There is a ways to go before snowboard mountaineers have the same quality and volume of options currently available to their two plank peers. However, a handful of high profile riders and companies like Jones Snowboards, Spark R & D, Karakoram and Deeluxe are leading the charge in a positive directions. With snow arriving in [...]
If you are a snowboarder trying to dial down your gottamm touring setup (no frustration here after inexplicably blowing bushings on my sweet new Spark splitboard bindings on tour #3!), this video by Christian Beckwith on his newly launched OuterLocal.com is a helpful and informative piece detailing how a JH snowboard mountaineer has been been [...]
Thanks to a cold and wet spring local riders Jason and Michelle Smith were able to snowboard the east face of Buck Mountain in Grand Teton National park on June 18, 2010. Conditions were firm and variable which made the riding pretty slow going knowing that we were over huge exposure during the ascent/descent. All [...]
Check out this link from Transworld Snowboard Magazine about Jarrett Luttrell and his success at being the first person to snowboard all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks. There has been a lot of hype in the Jackson area about ski vs. snowboard mountaineering on websites like TetonAT and StephenKoch.com, (Check out those highlighted links [...]
