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What other “sport” lets the fans get this close to the action? Not the NFL, NBA, PGA—none of ’em—unless you’re some lame celebrity or rich donkey willing to pay to sit near celebrities. Anyway, snowboarding is better than all those “ball” games. This is a big contest year—chances are good that if you live where it snows, you can get a front-row view of a pro shred contest within

a few hours’ drive. Hike up to the pipe and check it. You’ll gain a new respect for the “pipe jocks” when you see someone fire a frontside 1080 about fifteen feet out, only ten feet from where you’re standing on the sidelines. It’s heavy.

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HOW FUN IS SNOWBOARDING? So fun that we don’t even notice how epic it is to ride a chair suspended in midair through the moun-tains in the middle of winter? That’s something that was brought to my attention on a trip to Morocco last winter. Forget doing tricks or even linking turns—the resort was filled with people who were there simply to ride the lift and play around in the snow. These are two things you probably take for granted—one you might even complain about if it isn’t fast enough (nobody complains about too much snow). Like all travel experiences, it was an eye-opener.

Suddenly, I was hyper-aware of the things I might be taking for granted when it comes to snowboarding. After a day of riding, I made a short list of the little things that stoke me out about being a snowboarder—the side effects if you will. They are as follows: road trips with friends, going “hella fast,” wildlife sightings under the chairlift, a solid grab, spraying snow, heckling friends from the lift, mocha breaks, riding with a posse, and finally, how good it feels to take off your boots at the end of the day. What are the little things you love about snowboarding?

In this issue we have a much-anticipated inter-view with Gigi Rüf. Senior Editor Joel Muzzey dug up mind-blowing facts about this under-stated Austrian’s career—for instance, Gigi has

consistently filmed at least one, if not two video parts every year for the last ten years. Who does that? Have we been taking Gigi for granted all these years—expecting that every year he would go ahead and put out another stellar video part and folder full of images to inspire us? Well, if we were, there’s long-overdue acknowledgement in his interview on page 90.

Also, Associate Editor Ben Gavelda took a trip to Jackson Hole and hung out with the ‘Guch for a week. Sounds nice, right? Bryan is one of those riders who has never taken snowboarding for granted; he’s had a long and illustrious professional career which he has parlayed into ten long and illustrious win-ters shredding the steep and deep of Jackson on his own terms. Who better to guide the next generation?

Get stoked.

A n n i e Fa s tEditor-In-Chief

Stoked Out

The Absinthe Effect

Oukaïmeden localsPHOTO: Frode Sandbech

Photographer Ahriel Povich explains this month’s cover shot and something he calls the “Absinthe eff ect”: “The fi rst time I got drunk on absinthe, I threw up in my mouth. I was in Prague and some Czech girls talked me into taking fl aming shots of the vile stuff . Long story short, my stomach was not having it, and neither were the girls. The fi rst time I went out to the backcountry with Absinthe, I nearly shit my pants. I was in St. Luc, and JP Solberg ollied off of a cornice, sending half the mountain down on top of us. Long story short, everyone lived, but we got really lucky. The fi rst time I shaped a kicker with Absinthe, I got my mind blown. I was in Les Crosets, and Gigi Rüf landed the smoothest double cork frontside 1080. Long story short, it’s one of the sickest shots in the movie Neverland.” And now it’s also on the cover.

WAIT, WAIT—THERE’S MORE!Just as the buzz was beginning to quiet down on the

TWS Team Shoot Out, it’s back! Last spring we pitted the Forum, Burton, Rome, and DC snowboard teams against each other. You’ve seen the results in the September issue and on the iTunes video download, but you don’t know the whole story. We hired a film crew to document all four shoots—and this month we’ll share with you exclusive rider interviews, exhausting footage from the resort builds, and some sketchy carnage from this week of progression. Catch the exclusive one-hour behind-the-scenes documentary onMTV2 Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 11:00 p.m. EST/PST (check your local listings for exact times).

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LETTER OF THE MONTHDear TransWorld, I loved your

article on the Arlberg [December ’09]. That area could use a whole lot more attention. It’s a ridicu-lous place to spend a season, for the mountain, the riding, and the village with its amazing après ski. I spent just over four months in St. Anton during the ’07/08 season, working and tear-ing it to shreds every day … well, almost. We owned the run with the avalanche barriers under the Albona that season, until one epic and insane day of powder I tore a hole big enough to engulf a fist into my inside right thigh. After an uncomfortable 22 stitches, we had 29 days of pure Austrian sunshine—perfect for recovery and beers on patios. Thirty days later it dumped again and I was back on the board with a weak leg and a huge smile on my face.

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Thanks for that—we’re gonna go ahead and skip lunch today.

Our Letter Of The Month winner for February is Chris Pisesky— he com-pletely grossed us out with the pic of

his torn-up leg. We figure he can use the altimeter function on his new Nixon Delta watch to dial in that ollie height over the avalanche fences next time. The built-in compass should come in handy in the Arlberg, too.

Mail (which may be edited for clarity, space, and content, or, if dumb, may be passed on to the Angry Interns™) should be sent in marked:

TransWorld SNOWboarding 2052 Corte Del Nogal, Suite 100Carlsbad, California 92011 e-mail: [email protected]

IT’S A WAY OF LIFE Hey TWS, recently I was reading your

December ’09 issue in school and came upon a small article called “The Great Escape” [Framed], and it was one of the gnarest things I have ever heard in my life, and it made me realize that snow-boarding is the one and only sport I will truly love. It’s the only thing that gets me away from all the pressure and you instantly forget what’s wrong in your life and remember why you’re doing this.

Pa u l H o wa r d

Imagine how horrible life would be without snowboarding … no, actually don’t.

“LOOKS THAT KILLED ME” Dear TWS, Looks That Kill? Yeah, I

almost died laughing. I don’t really think fashion should be used in the same sen-tence as snowboarding clothes—2008 was bad, last year was worse, this year I’d rather be seen in sweatpants and roller blades. I heard a rumor that all the snowboard-clothing designers went on strike, and the night janitors were left to do the designing.

J. R i v i e l l o , S t o w e , Ve r m o n t

Okay.

PRETTY FUNNY Hey TransWorld, how’s it hangin’? I’d

just like to say that I literally laughed my ass of while reading the December mag. I think I experienced my first laugh-out-loud while reading something when no

one was around. The thing that made me laugh my ass off was the text under John Jackson’s photo on page 138. Pretty funny stuff. Anyway, keep on rollin’, TransWorld. Later.

E r i k A s g e i r s s o n , G a r d e n t o w n , I c e l a n d

It said, “John Jackson is no stranger to lightin’ up those trees.” Get it?!

FILM SCHOOLEDHey TWS, first off I love the maga-

zine—keep it up. Second is a question: I’m sixteen years old from icy western Pennsylvania, and even though I’m only in grade ten, my school is already getting on my nuts about looking for colleges and thinking about the future. Anyway, I’m really focused on going for some kind of film major. As a snowboarder, I want to find a decent school near some good resorts. So if you guys could lend me a hand and toss me out some ideas for col-lege, I’d really appreciate it. With love.

B e n C o h e n , P i t t s b u r g , P e n n s y l v a n i a

Sick! Hit up the five-day Video Workshop this summer at High Cascade Snowboard Camp August 5–10, 2010 to make sure this is what you want to do. As for the future, Montana State University has a solid film program and it’s near Big Sky and Bridger Bowl resorts. Colorado Film School in Denver and the California College Of The Arts in San Francisco

(Tahoe) are also good options.

FIRST! Wanted to say I still love the mag

after all the years! Been reading pretty much since the beginning ... remember Craig and Terje! Hey, wanted to shout out a message to all—even though I’m in my 30s and my knees are shot and I’m rocking old-school boots and an old beat-up board, I still find a way to get a pass or ticket or hike my ass off to ride every second I can! Thanks TWS and keep riding!

J o n a t h a n K o r n e ly,C o l o r a d o S p r i n g s , C o l o r a d o

Old-school is the new new-school.

SADISTICHey! Last season, I was in a car

accident and broke my ankle pretty bad. I had to get surgery and missed most of my shredding time! I was mis-erable, so I started to read TWS. I got hooked and now I read every issue. I just wanted to say that your mag is super great and it helped me get through my injury. Thanks!

B e n E . , E d m o n t o n ,A B , C a n a d a

We thought it’d be like squeezing lemon in a wound to read all about snowboarding but not be able to do it, then it occurred to us, that’s what we do all summer. It burns in a good way …

TIMELY Dear TransWorld, I enjoy reading

the Timeless section for the page that it is. Shredders need to know more about the history of snowboarding—Terje Haakonsen, Shaun Palmer, the early days of Tahoe, Craig Kelly, and Soda Springs are quickly being forgot-ten. “We have gotten into a habit of discarding our past as if it’s something to be ashamed of.”—Tony Hawk. Your magazine rules.

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TWSNOW.COMThe Gigi interview on page 90 will hype you up about his new movie. We’re frothing for it and just had to know more. So we hit up fi lmer Jake Price for all the details he was at liberty to divulge.

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11th Annual TransWorld SNOWboardingRIDERS’ POLLWatch for complete Riders’ Poll coverage lead-ing up to the awards show, and from the Fillmore in Denver on Friday, January 29, (the X Games men’s pipe finals are the opening act, tune into twsnow.com right afterward for the main event).

RIDERS AS EDITORSThere are a lot of renaissance shreds doubling as moviemakers these days. You’ve got Grenier, TJ Schneider, and Jed Anderson, just to name a few. We’ll be compiling all their best edits and firing some questions at them about life in front of and behind the lens this month online.

FIRST PEEKAT NEW PRODUCTSWe’ll be rolling out photo galleries full of all the new proddy on display at the SIA trade show during the whole month of February.

It was the biggest winter in Morocco in the last two decades—you know there’s more to the story than the feature on page 82. Check the site for the exclusive Roxy video edit and more epic photos from Frode Sandbech.

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IN RESORT NEWS …Jeremy Cooper

took over this winter at Park City Mountain

Resort as the terrain park manager. Cooper earned his stripes at Mammoth and was most recently in charge of June’s park. With that kind of background, you can expect that he’ll pick up right where Jim Manganleft off and continue Park City’s tradition of top-notch park building. If you haven’t yet experienced the

plethora of park features found at Park City, now is the time. The Park City Quick START (Ski Today And Ride Today) program is being offered up again this winter and just another reason to makes moves toward Utah. With Quick START you can turn your airline-boarding pass into a same-day lift ticket at either The Canyons Resort or Park City Mountain Resort. That’s right, fl y into Salt Lake, hustle up to the mountains, pull the parking-lot kit change, and cash your

crumpled plane ticket in for a fresh lift ticket. Longtime June Park crewer Sam Poffl ey has also taken over as the terrain park manager at June Mountain resort.

