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