Weekly park edit from Bear Mountain, California. This week featuring Jordan Small, Jake Schaible, Cody Lee, Brett Wilkinson, Bob Abrams, Tom Pelly, Dylan Alito, and Max Bigley.
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WASHINGTON — He stands tall on his snowboard, maneuvering a championship course with speed and agility.
That snowboard has been his ticket to competitions around the world — from Colorado to New Zealand. It has also been a driving force in his recovery from the wounds of war.
Capt. Wayne Waldon lost his right leg on the battlefield in Iraq on July 11, 2007. He was airlifted first to a military facility in Germany, and a few days later to … More
Facing a nearly impossible deficit against a four-time world champion he’d never outraced, all the unorthodox choices snowboarder Vic Wild made to keep his career alive converged over 30 glorious seconds of perfection.
His banged-up body patched together by the best doctors his adopted country can provide, his perfectly assembled board riding like a lightning bolt, his newfound fans screaming his name and waving a very different kind of red, white and blue, the man who eschewed his homeland for his heart, made Olympic history.
Gold for Russia. Again. And maybe more than a little vindication … More
Last March, Oakley and SNOWBOARDER Magazine brought eight of the key, core retailers from the US to Mammoth Mountain, California for the Oakley Shred Shop Challenge, a loose-format contest that tested up to four staff members from each shop in the arena that led to them spending time on the retail floor in the first place. On hill, riders from Colorado’s Satellite, Utah’s Milosport, California’s Active Ride Shop and Wave Rave, Washington’s evo and SnoCon, Vermont’s Darkside and Massachusetts’ Eastern Boarder were tasked to drop into creations set up by the Mammoth Unbound Park Staff. Transitions were tackled, rails were ridden, and copious amounts of sake was consumed in celebration off hill. At the end of two days of events, the locals from Wave Rave took first place overall. Did we mention each team rode in costume, too? Thanks to all of the shops that came in competed, hung out, and celebrated the integral part that they play in snowboarding.