To be a backcountry snowboarder, you need a list of supplies that reads like the inventory list at an avalanche rescue station: truck, snowmobile, trailer, satellite phone, wilderness first aid kit. You need the right equipment and the ideal weather. Then there’s the risk of injury—the always-present reality of dying in the mountains. It seems safer and, frankly, cheaper to shred inside the perimeters of competitive snowboarding—but for 31-year-old Big Bear Lake, California, native Hana Beaman, there’s no comparing the two disciplines. “None of those big wins ever really got me as excited, as stoked, as … More
Snowboarder Danny Davis, who stated recently that winning X Games gold meant more to him than Olympic gold, came away with the medal he prizes most Sunday night when he won the Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe event at X Games Aspen 2014—in part because of who didn’t compete.
The legendary Shaun White, who had won the previous six X Games SuperPipe competitions at Aspen … More
A Battle of the Sexes snowboarding competition reality series located at Liberty University,following the progression of 5 men and 5 women learning how to snowboard, balancing their school and work schedules while starting with no experience and training to battle it out in an all out snowboarding competition.
Tune in to ESPN2 to watch Making Your Mark: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris Sunday, January 26th at 11PM EST/8PM PST!