Matt Stouder : Cascade Range, Oregon Neil Provo : Wasatch Range, Utah Chad Klein : Bridger Range, Montana Yossi Jagger : Craigieburn Range, South Island, New Zealand Wade Galloway : Waterton, Alberta Dan Mingori : Eastern Sierra, California Adam Reinier : Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado Joey Vosburgh : Selkirk Range, British Columbia Sky Rosveld : … Read more
For the next interview we stop by the Oregon Cascades and talk with Matt Stouder. A Willamette Pass ski patroller by day and avid backcountry snowboarder by night. In this piece Matt talks about his love for a area covered with high alpine peaks and ancient Cascadian volcanoes.
His stomping grounds are a place near and dear to my heart and I can honestly say that he is living in a relatively undiscovered gem.
There is no question that Neil Provo has made a name for himself within the Wasatch Range of Utah. Mixing freeride terrain with a freestyle element, his style and grace has received the attention of companies and media alike. In this installment Neil talks about what got him into splitboarding and what gets him stoked when riding in the backcountry.
Our latest interviewee is based in out of the Big Sky country and has shreded lines all over the PNW and as of recently Alaska. In this interview I talk with Chad about what got him into splitboarding and why he stuck with snowboarding when the majority of his touring partners are skiers.
Our next interviewee is a Australian who lives in New Zealand year round to travel the Southern Islands legendary Southern Alps. Known for its massive stronghold of glaciers and even harsher weather this region has a endless supply of mountains. In this interview Yossi talks about making the transformation from snowshoeing to splitboarding to feed his backcountry obsession.
On our next stop we head to some of the most rugged mountains within all of Canada. Someone who has his touring system dialed from what he eats to how much distance he skins in a day. His website treepilot.ca has become a resource for like minded ski mountaineers all over the Canadian Rockies and Selkirk Mountains. In this interview we talk about Wades progression from lift riding only twice a year to over 70 days almost exclusively Splitboarding in a season.
Our next stop is to a place where the local ski hill has been known to stay open 9 months in a single season, this place happens to be in Southern California. Dan Mingori has explored these vast high alpine slopes for so many years that he decided to write a guide book filled with numerous gems in the Eastern Sierras. In this interview Dan takes about what its like solely riding a splitboard, long approaches and first turns of the season.
In this installment we head back to the Rocky Mountains while the snow is dry and the options are endless. Adam Reiner has made a name for himself riding isolated lines throughout the massive state of Colorado. In this installment Adam talks about what its like riding in an area littered with 14ers.
Welcome back to the Canadian Selkirks where the lines are steep and the snow is deep. Our next piece in the series is with a Rogers Pass local who frequents one the largest ski resort in the world, located in a once small railroad town called Revelstoke. Joey has the perfect balance between riding resort and the backcountry in what could easily be called the North American freeride mecca. In this interview I was able to talk to Joey about what it’s like touring in the Yukon and what his upcoming plans for this season are.
Our next interviewee is somewhat of a hometown hero. From the snow heavy flanks of Mt Baker to the high alpine riding of Crystal Mountain, Sky has been making a name for himself one giant leap at a time. I had the chance to talk to Sky when he made it out to Seattle for the Deeper Primer and talk to him about what lines is he Jonesing for this upcoming season.