Local shredder and AST rider Shannan Yates takes 1st place at Chamonix with fellow AST riders Laura Dewey and Kaitlin Elliot finishing in 6th and 7th, respectively. This was the first stop on this year’s Swatch/North Face Freeride World Tour. All the American female snowboard competitors hail from our own Little Cottonwood Canyon. That includes […]
Here it is! The board has become a reality and here’s the production edit to prove it. Prototype - a short edit documenting our first board. Thanks for watching. Here’s some design specs developed along the way:
There’s nothing like flying on a board you designed. I can’t say enough good things about the builders and everyone who had a part in the construction of this one-off custom snowboard. After some experimentation and mad-science we have a first-edition, custom Alta Snowboard Team snowboard. I personally designed this board based on my riding […]
Thursday, March 21. Travel Day: “Never leave good surf,” a wise man once told me. As Justin and I loaded the 84′ AMC Wagon at 6 AM to leave our beloved Little Cottonwood Canyon, the snow had just started to come down hard. We hadn’t seen snow fall in a week or more. Never […]
I’ve been working with my friend Jay at Dirty Bird Boards to build my first snowboard. Jay has been manufacturing custom skis and surfboards for the past couple years and recently made the jump to snowboards. The shop may be close to home but that doesn’t mean this is backyard low-tech. Jay works with space-age […]
