Rebecca Klein’s kids were ski novices when they checked in at Vermont’s Smugglers' Notch resort for a weeklong stay recently. They didn’t stay that way for long.
On the bus going to Cypress Mountain, American snowboarder Seth Wescott asked a press aide if she could do him a favor. He had a flag that he was going to need at the end of the day, when he won the gold medal in snowboard cross, and he wanted her to keep it for him until he needed it.
Germany's Amelie Kober and Andreas Prommegger of Austria collected parallel giant slalom victories Saturday in the final tune-up before the Vancouver Olympics.
Nick Baumgartner has put himself in the running to make the U.S. Olympic team with a third-place finish in a World Cup snowboardcross event.
Americans Nate Holland and Lindsey Jacobellis won World Cup snowboardcross races Sunday to improve their chances of making the U.S. Olympic team.
The money goes where the medals are — one of those Darwinian truths that often undercuts the oft-told Olympic fairy tale about the journey being as important as the result.
The clock is ticking, the venues are ready and athletes, officials and sports-minded travelers are turning their attention to the southwest corner of British Columbia. The are now one year away (February 12-28, 2010), and the buzz is building from the streets of Vancouver to the slopes of Whistler.
Americans Kelly Clark and Louie Vito won the halfpipe events in snowy conditions at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix on Saturday.
A half-dozen ski resorts in New England and the West are joining in protests against two new lines of snowboards that feature images of Playboy models and cartoons of self-mutilation.
Everyone's heard of a bicycle built for two, but how about a two-person snowboard? Butch Brady built one and recently teamed up with another snowboarder, Eric Sweet, to make some two-man turns down the Teewinot run at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
Burton co-founders defend snowboardsBurton Snowboards co-founders Jake and Donna Carpenter said Monday that reaction to a controversial line of snowboards has been overblown and defended the company's support of women.
Hidden Valley applied for a permit to build a snow tubing area and parking lot to accommodate it. Wildwood's planning and zoning commission last week told the resort it would need to pay a $252,000 fee to expand and build more parking.
This article is a guide to backcountry survival for snowboarders with advice from a Canadian search and rescue expert.
Seriously? Do they really need the furry coats to boot? Funny video, check it out.
Some cool green snowboarding gear
These cool snowboard tricks will make an impression on the slopes anywhere. We'll show you how.
Quiksilver brings its advertisement straight on a new level. Their installations interact with the environment and target group. An advertisement to the bus stops which one Skaten knows is already which fine.
The tunnel and its people-mover conveyor had been open only an hour or so Tuesday when skier Bernd Schlickeiser slid out its back side into cloud-enshrouded Mineral Basin. "That is something new in my life," he yelled back to his trailing partner, Yves Harel.
Spring riding is sweet. Nothing to worry about except trying to look sweet as you stop your landing at the park....until someone you are with breaks an arm.
A never-been snowboarder tells of his first time on the slopes.
Everyone is dogging Lindsey on her silver. This puts what happened in an alternative light.
I watched snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis fall and lose the gold medal last night.
Don't Cross Canada on a Snowboard By Mike Dojc published in the February Issue of Bell T.V. Magazine
Today Ubisoft and Shaun White, snowboarding halfpipe Gold Medalist in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and six time X Games Gold Medalist, announced an exclusive worldwide agreement to create video games inspired by White's world-famous snowboarding style.
An excluisve diary extract from veteran pro rider Tricia Byrnes as she and the other US team try to qualify for places at the Torino Games.
A review of the movie First Descent by a snowboarder. First Descent follows an Alaskan snowboarding trip of 3 generations of snowboarders.
Skiing and snowboarding video podcast (aka video blog, aka vlog) from the Pacific Northwest.