Whistler/Blackcomb has a new promo movie out on the Internet. They’re calling it On the Shoulders Of Giants. It’s more or less a PR piece, but with a lot stunning Planet Earth-esque scenic shots, some footy from the Sandbox, Alterna, and Absinthe crews, a look at the feat that was

building the Peak 2 Peak Gondolaand a little history mixed in for good measure, it’s defi nitely worth a watch. Cruise to whistlerblackcomb.com for more info.

IN PRODUCT NEWS …We love boarding and boobs. And

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FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, it’s rare to be somewhere without cell phone service, but for the shred set who are out seeking untracked mountains in remote backcountry locales, it’s easy to end up incommunicado. And being out of touch with the outside world is sketchy when you’re out pushing your limits without a lifeline.

Enter the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger. This little device can provide the line of communication you need should shit hit the fan. Thanks to satellites, SPOT works virtually anywhere in the world and allows the user to alert family, friends, or emergency services of both your whereabouts and what’s going on.

Here’s a quick rundown of the fi ve functions on the new Spot Satellite GPS Messenger:

SOS/911: This function is for life-threatening or otherwise critical emergencies. It alerts emergency services of your GPS location and that you need assistance.HELP: This function is for a non-life-threatening emergency and can be used to notify your personal contacts that you need help.CHECK-IN/OK: This function has a pre-programmed message that lets your friends and family (most likely Mom) know that you’re okay and gives your exact GPS location.CUSTOM MESSAGE: You choose the message this function sends to your friends and/or family with your GPS location.TRACK PROGRESS: This allows you to send and save your location, and with help from Google Maps, it also lets your contacts track your progress in near real time.

Tools Of The Trade:SPOT SATELLITE GPS MESSENGER

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LOOK OUT FOR: The Monday Minutes and a lot of other tight skate and snow edits, some poached Videograss shots, the obligatory YouTube oddities, a death-metal parrot, fl yers for all kinds of events worth checking out, and the local weather forecast for Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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You’ve seen what DC’s Ken Blockcan do with a car on snow. If not, please reference before reading on.

Wild, huh? Okay, now try and imagine what that dude will be able to do with a car that’s made for the snow. And that’s what he’s rolling now. Word is Ken linked up with Subaru to make “the world’s fastest cat track operation automobile for backcountry access.” They’re calling it the TRAX STI. And of course you can see it in action for yourself on… where else but YouTube.

There’s a new headphone company in the mix. What else is new, right? Well, Aerial7 is new and “founded on

the idea that sound can be combined with awesome, eye-catching design.” The fi rst line of headies includes four different models and the sound disk beanie, which has headphones built right into it. The headphones are also “multi-device compatible,” which means they’ve got a mic and will work with the iPhone and Blackberry. Oh yeah, and Heikki Sorsa is on their team and running ’em. More at aerial7.com.

IN SPONSORSHIP NEWS…Sebastien Toutant, a.k.a. Seb

Touts, who you might remember from last issue’s “Crazy Eight” feature. Haven’t read that one yet? You’re blowing it. Anyways, Mr. Toots will now be riding for Ride Snowboards,so expect to see him killing it at all kinds of competitions on his new Ride boards this winter. Tadashi Fuse got himself a new garb sponsor and will now be braving the elements in Billabong outerwear.

“Snowboarding has given so much to me that I hope to enrich the sport and make it better by running an authentic company that is focused on innovative and more sustainable products as well as inspiring old and new riders to get into the moun-tains and ride.”For the full interview with Jeremy and more about Jones Snowboards, visit quotethis.transworld.net.

The good dudes at Volcom hooked up a board to give away this month. This is the very same board that Gigi rides. You can’t buy these anywhere in the world, so basically it’ll be just you and the rest of the Volcom family ripping around on ’em. Imagine that!

Volcom has always been know for its entirely tripped-out artwork, and this year’s line of boards is no exception. So, to keep weird coming, we want to see what you got. Mock up your oddest, most out-of-this-world, electric-Kool-Aid acid-trip-inspired topsheet art and send it our way. The most bizarre design wins.

E-mail your entries to [email protected]. Or drop ’em in the mailbox addressed to: TransWorld SNOWboarding/Volcom Giveaway2052 Corte Del Nogal, Suite 100 Carlsbad, California 92011

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—JEREMY JONES, big-mountain madman/snowboard company owner.

What would we do if skateboarders weren’t around? Whose ideas would we steal? The latest bite is Sno Dice. These four dice are just like the ones you’ve probably seen on The Berrics. For those who ain’t hip, here’s the deal: they’re dice with snowboard tricks on them. You get your homeys together, gather round, roll ’em, and do the trick that comes up.

There are two sets for sale—one is a jump version and the other is for rails. You can order them from the Web site, and they’re eight bucks for either set, or thirteen for both, and shipping is included. But, we’re also guessing you’ll be able to fi nd ’em in your local shop before you know it.

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Tara Dakides also picked up a new outfi tter and will now be seen in Sessions outfi ts. Markku Koski now sports a new toque atop his head as the latest addition to the Vivo headwear team.

And while riders the world around are gulping down carbonated sugar water Risto Mattila will be building his bones with Tazza. The Finnish chocolate milk brand and Mr. Mattila linked up in what the press releases are

calling a “joint promotion” (hard to tell if there’s pun intended in that one).

In other after-school snack food news, Mason Aguirre is now riding for Totino’s, makers of Pizza Rolls and Party Pizzas. Mason joins fellow Frend Danny Davis on the team.

Drop gloves recently announced the addition of four new snowboarders to its global team. Heikki Sorsa, Romain de Marchi, Forest Bailey, and Adam Dowell will all be protecting

their digits with Drop gloves. And these four join the current team that includes Simon Chamberlain, Mark Landvik, Josh Sherman, Andrew Hardingham, and Jacqui Berg.

Time is on Spencer O’Brien’sside. She’s the newest member of the Nixon team. Mikkel Bang is now protecting his pupils with Oakley optics. And Chas Guldemond is the newest casualty of the economic crunch. He was cut from DC.

IN OTHER NEWS…Bud Fawcett is a pioneer of

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2010 Winter Olympics—Snowboard Events at Cypress Mountain, Vancouver, Canada. It’s back after four years! Event qualifi-ers and finals are on the same days: Men’s Snowboardcross on Monday (2/15), Women’s Snowboardcross on Tuesday (2/16), Men’s Superpipe on Wednesday (2/17) and Women’s Superpipe on Thursday (2/18), followed by Snowboarding Parallel GS Friday and Saturday February 27 and 28. Let the games begin! Log on to twsnow.com/Olympics—we’ll get you behind the scenes with the riders so you’ll be the first to know everything that’s happening … and about to happen.

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Burton Canadian Open at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. The Open series includes five stops worldwide starting with New Zealand in the summer and ending at the U.S. Open in March. It’s an open event, so anyone can enter to win a chance at this stop’s 50,000-dollar cash purse. This is also a 5-star TTR pipe and slopestyle comp. Bring it, Canada!

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Nikita Chickita at Brighton, Utah. Girls—do not pass up this contest. After many moons at Mammoth, the new location in Utah should bring with it a whole new vibe and a new batch of riders for both the pro and am divisions—last year there were 70 total competitors on the slopes … and on the dance floor later that night. More info at nikitaclothing.com

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“Thanks to both my fame and my infamy, my name is one of

the most identifiable in the history of snowboarding,” writes Ross Rebagliati in his new book Off The Chain.

If you don’t remember Ross, or were too young, here’s a quick refresher: Rebagliati earned his fame by becoming the first snowboarder to win an Olympic Gold medal. Ross is a Canadian racer and took gold in the Giant Slalom. The infamy came after the award ceremonies when Ross failed a drug test and was stripped of his medal. The decision was later over-turned and Ross was given his medal back, but not after a lot of damage was already done. The details of this debacle are covered in the book, but Ross goes even further and asserts that the whole thing might have been setup by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to tarnish the image of snowboarders.

“When the IOC finally allowed snowboarding as an Olympic event, it did so grudgingly, with the lingering feeling that the sport’s image was not appropriate for the Olympics,” writes Ross. “When I tested positive for mari-juana during those pre-Games doping controls, the FIS said nothing so that, should I win at the Olympics, the IOC could seize the opportunity to show snowboarders what would happen if we didn’t straighten up.”

Intrigued? You should be. Ross’ story is an important part of snow-boarding history and worth the read.

OFF THE CHAINAN INSIDER’S HISTORY OF SNOWBOARDINGBy Ross Rebagliati

from his Web site. The address is budfawcett.printroom.com, and you can choose from a couple dozen different print options. He selling everything from refrigerator magnets to museum-mount 30x40s.

Hannah Teter continues to use her snowboard celebrity status to do good. You might remember she started a maple syrup company called Hannah’s Gold and is donating all the profi ts to charity. Most recently

Hannah appeared in PETA’s new “Save The Seals” campaign, which aims to raise awareness about the seal slaughter taking place up on Canada’s ice fl oes. For more on Hannah and how to follow her example visit hannahsgold.com.

Ross Rebagliati is entering the political arena. Word is Rebagliati is seeking the Federal Liberal Party nomination for the Okanagan-Coquihalla region in British Columbia.

It’s Rebagliati’s fi rst foray into politics,and after the shit storm of publicity that descended upon him after he was stripped of his Olympic gold (which was reinstated), we’re thinking he’s pretty well prepared for politics.

In celebrities as snowboarders news, Pamela Anderson appears to be the newest member of the tribe. Well, that might be a bit of a stretch, but Pam was seen strapped in and sliding some boxes (keep your mind

outta the gutter) in Malibu earlier this fall. The photo shoot was part of a U.S. Snowboarding Team pre-Olympicpublicity stunt/fundraiser. Snow was trucked in and a few features were set up in someone’s Malibu backyard, so Pam and a few “celebrity families” could learn to ride. If you haven’t seen these shots on the Internet yet, go Google it. She was shredding in a mini-skirt.

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What’s up with the new KR3W crew? Are you hyped to be riding

for those guys? Do you have a signature skinny pair of pants in the

works? KR3W is just doing street clothes, not trying to compete with any

outerwear companies. I’m super excited to be riding for those guys,

though! Everyone on the team is pretty much my favorite snowboarder.

KR3W is an awesome company, and everyone that works for them is really

awesome, too. And no, I’m not getting a signature pant.

There are a lot of cool preseason jib spots up in the woods outside Salt

Lake, how did all these stashes come about? I think kids just get really

antsy to get snowboarding, so they make there own little log rides or rails

before the resort opens. It’s nice for guys that fi lm because we don’t really

get to ride that much before we are on our fi rst rail trip of the season.

Which riders do you like shredding with the most? Jon [Kooley], Jordan

[Mendenhall], Jake [Welch], Ben G [Gustafson], Harrison [Gordon], Jarad

[Hadi], Cody [Comrie] … Any of my friends.

