Josh Sullivan

4 days ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

Kimmy Fasani is as battle-tested as they come. She’s the first women’s snowboarder to land a double backflip. She has podiumed at the Natural Selection Tour. She’s won Rider of the Year. She not only beat cancer, but navigated losing both parents to it. She’s the mother of two young boys. And despite all of this, when I call her on a Tuesday in mid-February 2025, she’s losing a battle to some curtains she’s trying to put up in her Mammoth, California home. “Hey, can I call you back?” she asks.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Josh Sullivan

A snowboarder who fell from a chairlift at Keystone Resort has died. Donovan Romero fell from a lift back in December 2024. He died on May 2, 2025, the Colorado Sun has reported. A witness told investigators that Romero fell from the Ruby Express chairlift while he was trying to adjust his binding. A safety bar was not lowered, and the terrain below featured exposed rocks because it was so early in the season. Romero was wearing a helmet, the Sun reports.

5 days ago | yardbarker.com | Josh Sullivan

A snowboarder who fell from a chairlift at Keystone Resort has died. Donovan Romero fell from a lift back in December 2024. He died on May 2, 2025, the Colorado Sun has reported. A witness told investigators that Romero fell from the Ruby Express chairlift while he was trying to adjust his binding. A safety bar was not lowered, and the terrain below featured exposed rocks because it was so early in the season. Romero was wearing a helmet, the Sun reports.

5 days ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

A snowboarder who fell from a chairlift at Keystone Resort has died. Donovan Romero fell from a lift back in December 2024. He died on May 2, 2025, the Colorado Sun has reported. A witness told investigators that Romero fell from the Ruby Express chairlift while he was trying to adjust his binding. A safety bar was not lowered, and the terrain below featured exposed rocks because it was so early in the season. Romero was wearing a helmet, the Sun reports.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Josh Sullivan

A ski area essential to the snowboarding culture of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom has been kept out of the hands of Vail Resorts by a New England-based ownership group. Bear Den Partners closed on the sale of Burke Mountain on May 2, 2025. The group includes the Schaefer family, who runs Catamount Resort on the New York/Massachusetts border, Berkshire East in Massachusetts, and Big Red Cats in Rossland, Birtish Columbia. The mountain was sold for $11.5 million.