With all the fancy corporate housing, cushy salaries, and catered dinners today's pros enjoy you might think the days of "The Hard, The Hungry and The Homeless" are long gone in snowboarding. But you would be wrong. There is a group of snowboarders ...   Read More

After being sidelined for almost eight months last season due to a knee injury, Danny Kass couldn't be more hyped to be riding. We caught up with him recently as he was riding in Park City, Utah. He was fired up, hitting whatever came his way -- par...   Read More

After two years riding on the Volcom board project, legendary Austrian rider Gigi Rüf has launched his own brand of snowboards: SLASH by Gigi."From early on in my pro career I have had an interest, and fortunately an opportunity, to design the board...   Read More

Imagine 20,000-plus kids in a candy store. Now imagine that those kids are all skiers and snowboarders and the candy is all of next year's most techy and stylish winter gear. That's basically what the Snowsports Industries America (SIA) trade show i...   Read More

The Real Snow 2012 Fan Favorite vote was the most nail-biting, down to the wire, flip flopping case of one man up, one man down that we've ever seen. When we left the Winter X Games venue last night Halldor Helgason was up by a few hundred votes. Wh...   Read More

It's all come down to this moment. Only two men are left standing in the Real Snow 2012 Fan Vote: Halldór Helgason and Louis-Felix Paradis. Who will take home $50,000 and the claim of having won the hearts of the Winter X Games audience? ...   Read More

By now you've probably heard about the mother of all freestyle backcountry snowboard contests, pulled straight from the crazy, imaginative mind of Travis Rice: the Red Bull Supernatural. Well now you can check aerial video footage of the venue, cour...   Read More

There was a rumor going around last year that Sarah Burke was going to be added to the Lib Tech NAS team (Narrow Ass Snowboards, its ski line). When I heard that, I thought, "Yeah, no doi." The fact that Lib Tech Snowboards -- home to Travis Rice, M...   Read More

Among close-knit snowboarding circles the GT Memorial Noboard race is a no-miss affair. This legendary event brings together local shredders and pros alike to celebrate the life of Canadian snowboarder Greg Todds, the founder of noboarding, for a we...   Read More

The first round of the Real Snow Fan Favorite vote is officially over, and it looks like daredevil stylings are so far winning out over super-tech rail tricks. The Winter X audience has spoken, and the new matchups are as follows: Halldor Helgason w...   Read More

Deep Winter Photos from second and third place finishers Jussi Grznar and Reuben Krabbe. Gallery When six photographers began shooting for the 2012 Deep Winter Photo Challenge at Whistler, British Columbia, earlier this week, they were greeted with...   Read More

Our action sports world is again in shock. One of freestyle skiing's top women, Sarah Burke, remains in critical condition after a fall while training in Park City a few days ago. As pro snowboarders, skiers, etc., we all know that what we do is ris...   Read More

Oh yes. It's on. All of the video parts for this season's Real Snow contest have finally dropped. You can watch them all on the Real Snow home page, and then vote for your favorite to win. This year the prize for Fan Favorite is $50,000 -- a fair bu...   Read More

Zak Hale came up in Big Bear, California and it shows. His easy-style approach to technical park riding is the obvious result of years spent hot lapping Bear Mountain. He's been a super-grom-rail-jam champ for years now, but Hale is all (or... almos...   Read More