Which snowboarders do you look up to? There are so many that I have

looked up to at one point in time ... Jordan, Jon, [Justin] Hebbel, Seth [Huot],

Darrell [Mathes], Travis Parker ... I could go on for a while.

Do you want to do more snowboarding in the backcountry? I fi nally got

a snowmobile, so I will defi nitely be in the backcountry this year. I’m really

excited about it. Last year I got hurt and didn’t really have the money to buy

a sled, so it couldn’t really happen. It will be fun to give it a shot this year.

How’s the current economic climate for an up-and-coming

snowboarder? Do you have any prospects for a board sponsor? It

sucks. I’m barely squeaking by and having to do a few different odd jobs

so I can actually travel this year. I’m dog sitting and doing deliveries for a

jewelry store. But I’m still pretty happy with where I’m at. I don’t really like

to complain about it because I have been very fortunate so far. I have a

few prospects for a board sponsor, nothing has been fi nalized yet though.

Keeping my fi ngers crossed! I’ve been riding Nitros because Tonino is a

nice guy and he has been getting me a few decks here and there.

What’s your plan for the winter? This season I’m fi lming with Videograss.

I’m super excited to be fi lming with those guys, too. Should be the best

time.

What the most important lesson you’ve learned from snowboarding?

To not talk poorly about other people. I’m sick of how much hate there is in

snowboarding. I know it’s going to happen regardless, but I’m going to try

to not be the one doing it.

What do you value most in life? Family and friends.

What’s one piece of good advice you’ve received lately? Grab the bull

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CONS: He also mentions, “It’s a little squirrelly at high speeds and on jump landings. It feels like transferring from edge to edge is slower because you have to lean farther to get on edge.”

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CONS: “At $90 a pop, these little gems are pricey. The reality is, if you can afford an iPhone, you can probably afford these, as well. In my opinion, they are worth the splurge,” says Caroline.

VERDICT: “You can keep that expensive iPhone tucked safely away in your jacket but still answer calls or change the track whenever you want. The mic is awesome—you can literally hold a conversa-tion while hitting a jump! These earbuds sounded better than any I have ever owned. And yes, the cord stays untangled, so you are not spending time fixing it in the liftline like usual. I’d buy these in a heartbeat.”

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preserving snowboarding’s renegade roots.

The year was 1983, and the place was Sunnyvale, California just outside San Jose. Amidst Reaganomics-era America, 21-year-old skateboarder, snowboarder, and punk rocker Joel Gomez borrowed funds from friends and family and opened the very first snowboard-specific retail shop in the country. He called it Sessions. Plastered with punk-rock posters and a living embodiment of the skate/snow culture at the time, the storefront was groundbreaking in its own right—but would not be the brand’s final manifestation. Under Gomez’s tutelage, Sessions exploded into a music label (releasing records from the Descendents, AFI, and the Foo Fighters) and the innovative outerwear manufacturer it is today.

So how did a pool skater from the Bay Area get into snowboarding? Through Steve Caballero, of course. Around 1980, the legendary skateboarder had been shredding the Tahoe City Halfpipe and told his friend Joel all about it. “Once I saw the picture of Cab doing an invert on a snowboard, I knew I had to try it,” says Gomez, who quickly added snowboarding to his boardsports repertoire.

By 1982, Gomez was helping Tom Sims sell Sims Snowboards throughout the Bay Area. “One day I walked out of a surf shop and realized that if I opened up my own store, I could listen to punk music and be around skateboards and snowboards all day every day—a dream come true for me.” As a Chicano kid who grew up working the fields with his mom and brothers, Gomez wasn’t blessed with disposable income. He had to borrow funds to get things going, but an ultra-low cost of living allowed him to put almost every cent right back into the company. Modeling it after his bedroom, which was bedecked with punk posters and old surf, skate, and snowboards, Gomez created more than just a store—it was a hangout haven with its own gritty culture and flavor.

Punk records and T-shirts found their way into Sessions’ inventory and helped develop sales, but another new project was on the horizon—Gomez was designing snowboard-specific outerwear. Officially founded in 1988, Sessions Outerwear quickly became a driving force of West Coast snow-board culture. But it was far from simply fashion—Sessions kept ahead of the pack by innovating and taking chances. In the early 90s, the company

helped pioneer the use of Gore-Tex and the idea of signature rider outerwear, releasing pieces bearing the names of Jamie Lynn, John Cardiel, and Tara Dakides. According to Gomez, Sessions was also the first snowboard company to incorporate Recco avalanche rescue systems, Skullcandy headphones, and D3o shock-absorption technology.

A quarter century later, a few things have changed. Sessions Records is “on sabbatical,” says Joel. “I do it more for the love than the money—it’s a time consuming and costly hobby.” However, Sessions Outerwear is an internationally distrib-uted and award-winning brand that’s barreling forward even as many privately owned companies flail. What’s the secret? Sticking to what you know. Sessions makes outerwear—not watches, not bind-ings, not boots or snowboards. While other brands diversify their crops, Sessions maintains a fierce focus on making the best, technically advanced outwear possible.

Another change, however, is that Sessions has enlisted some financial help from Samsung America by selling the brand and trademark rights to a new company, Sessions LLC, which has Samsung amongst its shareholders. Confusing, no? Gomez says simply,

“We are still privately owned and operated.” And don’t worry—Sessions is still rock and roll, as

evidenced by such rock-band collaborations as the Metallica jacket boasting Skullcandy speakers on the hood. What else? Gomez is still excited about blistering guitars, about “making cool outerwear,” and about taking steep powder runs with friends. Some things never change, you know?

“ONCE I SAW THE PICTURE OF CAB DOING AN INVERT ON A SNOWBOARD, I KNEW I HAD TO TRY IT.”

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Why do you ride?Most people wouldn’t guess that I’m scared shitless half the time. But I ride ’cause I love that feeling you get after you do a trick or do something you’re scared of. I’m addicted to it. A piece of advice I got when I was younger that stuck with me is, “Do one thing every day that scares you.” I think that helps you take advantage of every day you’re breathing.

Does snowboarding ever feel like a job? Yeah, when you’re on the road for a month and you’re missing birthdays and all that stuff, it can feel like a job. That doesn’t hap-pen very often though. For the most part I’m just happy that this is what I get to do with my life.

How many days a season do you spend in the backcountry? What have you learned from the mountains?Unfortunately, I don’t get to spend as much time as I want to, what with contests, rails, and weather not cooperating. I’d round it to maybe 30 days a year sledding. But when you’re out there you feel so small. Like you don’t matter. It’s really nice.

What was the first snowboard movie you bought? The first movie my family bought was TB2. I think they got it for my brothers, but I was hooked to it. Jamie Lynn’s Cab five is so sick, and his frontside three melon hip poke thing too. And telling the story about splitting the kid’s head open. Noah had

the Sims board with trucks on the base with “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver” for a song, and Terje had the wooden sword base and ender if I remember correctly. I watched that video nonstop.

Have you seen the teasers for that new reality TV show Peak Season, filmed in Whistler? What do you think of it? I think it’s funny. It makes Whistler out to be a whole lot different than it actually is though. There’re so many rad people in that town that aren’t involved in drama and the bar scene that it would suck if this show changed the view the rest of the world had for us. In all fairness, though, everyone gets caught in some drama now and again, but I just don’t know if it’s right to show the whole world.

Birthdate: 4/20/1986

Home: Kelowna, B.C., Canada

Home mountain: Big White and Whistler

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Mark Sollors

“MARK CAN SHRED HIS FACE OFF! HE’S BEEN GETTIN’ PLAY IN CANADA FOR YEARS, AND IT’S ABOUT TIME FOR THIS CHECK OUT!”— M i k e y R e n c z

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What’s life in Rutland like? Life in Rutland is amazing. There’re crazy groups of people livin’ there. We’ve got so many varieties of people: fiends, red-necks, townies, innies, NY dudes tryin’ to hustle, skaters, punks, snowboarders, and roided-out jocks. When you go out, it’s the best people watching ever!

How bummed were you when you sunk your sled last winter? Was it insured? What were you thinking? I wasn’t that bummed then, still not that bummed. Gotta pick it up and pay for it next week, gonna cost me 2,800 bucks, then I might be a little bummed. I was just tryin’ to get loose. Just gonna

throw this out there, I made it across the lake a bunch, too.

How many tries did it take you to get that frontside boardslide transfer to 50-50 in your video part? How gripped were you trying that? It took a while. At first I would just front board and pop to flat past the down ledge. I wasn’t that shook tryin’ it. We were around that spot doin’ other shit for two days and I couldn’t stop lookin’ at it. Had to bust it.

Which snowboarders are you most hyped on? Everyone I film with gets me hyped, especially the Forum crew and the GBP crew. GBP

crew is all the Rutland homeys I film with.

Where do you want to take your snowboarding? I just wanna film. That’s what’s makin’ me feel the best right now, just being in the streets filming. I also wanna get into the backcountry a lot more and get at that.

Did you ever think you’d be riding alongside guys like Peter Line, Eddie Wall, and Joni Malmi? What’s that like? Honestly, it’s a little crazy to think about it sometimes. But it’s so normal when we all hang out. They’re all good classic guys.

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Birthdate: 4/5/1989

Home: Rutland, Vermont and Truckee, California

Home mountain: Killington

Sponsors: Forum, Special Blend, LRG, Electric, Darkside

Stance: Regular

Video parts: Forum’s Forever and the new Rutland video

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In Montafon, Austria you’d be hard-pressed to fi nd apu-pu platter, but if you look deep like Marco here, you’ll fi nd plenty of pillow platters.

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MARCO FEICHTNER

BOARD: Ride DH 155 ($460)

BOOTS: Deeluxe ID Fichtl size 8 ($240)

BINDINGS: Ride EX ($160)

JACKET: 686Mannual Antic Jacket ($150)

PANTS: 686Smarty Original Cargo ($200)

GLOVES: Level Utah ($110)

GOGGLES: Electric EG1 ($95)

In his native land of Austria, Marco operates under the guise Fichtl. It’s his nickname and it’s stitched to his pro model boots with a scruffy skull and bones drawing to paying homage to his

roots in the Pirates film crew.

Sponsors: Ride, 686, Deeluxe, Electric,

Level, Clast, Himaya, Skullcandy, Sajas Skate

& Snowshop, Skins, Pirates

Years snowboarding: Sixteen

Roots: St. Gallenkirch, Austria

Home: St. Gallenkirch, Austria

Height: 5’4’’

Weight: 142 lbs

Stance: Goofy, 22.5 inches wide with fi fteen

degrees in front and negative-twelve de-

grees on the back.

Forward lean: None.

Personal settings: I like to have a little bit

longer nose, so I set my stance back a little.

Also, a good sticker job is always important

to me.

Tuning techniques: I like to have a nicely

waxed board, I also like to detune the edges

on the nose and tail.

