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There Goes is a work in progress. It is/was intended to be a loose documentary style snowboard movie about Jye Kearney & Jake McCarthy and what they get up to for a whole year on and off the snow. Japan marks, or was meant to mark, the beginning of filming for the whole project but…

They say honesty is the best policy. Honestly, the trip did not really go to plan. It didn’t work out at all. Our first run was a blur of face shots and hooting. Our second run started off with one piercing yell – Jye Kearney’s dodgy ankle had given way. So it was all on Jake. He tore the bag out of it solo for a few days and then hit a tree.

The rest of the trip was spent in Sapporo with Jake nursing his ankle and Johnny McCormack and myself trying not to spend all our money on cameras (I still came home with 5 new cameras and enough rolls of film to choke a dozen donkeys).

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If the hot days of summer already have you itching for some time on the slopes, mark your calendars and wax your board for June 15. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Boreal-At-Tahoe, California, will run the Castle Peak Quad lift with service to one run complete with a full terrain park for its fourth-annual Summer Shred.

On the same day, Woodward Tahoe will host an open-house for the public   …  More

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The Pyrenees resort of Porte Puymorens reopened this weekend as plummeting temperatures and rain played havoc with weather across Europe.

Italians were being forced to abandon their seasonal Mediterranean diet of fresh fruit and vegetables after the weather caused chaos with harvests, and flooding in the Czech Republic saw soldiers rushing to   …  More

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Now that you’ve pulled your head out of the toilet and woken up from your Memorial Day hangover, I don’t need to inform you that riding a snowboard over the coming months in the Northern Hemisphere is gonna be downright difficult (outside of summer snowboard camps, duh!). Fuck summer. It’s a depressing time of year and we feel your pain. In an attempt to get a grip on our reality and negative feelings about summer creeping in and all the gross shit this horrible season brings us, we asked our favorite professional snowboarders how they are going to cope during the downtime. Take notes. Party hard. We’re 150 days from opening day in North America   …  Great Pictures and more

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