Snowboarding News

Attending a boy scout national jamboree offers activities and adventures that scouts may or may not anticipate.

The recent Pinole Valley High grad has only been doing it three years and is on the verge of becoming a pro.

Despite Hollywood-level hype around Shaun White's return to skateboard competition Friday night at the Nokia Theater, it was two-time and defending Skate Vert champion Pierre-Luc Gagnon who did what skateboard insiders figured he would all along: win the first ever Vert three-peat in X Games history.

If you've ever been snowboarding at a ski resort and wondered how to get a job there as a snowboard instructor, you're about to find out.

At the X Games, Travis Pastrana won the gold medal for the seventh time in the Moto X Freestyle at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Say goodbye to Kelly Clark and Hannah Teter. The same goes for last yeara s Winter Dew Tour halfpipe champions Kaitlyn Farrington and JJ Thomas and of course, the Flying Tomato, Shaun White.

Ski resorts in Australia, New Zealand, and South America all got off to a strong start in June, but while some are now experiencing a mid-seaon lag others are boasting waist-deep powder conditions.

A new unified North American danger scale has been released. It supposedly provides definitive information, whereas the old scale was quite ambiguous.

It was just a matter of time before the conversation wound around to Winston Churchill.

Add Steve Omischl's name to the growing list of Canadian winter Olympians who've decided to shut things down after the 2010 Games.

It's that time of year again. I'm not talking about MLB pennant races starting to heat up, or NFL mini-camps getting underway, but beginning on July 29 thru August 1, the most extreme athletes will gather in downtown Los Angeles for the 2010 Summer X Games.

Keir Dillon, a member of a seven-snowboarder crew known as "Frends," summarizes the last several months of his comrades' lives in a simple, understated sentence: "It was a crazy year." Since December, one Frends member suffered a traumatic brain injury, another was inches from being paralyzed and a third dislocated his shoulder.

Saturday, 24 July 2010, 12:17 pm Press Release: Treble Cone LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand – A record field of 85 competitors turned out for the return of the NZ Snowboarder Banked Slalom today at Treble Cone, to take on the challenging course and tough visibility conditions.