Most important part of your setup: My

stance.

Describe your riding style: Austrian

mountain rat style!

BEANIE: I’m always changing my beanies, this one came from a street market in L.A.

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CHRIS GRENIER

Age: 22Hometown: Southboro, MassachusettsSponsors: Salomon, ThirtyTwo, etnies, LRG, Celtek, Magical Go-Go, Fat Trax Snowboard Shop, Cobra Dogs

“I think I would be Mike Michalchuk. I remember I used to get so psyched watching that guy ride—I had a huge poster of him doing a method on my wall. That guy was such a f—king beast, he would go so huge and do tons of flips. He was doing double flips in old, shitty halfpipes, and I think that’s pretty rad.”

We all had our favorite riders. Those guys whose posters we hung up, riders who made us dream of rodeos and double-kinks … We would all—yes, secretly and in the world of make-believe—like to step into the boots of someone like Nicolas Müller or Torstein Horgmo for a day, to just rip the mountain apart, right? So, we asked a few current pros who they would be for a day in fantasyland.

If you could be any pro shredder from the past for one day, who would you be?

LOUIS-FELIX PARADIS

Age: 23Hometown: Québec City, Québec, CanadaSponsors: Salomon, Bonfi re, Ashbury, DVS, Matix, iFound, Deluxe Boardshop

“I would be Travis Parker. I really like his style, he looks like he’s floating all the time, like he’s super light on his board. That day he did both the back-side rodeo 900 and 1080 at the end of his part in Lame would probably be a good one, because riding away from those two tricks must have felt so good. To have his style and abilities for one day would be amazing!”

LAURENT-NICOLAS PAQUIN

Age: 23Hometown: Charny, Québec, CanadaSponsors: Rome, Holden, Ashbury, RVCA, Elm, Empire

“I would have to say Scotty Wittlake. He was one of the best riders out there. He’s one of the first to just dress like he wanted and ride what he wanted. He did some pretty amazing things on rails, powder, and jumps. I always enjoyed his video parts—they made me want to go out and thrash some rail or go huge on a jump without grabbing my board. Being Scotty Wittlake for a day would be rad as f—k!”

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AfricaWe were standing by the side of a trashed-out creek below the makeshift Coca-Cola refresh-

ment stand next to the loading station for the only lift leading to the top of Morocco’s Oukaïmeden resort in the Atlas Mountains. Three boys tied up their donkeys and gladly built our jump for the price of twenty dirhams—about three dollars. It equaled out to the same price as the donkey ride they were offering from the parking lot to the lift. The lift wasn’t currently running, in fact neither was the electricity, the water, or the roads—an overnight blizzard had shut this mountain village down, but had left us with plenty of snow—it was on, or at least about to be … we thought.

Last winter the mountains of Morocco experienced the most snow in more than two decades, and we hit it perfect.

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Kjersti Buass boosts a big air over some of the more modern architecture found in the Atlas Mountains.


THE CHAIRLIFT WAS MORE LIKE ACARNIVAL RIDE THAN A MEANS OF

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By this time we had been in Morocco for a week. It was early March when we met up in Marrakesh, the closest city to the Atlas Mountains—Northern Africa’s highest range at 13,671 feet. Our crew came together quickly with the help of Roxy Europe—Erin Comstock, Torah Bright, Kjersti Buass, Lisa Wiik, and Slovakian rider Basa Stevulova rallied together along with an entourage of media and guides—the snow was there, we just had to get there … quickly. As our crew trickled in from all corners of the planet, we had a few days dizzily exploring this exotic and foreign desert city—we relaxed in the quietness of our Moroccan riad hotel guzzling sweet green tea under the open skies with satin-pillow-lined hideaways, heavy drapes, and a reflecting pool. One step out the non-descript door, and we were hurled headfirst into a maze of loud, narrow-walled streets—dodging scooters loaded down with entire families, donkey cart trucks in a hurry, and small cars squeezing past. We made our way to Marrakesh’s main square called Djemaa el-Fna—it’s discombobulating, there’s the constant high-pitched flutes of the snake charmer, the guys with the spinning hats and finger tambourines, the constant beat of the drummers drumming, and swirling crowds of people under a hot, beating sun.

We sampled the local food—aromatic tagines cooked in a tandoori, couscous, apricots, and fresh squeezed orange juice. Our crew of blonde girls stood out in the crowd, but that didn’t intimidate anyone from diving headfirst into the carnival atmosphere—Kjersti and Basa came out with henna tattoos, Erin had a snake draped over her head, while Torah made friends with the monkeys. It was Morocco condensed—and it was hard to believe that we’d be doing any sort of snowboarding here, but through the haze, on the horizon we could see the white-peaked Atlas Mountains.

We made the two-hour drive up to the mountains with Erin bravely behind the wheel of the rented SUV, and our guides Stefan from Chamonix, who runs a surf camp near Casablanca in the summers, and Hamidi, who is Berber (the indigenous mountain people of North Africa) and a former Olympic skier. We were in good hands with them leading the way. The drive took us through the suburbs, then into sparsely populated foothills, then to a winding mountain pass through heartbreakingly poor roadside villages.

It was a staggering change of scenery in such a short drive. We went from masses of humanity in a primarily Muslim city to a quiet resort village. A mix of traditional stone Berber houses built into the mountainsides and more modern hotels with a French feel to them welcomed us into the valley, and the peak looming 2,175 feet. Not knowing what to expect, we were relieved to see a solid base of snow at the resort and lots of terrain. The resort has two beginner surface tows and a chairlift that reaches the summit. We paid 100 dirhams (thirteen dollars) at the lift shack for an all-day pass.

The chairlift was more like a carnival ride than a means of uphill transport with scenic riders on “Le Journee” kitted out in ski boots (which seemed to be mandatory for walking on the snow) emitting raucous cheers as the chair swept group after group up into the air. Up at the top, we took in the contrasting views of frosty white peaks to the north and endless desert to the south, and dropped into the consistently steep, long pitch—fun enough freeriding—mind-blowing considering it was Africa. Africa! But it wasn’t going to last. A few more days of evermore hardening conditions passed and then blasting winds from the Sahara—the world’s largest desert—kicked in, and the

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Is it bad to have a bunch of leftover lift parts? Erin Comstock fi nds the upside.


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DAY WHITE TURNED TO RED.

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next day white turned to red; sand covered the mountains and shut down our plans of heading into the tempting backcountry. Should we go for a camel ride instead? Tempting, but we were here to ride our boards.

Undeterred by the sandstorm, we continued to make the best of it—the views were incredible and there were plenty of spots to ride around the vil-lage. This already-dramatic setting was even more exaggerated by the tongue of fog that began rolling in and out of the valley throughout the afternoon, alternating from sunny to whiteout and back. The riders delicately jibbed the stone houses built into the hillside where we assumed people lived only during the summers—it was stark and cold looking, but at the end of the day, we saw people walking home up the now-obvious snowy paths, stowing their donkeys in the lower-level stables with stifling, putrid, air—they’d come bucking and snorting out in the morning gasping. Oh the smell … eye-bleeding.

Days of jibbing passed with the promise of snow just over the horizon.

Then one morning we woke up without heat, electricity, or running water and over a foot of fresh snow on the ground—not surprisingly the third world infrastructure snapped under the weight of this snowfall. The unprepared hotel staff hit us up for gas from our cars to fuel the generator, the roads were closed, and we were basically stranded. Well enough. The crew was somewhat beat down by this point—Basa with a broken finger, Torah with a tweaked shoulder, and poor Lisa, she had stretched out her collar muscles and was sporting a neck brace.

We were three days from our departure and had yet to really explore the upper mountain since those first few days—the deep powder arrived just in time! It was a waiting game for the lift to open and for the electricity to come back on—rumors gave us hope and then let us down. At night it was icebox cold in our concrete mountain chalet, we huddled around the fire in the candlelit lounge and used headlamps to navigate the dark hallways. It was surreal.

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A long-ago abandoned archaeological site, right? Nope, Torah Bright airs over an occupied Berber neighborhood. Brr.


Which brings us back to the riverside jump. Our fellow tourists had arrived by the busload once the roads reopened. The beginners rented skis that were long past their prime and went for walks along flat cattracks, shuffling around the lower mountain. The parking lot took on the look of the market scene back down in Marrakesh with vendors selling walnuts and sticky-sweet sesame seed bars for snacks; fistfuls of rosemary and sage for the tagine and mint for tea; stone necklaces, donkey rides, sled rides, and ski lessons were all on offer—name your price, or in the case of the dueling sesame bar vendors, allow them to holler it at the top of their lungs as the crowds shuffle past—“Dirham! Dirham! Dirham!” Some local people stopped to watch Erin, Basa, and Kjersti jump over the river—we thought the site of girls in action would be a showstopper—but the unusually snowy landscape had everyone’s full attention. The heated session continued with only the necklace sellers as witnesses—sure that there was a customer among us … as soon as the strange girls were finished flinging themselves over this river.

Still, there remained the problem of fresh powder and the closed lifts, and by the final day, with the lifts still not running, our guide Stefan was tweaking, so we took the ascent on foot. He strapped on his skis and skins, I put on my snowshoes and we hiked to the top of the mountain. It was stunning. We rode through bouncy, fresh powder off the steep summit following a shoulder down through some chutes and out into wide-open snowfields ending where the crowds gathered at the rope tow. And once again, no single person even flinched when we skidded into the base breathing heavy and delirious, our track behind us leading to the summit.

It was a realization that came to me somewhere in the middle of the mad-ness of the Casablanca airport on the way home—where the security line flowed right around the gates, and the guards smoked, and our fellow travelers’ exotic tribal garb seemed to come from somewhere even more foreign, did I really realize the miracle of our trip—we rode blower powder in Africa—Africa—and the conditions were as good as any we had ever experienced.


YOU CAN TOOOWe flew into Marrakesh via Casablanca on Air Moroc during the

first week of March. We stayed at the Riad Pachavana in Marrakesh (pachavana.com)—it’s a short walk from the main square (Djemaa el-Fna) and marketplace (Souq). Driving isn’t recommended, so take a taxi from the airport to the Riad, and yes, to the resort and back (it is about 45 windy miles each way). We stayed at Le Courchevel Hotel at Oukaïmeden, but it’s not unusual to just hit up the resort for one day and head back down. Lift tickets cost 100 dirham cash, and the season runs from January until late March.

THE HEATED SESSION CONTINUEDWITH ONLY THE NECKLACE SELLERSAS WITNESSES—SURE THAT THERE

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Ayoung boy raised in the mountains discovers himself there—the power of his youth ignited by a natural order in motion all around him. Changing and growing with the seasons, breathing the breath of the mountains

and going forth to the rhythms of nature, he becomes himself. The mountains nurture and prepare him. And from these heights, he descends, to walk among the flatlanders with a secret wisdom—the mysteries of the wind and the bright songs of nature’s voice ringing in his ears. Among us, thus he arrives.

