Archive for the ‘Snowboard’ Category
In honor of last weekend’s Father’s Day festivities, TransWorld SNOWboarding took a look back at those rad dads that collectively helped found the sport and create the industry that today is snowboarding.
Here’s a compilation of the top seven who made the list. As a side note, TWSNOW also would like to mention a few key names in snowboarding’s history:
“Now we know that these are not the only ‘Fathers of Snowboarding’ but there’s only seven days in a week. Some of the other ‘Fathers’ that we would like to recognize are Sherman Poppin, Bob Barci, Bert LaMar, Tom Burt, Jamie Lynn,Terje Haakonsen, Chris Roach, Shawn Farmer, Damian Sanders, and many more who helped shape the sport into what it is today.” … More
There’s still snow to be found, even in the summer. You just have to look a little higher that normal. Bjorn Leines, Thomas Delfino, Flo Achenrainer, Angus Leith, and Bernie Kraxner all piled in an RV and traveled through the Austrian Alps searching for shred. Here’s what they found.