snowboarding
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Backcountry Winter Sports Are More Fun With a Portable Ski Lift in Your Backpack
Winter sports involving snow-covered hills and gravity are really only fun if you’ve got an easy way to get back up that hill. For those times or places where a ski lift isn’t available, the PL1 is a portable tow rope system that can be quickly set up on-site and easily carried in a backpack.
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Top Tips For The First Time Snowboarder
As with all types of sports, including adventure sports, snowboarding is all about progression. Too many misinterpret this as a focus on skills and start snowboarding only to end up doing endless laps, getting hurt and/or frustrated. Ever since Jake Burton started making his eponymous snowboards back in 1977, it was in his best interest…
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What It’s Like To Get Caught In An Avalanche
Video: Snowboarder Tom Oye was snowboarding in Whistler, Canada when he got caught in a pummelling avalanche, and it’s beyond terrifying. In this video we get to see the entire harrowing slide down the mountain. One second he’s getting ready to carve the slopes, and the next he feels the ground crack underneath him and…
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The Fourth Phase Pairs Red Bull With The World’s Wildest Snowboarders
Video: Red Bull is continuing its progress towards a full film production house with the release of their latest trailer for The Fourth Phase, a daunting snowboarding docu-film following the powdered pursuits of Travis Rice. The story follows Rice around the hydrological cycle as he chases down some of the most stunning and isolated snow…