Christian “Gigi” Rüf emerged on the international snowboard scene a decade ago—wide-eyed, guileless, and gifted. Hailing from a sleepy farming

village in Austria, he met the challenges of the snowboard game with easy style. In the interval of then and the impending now, Gigi Rüf has ridden his way into the collective consciousness of snowboarding—inviting us into his singular world of snowbound discovery. And as sure as the changing of the seasons, we witness his exploits on film and in photos, year upon year. He is one of the greats—a credit to our culture. But it’s not about tricks. His approach to riding stirs within us—the viewer, the fan, and the aspirant—a hunger for a deeper connection to the snow and its manifold gifts. And in this way, he leads us out into the mountains, into our own self-discovery.

AN INTERVIEW WITH GIGI RÜFAN INTERVIEW

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What are you going to do down in Patagonia?

What makes you go in a situation like that?

And you’re still getting chased around the resort

by ski patrol?

Where was that dam you jumped off in Neverland?

Crunched for time due to his travel schedule, this interview was conducted via telephone during Gigi’s layover in New York on his way to South America. He was headed to Patagonia to begin fi lming for his new movie project. After seven hours in the sky over the Atlantic, Gigi was just as spry and talkative as usual. And so, we began.

His video segments are always chock-full of ridiculous pow, but Gigi also manages to ride a few unique obstacles to round out the part. Last year in Over Seas, he looped a pedestrian tunnel and handplanted a house to land on our March 2009 cover. This year he bomb-dropped a big dam, gapped out to bonk a chairlift, and jibbed some sketchy-looking avalanche bomb pipes.

This scene sounds pretty sketchy. Have you ever wondered what motivates riders to step-up when good sense, logic, and the law would be telling them to step-down?

We’re going on a crazy boat with a heli-copter on it—looking for pow in Patagonia. The owner of Nomads Of The Sea invited me; they’re this outfit that runs expeditions all over the world. Basically, it’s a gift cer-tificate for $70,000—a trip I couldn’t pass up. Sounds crazy, huh? Pretty posh. All I’m hoping for is some good snow and that El Niño isn’t going to f—k up too much for us with warm weather.

That was in Cervinia, Italy. I wasn’t even gonna hit that thing—I was following Romain [De Marchi]—it was a very windy day and we were just looking for some shelter; there’s nothing more sheltered than a big wall, so we went up there. I basically hiked around in Romain’s bootpack looking at it. Everyone down below at the resort could see us, so I knew we had to do it quick. I could barely get over the fear to jump off—I was hanging over to look and could see some metal spikes down there, and I

didn’t really know how shallow the landing would be. I could tell that a hassle would be coming—so I just jumped in switch but didn’t make it that clean. I unstrapped and went back up—I had no setup time, so I just jumped in regular. After that, I was stressing pretty hard about getting in trouble with the police. Halfway down from the dam, I actually pulled off my boots and turned my red pants inside out so I didn’t fit the description—a little precaution.

Well, in that situation, I was thinking maybe if I get caught, the authorities will make me pay some fines or something, but if I make it, I get a good shot in the can and maybe make some money! I knew that I could do it—it’s just a bomb drop, like jumping off a balcony at home, something I’ve been doing since I was a kid.

Yeah, sure. There are places I go where I find progression, like Alaska. Up there, the terrain offers you everything—it’s endless, but you have to learn how to manage it all. You think, “I want to do that,” but then the real question is, “Can I do that?” It’s all a big question mark. You either overcome and find the answer, or you end up just doing easy stuff. But at home and at resorts, I just want ride whatever is there—whatever is

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The Dead Kennedy’s song “Moon Over Marin” was the perfect soundtrack for

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Gigi’s favorite jumps require no shoveling. Just speed. Haines, Alaska. PHOTO: Cole Barash


Like bonking that chairlift in your part? You grew up in snowboard

movies—started filming when you were just a kid.

What do you think when you look back at all

those videos?

You’ve reached this point, as you said, that you just

want to ride what you want—does filming with the Absinthe crew give

you that freedom?

What draws you to these random obstacles?

Do you draw inspiration from other riders at all?

In 2000, Gigi came to the U.S. for the TransWorld Team Challenge. Instead of a week, he stayed for two months and filmed a part for Kingpin films’ Destroyer. Since then he has consistently produced at least one video part every season, often two. We’re talking ten years deep and he hasn’t missed a single season.

in front of me. I like to go and not ride the park—kind of showing off—but riding every-where else. And I don’t care if I piss off some lifties, I just wanna snowboard what I see.

Yeah, well, the whole competition federation went to shit, so … I got the chance to film—I was lucky, and I definitely wanted to make my living as a snowboarder, traveling.

Well, I look at them from a distance. For the newest video part, I’m always self-critical. But I think as years pass, the old video parts look better. Looking back, it’s like an album. I view them without judgment like, “Wow, I remember that …” I can’t look back and regret what I didn’t do. There are so many chances that we pass by in life, and we can’t get upset about those.

Yes, and I think they’ve pushed me to do it, even. I’ve learned and now understand the importance of putting in the same effort that everyone else is. For example, the first day I was on the hill in Alaska with the filmer by myself, I was like, “Okay, now it’s really on me to actually pick something out to hit.” That was the start. I felt like I still had so much to learn, but I knew I had to raise the stakes, play hardball. You can’t always ride the easy waves—I’m speaking work ethically, you know? That’s what Absinthe has taught me. And also to stand up for myself.

That was also Cervinia. The next day when we got up to the hill, the lifties were yelling at us about putting in that track and bonk-ing the lift. We also got mad crazy shit from those lifties for what we did to that pipe, too. I had to climb up there and do a little work to make it rideable and they were so pissed.

I’m not really looking, but these things just appear in front of my nose. For a long time I’ve felt that you don’t need much to go ride—the smaller the build, the better it is. But these things are just a part of progression. Eventually, you’re going to start building stuff to hit or ride.

Mostly my inspiration comes from the places I go. Whatever appears there before me, I want to ride. But looking to other guys? No. Maybe I absorb the general idea or direction I see snowboarding going—I pick out the raisins, you know? Like, “That was sick,” or, “Wow that was on my mind, too.” There’s a whole bunch going on, but I don’t ever think, not for a second, “Oh, I could’ve done that,” when I watch someone else.

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He may not have a plan for his movie, but there’s defi nitely a method to his madness. Haines, Alaska.PHOTO: Cole Barash


What do you mean by that—standing

up for yourself?

How do you keep from getting burnt out?

And how are you adjust-ing to being a dad?

With your years of filming experience, does

it come any easier?

You were TWS Rookie Of The Year in 2001, how

do you keep it fresh after nearly a decade?

Well, most of the time you’re moving with a group and that group dynamic plays a big role in filming crews. So you have to kinda balance the group decisions and your own. There’s a filmer, a photographer, all the logistics of getting there. Making the day work means you have to consider those things, too. It’s your responsibility to balance it all out.

By looking forward. Like this year, they opened a new lift at my home resort. They connected a new north-facing side of the resort, so I’m looking forward to what I’ll find there, do some slashes! You’ve gotta give yourself some freedom—freedom to do those slashes or warm-up runs, what-ever it takes to get you excited to ride. I want to add here that I didn’t like film-ing with snowmobiling crews when I was doing that—it was hard to look forward to the next day. Getting out on those bumps in the morning—I knew it definitely wasn’t something I was pursuing. I found other things. I don’t need much—just to put my snowboard on. So, what I’m trying to say is, nowadays, I can have my fun at home and then organize my trips and travel. I’ve learned to be a professional and I try to act that way with the people around me. The more I am feeding off the experience, the more on it I can be.

I’m trying to, certainly—doing my chores, my duties. I’m helping out at home as much as I can when I’m there. I find so much joy

I like what I do. I like traveling in the mountains and seeing new places. I guess I like the snow—I like its reaction! [laughs] You know, there are places that shape up differently every year, there are still new places to visit.

Yeah, I’m just like, “This is where I’m gonna get rad!” [laughs] Through the years, I’ve gotten way into it—working with filmers and photographers. It’s a fun, exciting thing to be out there as a group, learning about their eye and how they see it. As a kid I always had trouble expressing myself, especially at the beginning because of the language barrier. I kinda got thrown into the mix and I thought, “I’ll probably make a fool of myself,” but I was eager to learn. I’m still doing the same thing now —I’m still eager to learn. You know, sometimes I fall behind and try to catch up and sometimes I look at the things I’ve done and it amazes me, too. I think I have a pretty good photo album so far!

Gigi is married to his Austrian sweetie Steffi and they’re the proud parents of a young son—not yet a year old—named Jona. They live in Bregenz, Austria, not far from the area where Gigi grew up, a small mountain village called Au where the Rüf clan has dwelt for four generations. While Gigi runs around the globe chasing powder, Steffi and Jona have the whole family network back home for support.

While his son Jona is at home hitting that mother’s milk, Gigi is out spraying a different kinda white stuff. Cervinia, Italy. PHOTO: Frode Sandbech


If one day he wants to be a pro snowboarder, will

you back it?

Talk about that connection.

He can do whatever he wants … as long as he stays honest and humble, I guess. I would like to see him really snowboarding, not just huck and spin and use his body for it, but to get the connection, the meaning—to love the mountains and winter.

Well, we all enjoy it in different ways, but I’m saying there is some sort of alpinism in snowboarding—you need the mountains to ride, the slope, the speed, and the accelera-tion. There are also dangers out there that come with it. Maybe one of the reasons I’ve pushed it this far in snowboarding is the excitement I feel with that environment, the fun in the mountains, the thrills. I find my eagerness and pleasure in being pre-pared for whatever challenge I find in the mountains—I’m not saying that I’m looking for a challenge, I just want to be ready for whatever happens. I don’t want to be lim-ited to something I’m trying to find—I’m not trying to find anything. It’s more adapting. In snowboarding you have to adapt to a lot, like bad weather, and it’s not that I just want to bring the right goggle lens, but it’s to be able to adapt to any uncertainty—you’ve gotta be spontaneous. There’s a hell of a range of feelings going on out there. First, you have excitement, then you have the challenge, then maybe you even have an accident. It’s definitely a rollercoaster ride … I’m getting off track now … What drives me, and what always has, is that I am still looking for my place—trying to cre-ate my place around the aspirations that I have in the mountains, getting out into the fresh air. Now, there are concerns at home, you know, and that adds a challenge—you have to scramble. But I also know that if you finish something good, you can start something new.

Volcom is known for producing unique shred flicks such as The Garden, Subjekt: Haakonsen, and Luminous Llama—which all became cult clas-sics. Now, they’re betting on Gigi’s productive track record and creativ-ity for their newest snow film, which at this point is still unnamed.

Give some background on your new movie

project.

