Last winter Europe was basking in its best snow season since social networks began. My friends’ timelines were abuzz with updates and images chronicling the ridiculous amount of snow falling in the Alps. All of which would have been fine if I wasn’t heading to the usually snowsure state of Colorado for 10 days, where it was having its “worst” winter for a decade.
It hadn’t snowed for two weeks and nothing was forecast for the duration of my stay. Landing under a starry sky in Durango – after a short internal hop from Denver – my planned powder quest was looking like  … More
Do skiing and culture mix? Rarely. In 1834 the French novelist Balzac wrote about it in his novel Séraphîta, but the kit was rudimentary to say the least. (“Seraphitus threw his weight upon his right heel, arresting the plank – six and a half feet long and narrow as the foot of a child – which was fastened to his boot by a double thong of leather.”)
A century later another Frenchman, Jean-Paul Sartre, ventured to the slopes of   … More
Arbor Snowboards team riders, Ian Sams, Erik Leon, Scotty Vine, Mariah Dugan, Sammy Spiteri, and Brandon Hammid hooked up near Lake Tahoe, California for the Boreal Sessions! The park crew at Boreal Mountain built some creative set ups and the Arbor team laid down proper trick after proper trick. Good times with a great crew at a mountain the gets it. Enjoy.