Archive for the ‘Snow’ Category
Last winter the adidas Snowboarding team took a trip to Japan to test out the new 2014 collection. With their guide, Kazu Kokubo they were able to find new spots in the mountains of Hokkaido, as well as the streets of Sapporo. Featuring Jake Blauvelt, Eric Jackson, Kazu Kokubo, Helen Schettini, Keegan Valaika, Forest Bailey, and Louif Paradis.
This is the stuff powder dreams are made of. Last season, Japan was hit with an unreal amount of snow and with a slow season in British Columbia, the Get Outta Town boys sent it across the Pacific in search of whiter pastures. Their journey was rewarded when they landed in the middle of the deep and steep country with no end in sight to the storms. In episode 2 of Get Outta Town: Project Two, Ryan Tiene, Benji Ritchie, Iikka Backstrom, and Eero Niemela get barreled in the white wave, dropping pillow lines, buttering untouched fluff, sending floaty back ones off everything in sight and snagging endless powder shots. While the crew gets some in the Land of the Rising Sun, Devun Walsh holds down the fort in Whistler, which was having its own kind of precipitation.
Marc Swoboda is from Austria and prefers metal under his feet rather than in his ears… Judging by his riding though, it’s hard to tell the difference. Enjoy!