Well, it will be produced by Volcom, which supports me very much in letting me do what I want—they’ve given me all the tools I need to do it. The man standing tall behind it is Billy Anderson, and Jake Price is going to be the filmer. Basically, I have no real plans, so I always kinda cringe when they say it’s a movie about me. But really, it’s gonna be a Volcom movie with the whole team involved. They said I could bring everybody into play that I’m fond of. We are even gonna bring in regular people—maybe even some hitchhikers. There’s not much planning going into it, so we’ll see what we discover.

just in the fact that Jona is a healthy, young boy—I couldn’t be happier. Right now he is too young, he just wants to nibble on the booby, but in the future, he’ll realize that I’m pursuing snowboarding. And already, he has been exposed to a life that is very different than when I was growing up—sometimes it’s a pretty crazy one and I feel like I have to show some morals and teach him that everything in life doesn’t come easily. For myself, I can’t really trace back if it did come easily, probably in a couple years when my body aches and I’m hurting, I’ll know that it didn’t. But hopefully, I can look back at lessons learned and pass them on to Jona. I still consider myself young and I’ll get to do a lot of rad stuff with him—I should be able to keep up with him for a couple more years [laughs].

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Photographer Frode Sandbech gives some context: “Gigi knew about these old avalanche

stoppers, so we played around for a while, then he fi gured out he could use one all-natural as

a jump. After a couple backside 180s, he went on and charged this perfect misty fl ip—and

stomped it after just three tries.” Cervinia, Italy.


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Will you still be filming with Absinthe Films?

Are you ready to be the leading man and manage

a film crew?

So you’ve finally found the freedom you’ve been

looking for?

And here you are headlining your own movie, the new Volcom board team, and

new sponsors …

Oh, yeah, that was one of the first things we had to answer. Billy and I met with Justin [Hostynek]—I was really sentimental about Alaska, because Justin brought me there first with Absinthe. I didn’t want to go up there with a different crew and raid their surf and turf, so Billy came up with the concept to film a behind-the-scenes of me in Alaska with the Absinthe crew, showing what I do with them up there, then we’ll use that docu-mentary part for the Volcom movie.

I feel excitement in doing this, yeah. I wasn’t really given the gift of leadership, so it’s definitely another challenge for me, learn-ing-wise. But something that took a bit of the weight off my shoulders was Billy telling me that if we don’t have enough footage, we’ll just keep going until it’s done. It gives me some perspective—I can just ride and roll with it. There are certain pressures out there, but I’ve been here before and I can cope. I shouldn’t think too much about useless things—just think about having fun and how to make it back home.

Yeah, it’s crazy like that. I’ve made it this far, but the work isn’t over. I’m given opportuni-ties and sometimes I feel overwhelmed, but I’m still trying to progress. I never really put a lot of thought into my career, or making a career—just said a little funny talk, some jokes, to the people around me. But I have definitely been inspired by the scene and the freedom it transmitted to me—to go around in the mountains, to learn snow-boarding and get better … Maybe it’s short-sightedness on my part, but I always just enjoyed the riding. I can’t credit myself for anything—most of the stuff I’ve done, I never thought about until it was right there in front of my nose.

Yeah, I don’t have to prove anything any-more, really. I’d still like to form some sort of progression in snowboarding, but then again, it’s just snowboarding and I haven’t put too much thought into it before, so I probably shouldn’t start now.

How ’bout a little inbounds hell-raising? Gigi’s down. Lofty gap-out to chairlift

bonk. This one almost got him in a scrap with some Italian lift-rats. Cervinia, Italy.

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It’s a bird’s eye view and it’s bountiful. Trevor Jacob gets his in the Jackson backcountry.


LegendaryLearning

Istep into the hotel room as oily, congealed leftovers fly through the room and smear across Broc’s face before spattering a painting on the wall. Yelling and wrestling erupts, then ceases with laughter. The room is a

raucous scene, teeming with teen spirit. Broc Waring, Bryn Valaika, Ross Baker, and Trevor Jacob are mashed together, getting under each other’s skin. They’re anxious. It’s mid-March, the height of the season in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Legendary riders Bryan Iguchi and Barrett Christy are ready to open the door and expose these riders’ eyes to a foreign strain of snowboarding —the backcountry.Usually this young crew is working their way through the rigidities of resort riding and contests—the structured

side of snowboarding that they know very well. It’s drilled into them with every trip. Liftlines, the park, the corduroy, the judges’ eyes. Here, however, they are free and embarking on a discovery of new subject matter. One of exploratory learning, open expanses of snow, the elective stuff with no boundaries—jump building, chutes, sinking legs into pow, and seeking out the riding preserves of the Teton wilderness. Taught by legendary mad professor and Jackson ambassador Bryan Iguchi. So we sit cooped up, waiting, and peering out the hotel window to a heavy, looming storm of snow drooping over the Tetons and swallowing Jackson Hole.

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By morning we’re sitting up at Corbet’s Cabin at the top of Jackson Hole—our meeting place above the legendary couloir of the same name. The storm is still in effect. It’s windy and gray. Inside the cabin it’s warm and the rookie crew is stuffing their faces with sugary waffles as they distractedly listen to the lecture from mountain patrol. A refresher on beacon use and snow stability are the lessons—the essential prerequisites and most structured part of stepping beyond resort boundaries and into the sidecountry first, and backcountry later. Then we’re up and out, traversing and hiking beyond the resort’s perimeter as Bryan leads the group of nine out to Cody Bowl. It’s where he first started a love affair with riding the uncharted stuff.

The snow has stacked up well and we keep picking our way through Jackson’s adjacent ter-rain. Funneling through chutes, plunging off of cliffs. “John Jackson Cab-fived this cliff,” Guch tells us. He’s also our historian. Then we make it to the bottom and Trevor spies a boulder-to-boulder hip.

Guch had never considered it, but seems open and interested. This is where I began to see the reciprocal learning start—these kids taking Guch’s advice, but at the same time he’s studying this new breed—how they ride and view the mountain.

Later, Trevor tries to build an over-vert rock-to-rock transfer, like a full pipe with the top cut out. It crumbled, but reveals a connection, a commonality between the eyes of the young and the eyes of a veteran. They have the park-trained eye, one of building and transforming the surroundings to suit their aims. The flipside is where the trained eyes of someone as experienced as Guch will scour the architecture of nature, figuring out how to use what the mountain offers—following its contours, its basins, its broken and voluted form. It comes in time and experience, as does the way in which one rides it. We leave the sidecountry after two days, but Bryan’s “method if it pops, Indy if it drops” axiom rings in our ears, making us think about how we react to terrain.

By day three we’ve branched out, left Jackson and are rooping a caravan of sleds around Togwotee Pass. It’s easy access, already torn up by slednecks. Everyone handles their sled with no major problems—amazing considering it’s the first time most of the young bucks have stepped on a snowmobile. We head straight to some jumps spots. Now this is familiar for the crew. Point it, snap, spin, and grab. There’s little consequence on the other side, save for the difficulty of land-ing in powder.

We spend the next three days winding through the Absaroka Mountains by sled. Bryan ushers us from spot to spot, we just follow his sled track knowing we’re in good hands. At every stop he points out terrain features, naming video spots, and helping with stuck sleds. We hit cliffs, cornice drops, and more kickers. One afternoon we rip by the knoll where Travis Rice threw some of his first double corks. The new recruits stare with awe and buzz. The history lesson is building. “That was

Side Steps In Passing

he doesn’t want this part of the sport to die out.

This beats a high school chemistry lecture any day. When in doubt, probe.

Ahh, the never-ending love/hate relationship between man and machine, it’s like wrestling a stiff, dead cow.


in Subjekt: Haakonsen,” Guch points out. The old movie references don’t always elicit an immediate response. The films and people he mentions were prominent when this crew was in dia-pers. And that’s about when the connections began sinking in. The tram ride up with Kevin Jones, the nurturing advice from Barrett Christy, the wise direction from Bryan. There is something more …

The trip isn’t just about showing these contest riders around the backcountry and getting photos. There’s a circle of elders surrounding them, guiding them toward this path—a passing of the torch—a preservation of the more natural side of snow-boarding. Top pros like Travis Rice credit Guch for assuming this mystic role. “Looking back, if I had to call out one of the few pivotal moments in my life, meeting Bryan Iguchi was one of them. You know, a legend of legends who up and moved from California to here [Jackson], and gave up everything. I mean, all his sponsors dropped him because he moved into the woods. He wasn’t in the limelight anymore, but what it really was, was that he found what he was looking for here. I feel like I was able to apprentice under a master,” as Travis boldly stated in That’s It, That’s All. This group of riders may not realize it now, they’ve only just sampled its fruits, but someday being out of the parks and out here in the powder may eventually

be their calling. After all, Guch himself was a young aspiring pro

at this age, with a thirst for any and every type of snowboarding.

On the first day of sledding Bryan mentions that he normally wouldn’t do this—blow out a spot with a big crew of outsiders. Trevor Jacob

rode with him to the pass that morning and later, on our drive back, quietly tells us, “Bryan was telling me how this trip is more of a choice, a passion for him—because he doesn’t want this part of the sport to die out. You have to teach the younger generations to learn the backcountry and experience it all, is what he told me.”

From HereThe light fades all too soon and we sit at the last

dinner together. Youngest and eldest with grins all around. Everyone got a taste of new terrain that week. For Broc, Bryn, Ross, and Trevor, it’s a sample of the powdery path they may soon follow. Or a path you may want to follow.

When your eyes feast on the massive bowls and the jagged peaks of Alaska it lures you … but

you don’t instantly dive in. The same way you don’t just drop into the X Games Superpipe. You start small. You build your way up. It’s the same for backcountry, but there’re no judges, no qualifiers, no finals. You learn

safety, then go. Start with tree runs, access gates, then, maybe one day, sleds or a heli. Each trip is another step and it grows from your surroundings and experiences. Dig in, learn about this beast everyone

calls the backcountry. Discover that lingering feeling it embeds in your soul. It’s flirting with

raw snowboarding … backhill and backcountry—snowboarding’s true origins.

And as the night envelops the Tetons, I ask Broc one more time what he would take away from this trip. He confidently says, “Having fun riding is the best stuff in life … but riding here and riding pow is what snowboarding is all about. It’s the roots of snowboarding. There weren’t parks back in the day—this is natural, actual shredding. The way it should be.” With generous, passionate riders like Guch still steering snowboarding’s transcen-dence and youthful, acute riders studying him, it seems safe to say that the future generations will be just fine.

