Essential? Definitely. A hot ticket gear item? Absolutely not. Until now. Colorful, extended grip poles are the biggest trend in backcountry skiing at the moment, edging out the telescoping poles that have been standard for so long. For many

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. There’s an eerie sight early-bird skiers see at some popular ski areas across the country: a sprawling lift line, packed to the brim with skis and poles, but no skiers.

The first episode of a new video series, Out For a Rip, featuring Marie-France Roy, Timmy Taussig, Seth Wescott, Jesse Gilbert, and friends that focuses on the fun of snowboarding and the environment we snowboard in. Out For A Rip is a video project featuring Marie-France Roy, Timmy Taussig, Seth Wescott, Jessa Gilbert, and friends.

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. Despite Wizard-of-Oz-like winds and minus-12 degree temperatures, the U.S. stacked four men into the top seven in the Olympic ski halfpipe event on Saturday, led by David Wise and Alex

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. Tom Wallisch is a pioneer in the world of freeskiing. Since his break-out debut in Level 1’s 2007 Superunknown video contest and winning back-to-back Powder Magazine Reader Polls in 2011

Yeah, we are a few days late on this edit because we were in the U.S. Custom’s office en route back from Beijing, but with all the news going on, does it even matter anymore? The riding is two years old and yet still fresher than anything in your local grocery store. Nobody knows when

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. The sky was so clear during the men’s ski cross event on Friday that the racers could see the long shadows of their opponents. But visual cues didn’t help Tyler