SNOWBOARDER

Founded in 1987, SNOWBOARDER is the leading magazine in the snowboarding world, offering more photos and content than any other snowboard publication. SNOWBOARDER enhances your season by covering everything from the powdery slopes to the lively after-parties. Each issue is filled with hundreds of stunning images showcasing the best riders in the sport, along with interviews featuring the most talented professionals. At SNOWBOARDER, our passion is snowboarding, just like yours.

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FIS Announces Three Contests To Be Held In Colorado In 2025-2026

1 week ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

The 2025-2026 FIS contest season will be a big one for the members of the U.S. snowboard team, as riders bid for a qualifying spot at the Olympics. All three stateside contests will be held in Colorado. The Visa Big Air contest will be held at Steamboat Resort. It will be the first event at the ski area since December 2021. Then, Copper Mountain will host the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix in late December, with snowboard and freeski halfpipe contests.
Pat Bergener Will Now Ride For Brazil

1 week ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

Vamos Brasil. Two-time Olympic halfpipe rider Pat Burgener will now ride for his mother’s home country in international competition. Burgener had previously rode for Switzerland, the country in which he was born. “Thank you Switzerland for all these amazing years!” he said in an Instagram post. “Forever grateful to represent my mother’s country now.”The FIS Council approved Burgener’s change of nation application on Friday, June 13, 2025. Swiss-Ski had already approved the change in advance.
New Bike Park "Unlike Anything Else" Coming to North Carolina Ski Resort

1 week ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

The newest ski area in North Carolina is now getting a mountain bike park. The announcement is the latest step in transforming an aging ski area into a luxury, year-round resort just 35 minutes outside of Asheville. Hatley Pointe was taken over by Deb Hatley and her family in 2023. The 2024-2025 season was its first winter in operation. It was previously known as Wolf Ridge Ski Resort. The park will be open in spring 2026, if everything goes according to plan.
New Hampshire Ski Areas Report Bump In Visitors For the 2024-2025 Season

1 week ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

The East Coast had a great winter. While rising temperatures, random spurts of rainfall, and a lack of natural snowfall has plagued the “ice coast” in recent years, a mid-winter change of heart for Mother Nature helped New Hampshire have one of the more successful snowboard and ski seasons in recent history. Alpine ski areas welcomed 2,221,206 guests during the 2024-2025 season. That’s good enough for a 3% increase from the 2023-2024 season, and a 7% increase for the last decade.
Which Snowboarders Would Make Up the Best Hockey Team? I Asked Four Pros

2 weeks ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

The link between hockey and snowboarding has always been there. They’re obviously both winter sports. They have similar fanbases. A hockey game is on at nearly every mountain-town bar I’ve ever been to from Gatlinburg, Tennessee to Whitefish, Montana. During the 2024-2025 season, though, the connection seemed ever-present.
Casey Willax To Host Camp at Big Snow American Dream

2 weeks ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

Adults can go to summer camp, too. Big Snow American Dream, New Jersey has linked up with Casey Willax to host a two-day terrain park camp at the only indoor ski slopes in North America. There will be two sessions. Each session will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and cost $350. The first will be held on June 28, 2025 and specialize in teaching beginners how to ride the terrain park.
Maddie Mastro Sidelined 6-8 Weeks

2 weeks ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

As summer settles in and the Fourth of July gets closer, thousands of Americans will likely be out of office. Count Maddie Mastro among them. The two-time Olympian and four-time X Games medalist will be taking some time off to heal from an elbow injury, however. Mastro posted a photo of her x-rays on Instagram June 10, 2025 that showed her elbow looking a bit out of place. Check them out below. “Well that wasn’t funny,” the caption reads.
The Snow League Adds Eileen Gu As A Global Brand Ambassador

2 weeks ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

Eileen Gu has joined The Snow League. The newest professional snowboarding league was started by halfpipe legend Shaun White. It made its debut March 7 and 8, 2025, and saw Japanese riders Sena Tomita and Yuto Totsuka take the first contest for the women and men, respectively. Now, it has brought the most widely known athlete in freestyle skiing in as a global ambassador. The news comes as The Snow League prepares to hold its first contest outside of the U.S. in December.
No One Has More Fun On a Snowboard Than Patrick Hoffman

2 weeks ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

It’s the second day of the 2025 Winter X Games, and 23-year-old Patrick Hofmann is about to make his debut in the fan favorite Knuckle Huck contest. “Letting the hoof breathe right here, only one foot strapped in. Coming in switch one-footed, going way too fast,” commentator Craig McMorris said on the broadcast. Hofmann pops off the knuckle, kicks out his free foot to the fullest extension, spins backside and lands a 180 while looking uphill.
Chloe Kim Talks Pokémon

2 weeks ago | snowboarder.com | Josh Sullivan

Happy June, everyone. Arapahoe Basin, Mammoth Mountain, Beartooth Basin and Timberline Lodge are officially the only resorts still open for riding. The season has been over for a while now for many, including myself. Grab your golf clubs or your mountain bike, and try to kill some time until the late fall. The internet’s been ablaze with some snowboarding adjacent content lately. My favorite? Olympian Red Gerard made an appearance on the TV show Top Chef. You can find my story on that here.