Sidecountrystart hereMt. Baker, Washington

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Alpine Meadows, California

Sugar Bowl, California

Brighton, Utah

Solitude, Utah

The Canyons, Utah

Big Sky, Montana

Bridger Bowl, Montana

Silverton, Colorado

Revelstoke, British Columbia

Fernie, British Columbia

Big White, British Columbia

Kicking Horse, Alberta

Sidecountry or “slackcountry” is terrain adjacent to and accessed through a resort. It’s a perfect place to start backcountry style riding, if they allow it. More and more resorts are providing gates into this type of terrain

and most require an avalanche beacon, probe, and shovel. Here are some prime resorts that allow such riding:

‘Guch droppin’ knowledge.Style travels, Broc takes it from park to the backcountry.

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This is what you work for. Up in the air and alone. Trevor gets his in that split second of backcountry bliss.




Robbie Walker. Salt Lake City, Utah.PHOTO: Andy Wright/Nice Try108



Curtis Ciszek. Idaho backcountry.PHOTO: Mark Welsh/Nice Try110


Austin Smith. Mt. Bachelor, Oregon.PHOTO: Mark Welsh


Bode Merrill. Salt Lake City, Utah.PHOTO: Andy Wright 112



Devun Walsh. Mt. Seymour, B.C., Canada.PHOTO: Colin Adair

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Louif Paradis. PHOTO: Alex Paradis

Austin Granger. Salt Lake City, Utah. PHOTO: Andy Wright


Zac Marben. Minneapolis, Minnesota.PHOTO: Andy Wright / Nice Try116Eero Niemela. Whistler backcountry, B.C., Canada.PHOTO: Mike Yoshida 116




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FIX A CRACKED AND DENTED EDGE And Keep Your Board From Rotting

Stump slappin’ and rail smackin’ are damn fun. But after a while your board will eventually crumble from the jib beatdown. You can crack your edge from a harsh impact with metal (i.e., rails, boxes) or dent the edge’s contact point when your board simply falls over and smashes onto the ground. Once the edge cracks and splits, your board’s days are numbered. Water seeps in, sogginess sets, then it freezes and the core crumbles. You can prolong your board’s life by sealing up that cracked or dented edge, though, and here’s how.—B.G.

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POUND ITIf your edge is bent out of shape, it’s best to pound it back in line before gluing it. One way to remedy this is with a hammer and strong pointy object like an awl, cold chisel, or flathead screwdriver. Set the board flat and dig the tool into where the base meets the edge. It might take some heavy hits, just be patient. Any base damage you might inflict can be filled in with a little P-tex later.

SPREAD ITTo make sure your board is free of mois-ture, keep it at room temp for a couple days before you begin repairs. (You don’t want to trap in any moisture or the core will rot.) With the board in a vise, perpendicular to the ground, spread open the sidewall and base around the broken edge with small finishing nails. Leave the nails in and make sure there’s enough room to get some glue in there.

GLUE ITNow mix up some epoxy. Any kind will do, but the good flexible stuff from your local shop is the crème de la crème. Slowly spread a good dollop of epoxy in the wound. Then grab a hairdryer and start heating the epoxy so it liquefies and seeps into the core. Keep heating the board’s base, sidewall, topside, and the epoxy until the epoxy stops bubbling from the escaping air. Be careful not to melt your base or topsheet.

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CLAMP ITPull the finishing nails out and grab two scrapers and some C-clamps. Sandwich the sidewall with the scrap-ers and clamp it down. Don’t over tighten or you’ll dimple the board. Let the epoxy cure overnight, then sand off the excess, and if necessary, fix base scratches with P-tex.

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Danny Kass Switch Backside 360sSwitch back threes aren’t all that easy, which is exactly why you should learn them. Once you figure this trick out it’ll open the doors to a lot of other switch backside spins. Danny Kass is here to show you how it’s done on this Keystone kicker. —L.G.

01. Before you go breaking off a switch front three, make sure you’ve got switch straight airs and switch back 180s dialed. Then, go find a jump you’re really comfortable on and make sure the lip is rut-free.

02. Ride up to the jump switch, make a mellow setup turn, and transfer your weight over your toe edge—eye the lip and wait for it.

03. Once your front foot leaves the lip, initiate the spin with your head and shoulders, which is really as easy as looking back uphill. Switch backside 360s, like any 360, don’t require a lot of rotation, so don’t worry about winding up too much or chucking it off the lip. Just pop and look over your trailing shoulder.

04. Now suck your knees up, drop a hand, and grab your board—melon or mute should come easi-est. The rotation will probably be over before you

know it, and once you come around to 270, you should able to see the landing.

05. Let go of your grab and get ready to put it down. Do your best to land flat based or maybe a little on your toes, and then look straight down the landing to keep yourself from buttering around. Now, point it at the next jump and start thinking five.

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01. First off, spend part of the day practicing switch backside 180s and 360s. Lap that park until you’re confident that you can stomp both every time. Figure out which jump you’re really hyped on and get the speed dialed.

02. Your approach will be just like it was for the switch back threes. Ride in switch, make a smooth setup turn and transfer your weight onto your toe edge.

03. Switch back fives require a little more torque than the threes, so you’ll want to wind up a little as you’re riding up the lip. Counter-rotate your upper body a bit, and then as you’re leaving the lip, initiate the spin with your shoulders. Look back uphill and bring your knees up.

04. Grab as early as possible—mute or Indy should feel most natural. Hold on and keep looking over your trailing shoulder. Resist the urge to open up

when you’ve rotated that three. The last 180 will be blind, but trust that you’ll come around. You will.

05. Look down between your feet for the land-ing. It’ll come up quick, so be ready to absorb it with your legs. Stomp flat-based and ride away without reverting.

Scotty Lago Switch Backside 540sIf you’ve figured out switch back threes, turning it into a five should be mellow. Both Scotty and Danny agree that switch back fives are actually a little easier than switch back threes. Go figure. Now go learn.

“I JUST KINDA COME IN A LITTLE BIT MORE ON MY TOES AND DROP MY SHOULDER A LITTLE BIT AND MAYBE THROW IT A LITTLE CORKED.”—SCOTTY LAGO



It’s one of those worst-case scenarios—the place none of us ever want to end up—out of bounds, after dark, all alone, with no idea where you are or where to go.—L.G.

LOST The Dangers Of Ducking Ropes

THIS HAPPENED to Brendan Shoemaker last winter at Mountain High. Shoemaker was rid-ing the resort, which is located in the San Gabriel Mountains outside of Los Angeles. It’s a resort that’s better known for its park features than the surround-ing backcountry. But last February brought a lot of snow to the mountain and Brendan dipped off one of the runs to get at some fresh. He ended up tak-ing the trees down a little too far. He was separated from his friends, on his own, and it was dark before he knew it.

“This sense of exploration is ill-conceived as the areas are restricted for a reason,” says Bruce Lamarche. Lamarche is a member of the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team. He says that they get one to three calls every winter for people who’ve gone missing after leaving the Mountain High Resort boundary. He understands the draw, but hopes riders will realize the risk. “These areas do not carry sound back to any element of civilization, causing the calls for help to go unheard,” he says.

So what are you supposed to do if you find yourself in this situation? Here’s Lamarche’s advice: “S.T.O.P.” That’s Stop, Think, Observe, Plan. We teach a program to children called Hug-A-Tree. The idea is to stay put to avoid getting more lost, find shelter, make yourself visible from the air, and wait for rescue. Children are more successful than adults at this because many adults think they can solve the problem. They end up exhausting themselves, running out of daylight, and failing to plan for staying warm.”

Shoemaker did the right thing, he stayed calm, called for help, and stayed put. According to news-paper reports, he tried to build a fire, but all the trees were too wet, so he built a small snow cave and hun-kered down for the night. Search and rescue found Shoemaker the next morning. “Think about this,” adds Lamarche. “The further a lost person travels, the larger the search area becomes and the longer it takes to find them. In snowy weather, time is an enemy, as fatigue and hypothermia work against will power.”

Lamarche says there are things you can do better the odds of being found. He urges snowboarders to consider carrying some extra equipment, just in case. He suggests always carrying a loud and high-fre-quency whistle on a lanyard. “Trees and snow tend to muffle sound and a voice shouting quickly loses vol-ume,” says Lamarche. “A signal mirror is also good for attracting the attention of search helicopters. A SPOT transmitter device can also be valuable.” Although SPOT transmitters are pricey, they work where cell phones often don’t and that investment could mean all the difference. But remember, Lamarche asserts, “It’s imperative that these tools, while advised, do not become an excuse to go out of bounds. One can still die in the wilderness with all the tools money can buy. Basic preparedness is wise anytime you venture into the mountains, but it won’t cure bad decisions.”

ONE CAN STILL DIE IN THE WILDERNESS

WITH ALL THE TOOLS MONEY CAN BUY.

— Bruce Lamarche

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TERRAIN: The views from the top of the 10,090-foot peak include June Lake and several smaller alpine lakes in the valley below. The resort boasts more than 35 runs including rolling groomers, tree runs, steep faces, and a park with some 50 chiseled features.

POWDER PLAN: When the storm is underway in Mammoth Lakes, head on up to June Mountain for wide-open trees and no crowds. You’ll be able to take lap after lap with fresh turns off the Face and the Wall. After a couple hours riding between those spots, head up to the top of the mountain on Chair 7 and duck into the trees off Matterhorn or shred the Banker Chutes. These moderate pitch runs will keep your legs burning all day.

PARK PLAN: The park at June is always groomed to perfection. From the top of Chair 7 down to Stew Pot Slim’s Chalet, riders can hit up to ten jumps in every size (up to supersized) and countless jibs. The park crew also adds in repurposed junk masterpieces to session, like a big metal wrecking ball and chain and a satellite dish, just to name a few. Expect to see a new big hip in this playground of jibs, as well.

MUST DO: Take the four-mile top-to-bottom run from Chair 6 to Chair 1. You can slash through the trees, carve the groomers, and then get creative on the Canyon Trail cat track on the way to the bottom. If you’re the adventurous type, take the Hooligans run to town and grab a bite to eat or a drink at the local’s favorite, Tiger Bar.

NEW: This season June Mountain will unveil a new hip cutting machine, which was custom-designed by its own park crew. June has also added new snowmak-ing fan guns dedicated to the Superpipe off Chair 2.

3 BEST THINGS: The park, no crowds, jib-friendly secret tree runs.

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—Kimmy FasaniElevation: 10,090 feetTerrain: 500 acres Lifts: 7

Snowfall: 300 inches Ticket: $64Web site: junemountain.com

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TIP: After a long day head to Double Eagle Lodge for dinner and a massage or, for the budget rider, score a room at The Villager and we’ll see you at Tiger Bar.


Jackson Hole’sCasper Bowl

“The bowl is probably the easiest place to access this kind of terrain on the mountain—there’re kickers to pillow to trees to lines and everything you’d want to ride, Jackson Hole style.”—Mark Carter, your guide through Casper Bowl

OVERVIEW:Casper Bowl is a 1,200-vertical-foot

cirque accessible by a short fifteen-minute hike from the gondola. It’s an avalanche-controlled backcountry area that you enter through backcountry access gates. There are plenty of ways to get cliffed-out up here, so make sure to scope out your lines from below or go with someone who knows. This is the zone where Travis Rice’s Quiksilver Natural Selection contest was held.

INSIDER INFO If you plan on heading out of bounds

at Jackson Hole, be sure to have a part-ner, pack, avalanche beacon, shovel, and probe ... and know how to use them. JHMR also offers guided back-country trips.

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INTRO LINE:The easiest way down is through this north-facing gully. Traverse in through the lower gate and basically head straight down the

open pow field. You can go into Casper Woods on the rider’s right to hit the tight trees and little pillows—that’s my favorite place to ride and most people stay away from tight trees.

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ADVANCED LINE:This is the “Box Canyon” line. Basically, you stay to the rider’s left of the two little trees along the ridge—there’re two exposures, with one going fall line into the box. You

can punt off that shark fin and drop into the fields or, if you’re really manly, you can hit it pretty fast off the exposure and into the canyon. Taking the fin down is a little sharky, but when there’s enough snow you can hit it pretty fast. The rock further down below the trees makes a good jump across the slope.

THE KINGER LINE:Rob Kingwill took this line dur-ing the Natural Selection. The takeoff is from the most promi-

nent peak. Start at the far left side of the peak and head for the opening in the trees on down the fin and then send it off the end—you can ride right off the end for a ten-foot drop or punt it from further up—the landing here too can be a little flat, so don’t take it with too much speed.

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134ANGRY INTERNS

1.) Have you put out a video part in the last two years that has any new tricks in it? Not just to you, but new to the snowboarding world in general?A.) NoB.) Yes

2.) Does your teenage child currently hit bigger jumps than you?A.) NoB.) Yes

3.) If over the age of 35, do you wear the same clothes as the teenagers who currently make up your “peer group?”A.) YesB.) No

4.) Are you still doing the pipe run that got you third at the ’93 Open?A.) YesB.) No

5.) Have you ever thought about taking your skills to the backcountry?A.) NoB.) Yes

If you answered A to more than two of these questions, it’s time to stop embarrassing yourself. Make the natural progression to washed-up pro by getting a real estate job. Or, if you’re really desper-ate, you could always try your hand at snowboard “journalism”—if these hacks can do it, anyone can.

As we’re sure you’ve figured out by now, we Angry Interns come and go, no, it’s not the same few losers still hanging on since the 1990s— although some-times it feels like we have been here since the 1890s. There’s no way anyone can change these idiot editors’ diapers (both figuratively and literally) for more than a year or two. Unless maybe you were a former POW, Green Beret, or someone who has been trained to live a subhuman, tortured existence for extended periods of time. Even if we were happy living in conditions that could make a rat puke, the powers above wouldn’t let us stay if we wanted to. They like to keep the talent fresh. After a few volumes, even the most energetic,

bright-eyed, bushy-tailed shred nerd is as jagged as the lid of a hobo’s soup can. Which got us to thinking …

In this day and age when there are only so many paychecks to go around in snowboarding, why are there still pros from twenty years ago collecting checks for doing nothing? We think it’s time to do a little spring cleaning. Here is a little checklist for the aging pro to see if you are actually doing anything productive or are just swinging from the teat of the heifer that is snowboarding in hopes of milking it for all it’s worth.



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While most pros are zeroed in on stomping tricks and stacking footy, Jon Kooley sets his own pri-orities. Sure, he’s got the moves, but he knows he can’t be caught on the streets with wrinkled flannels and crumpled-up V-necks. A tight kit is critical. Taking one from the Justin Hebbel playbook, Kooley runs an iron off the genny to smooth everything out. PHOTO: Andy Wright

This is what happens when a snowboarder tries to use a handrail for its intended purpose. Damn, that looks sketchy. Bjorn Leines hangs out at Brighton, Utah.PHOTOS: Andy Writght

Marco don’t surf. But imagine what would happen if MFM paddled out in SoCal? Tough-guy locals would turn into snivelling turds, heroes would sink, and the shredders might actually catch a few waves. But lucky for the surf turkeys, Marco only surfs the white wave. PHOTO: Andy Wright

Looks like the shortbus just pulled up. And out comes three odd fellows: Seth Huot with his good-luck blanky, Chris Grenier with the only rack he touched last year, and a pretty typical shot of Kyle Clancy flipping himself the bird. Yes, more disturbing proof that filming a video part causes severe mental strain. PHOTO: Andrew Marriner

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See those sweet Olympic rings up there? Yup—we’ve been here before. The year was 1998, and it too was a double-trouble year—like this one. Both El Niño weather and the winter Olympics were lining up to cause chaos in the snowboard world. The debut venue for Olympic snowboarding: Nagano, Japan—a place not known for the quality of its halfpipes. Sound familiar? Switzerland’s Gian Simmen took away halfpipe gold for the men, while Germany’s Nicola Thost snagged it for the ladies. Canadian Ross Rebagliati’s GS gold was overshadowed by a scandal involving alleged cannabis consumption. The glory for

good ol’ America came in a pair of bronze medals earned by Ross Powers and Shannon Dunn-Downing in halfpipe. This issue was full of opinions—for, against, and indifferent to the big, scary coolness-killer. In the feature “Contenders, Anti-Contenders, And The Rest Of Us,” scores of pro riders sounded off, but the opinion of Temple Cummins kinda nailed it. He said “The Olympics aren’t really going to affect me or how much it snows, so I really don’t care. I do hope that the best snowboarder wins.” And with that, let the games begin, again.

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FIVE RING CIRCUS CRISPY WISDOMOccasionally through the 90s, our in-house scientist and Lord Of Everything, Dr. Crispy stepped into the editorial spotlight. Of his fictitious Nagano victory, he laid down some sage advice to the kids: “Don’t believe the hype, wrap that rascal, and lean back in the powder,” cool stuff like that.

MONKEYFLIPPING ON FILMIf the 90s was the Golden Age of shred photography, Jeff Curtes was the era’s archbishop. In a markedly handmade photo fea-ture, using typewriter text and collage, Jeff Curtes gave read-ers a taste of his world: travel madness, friends, hammers, and heroes. And imagine, every image was the result of a chemical, rather than electronic process. Yes, film. History is weird, eh?

After twentysomething years at the forefront of shred media, the TransWorldarchives are deep. Get a blast from the past each month, right here in Timeless.

FEBRUARY 1998138TIMELESS



1. AEROSMITH, “Dream On”

2. BAD RELIGION, “No Control”

3.BUTTHOLE SURFERS, “Coming Down The Mountain”

4. BEASTIE BOYS, “Skills To Pay The Bills”

5. METALLICA, “Whiplash”

6.QUEEN, “Another One Bites The Dust”

7. OBITUARY, “I’m In Pain”

8. PANTERA, “Rise”

9. ARETHA FRANKLIN, “I Will Survive”

10. GEORGE THOROGOOD, “You Got To Lose”

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Kyle Clancy’s“songs to fit your personal journey

through snowboarding” playlist

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LUCERO1372 Overton ParkUniversal Republic Records

I used to detest this record, but I got over it. Here’s what happened: I wanted every Lucero song to sound the same, like “My Best Girl” off their self-titled album—rough and mysterious, sweet and a little sad, Willie Nelson with punk sensibilities. But 1372 Overton Park doesn’t sound like that. It’s all boisterous energy and blasting saxophone tracks. Ugh. However, the more I lis-tened to it, the more it got me. The energy is infectious and the horns are endearing, like a sweet jumble of Bruce Springsteen and Memphis soul. And there’re still a few down-and-out ballads in there with that old-school crestfallen charm—“Can’t Feel A Thing,” “Mom,” “Darken My Door.” Anyhow, “My Best Girl” is still my favorite, but what would it say about Lucero if they made the same damn song, album after album?

NOUVELLE VAGUE3Peacefrog Records

Have you ever loved a song so much that you killed it? You played it to death for days, months, or years, and suddenly one day, you can’t bear to hear it again—not one more time. So … what now? Is it dead for all time? No! You just need French outfit Nouvelle Vague to transform it for you. This band has made itself famous by turning punk and new-wave hits from the 70s and 80s into loungy master-pieces. As NV’s third release, this is a little different from album’s past because it employs some famous help, including Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) and Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunnymen). But all in all, these songs get the typical Nouvelle Vague treatment. From The Violent Femmes’ “Blister In The Sun” and The Talking Heads’ “Road To Nowhere” to The Sex Pistols’ “God Save The Queen,” old-time faves are transformed into an amalgamation of bossa nova and come hither—as lush as red velvet and the taste of ripe plums.

THEM CROOKED VULTURESDGC/Interscope Records

I thought the term “supergroup” only applied to bands from the 70s where the singer sang into a headgear microphone and wore white linen pants. Shit like Genesis or Traffic—the smelliest kind of radio-friendly, supposedly genius (according to some dillwad rock radio DJ)—shit. Then, Them Crooked Vultures swoop in and fix it. TCV is a f—king supergroup all right. Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal, Kyuss) fronts the group and rips guitar. Drums are destroyed by Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Scream), and on bass, the legendary John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. Yes, you read that right, Led Zep. The new band stands completely independent of any of the dudes’ previous projects. It rocks and that’s all you need to know. And if TCV ends up on the radio, its not because they don headgear or display a risqué sidepipe, it’s because they are super. Period.—J.M.

Sidepipes, Sex Pistols, And Saxophones. By: Jennifer Sherowski

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SHAUN WHITELAST vacation: I went to Hawaii for my birthday. A bunch of friends and some surf—it was nice.

LAST joke: New Moon, I thought there was going to be more nudity.

LAST song you played: “Where The Wild Roses Grow” by Nick Cave.

LAST new trick: Double McTwist—fi nally nailed it down in New Zealand. I chipped my ankle trying to learn it in Silverton, it felt good to get redemption.

LAST airport: Carlsbad from LAX, nothing too exciting to report there.

LAST hot date: If you tell someone to come to your house with a text, is that considered a date?

LAST surf trip: It’s kind of a mission to go surf locally with parking, so can I say Carlsbad?

LAST thing you quit: Sarcastic answers to amazing questions.

LAST big slam: Riding in Silverton trying to learn double alley-oop rodeos. It’s a tough trick because trying not to pop off the wall while trying to throw a double is a tough balance. I kept landing fl at and fi nally ripped my butt cheeks apart. I wasn’t walking right for a week.

LAST Web site: girlsshootinggunsinbikinis.com.

LAST fast food: Juanita’s Carnitas in Leucadia.

LAST victory celebration: I had a really good night the day I learned my fi rst double.

LAST thing you learned: Olympic hype is very time consuming.

LAST thing that annoyed you: My brother Jesse.

LAST bright idea: Carbonated cheese soda, it’s a miracle of science and fl avor in one.

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LAST embarrassment: I have red chest hair, I live a life of pain.

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