Before multimillion-dollar corporations and factories spanning acres, there were unyielding makers and dim workshops. Production and design were guided by how a ski or snowboard felt cutting through ...

Jesse Loomis grew up in southern Vermont snowboarding with Grain Surfboards cofounder Mike Lavecchia. After a few photography gigs and a job working in customer service at Burton Snowboards, Loomis ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. Most snowboarders would agree that the lure of the ...

Ski season is coming fast - especially if you want to have the best skis or snowboards on earth, which require lead time and are something you should be thing about right now. If you ski with any ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bacon was the first thing that came to mind when longtime rider Roby Peabody started thinking about building a custom snowboard. “How cool would that be, to ...

ESSEX JUNCTION - When Queen City Steel delivered four, nine-foot-long, 400-pound blue steel I-beams to his front lawn in the spring of 2016, Max Holzman was ready for them. The driver delivering the ...

A more hands-on way to ski and snowboard has opened at Hoodoo Ski Area. Santiam SnoLab, open since November, allows skiers and riders to design and build their own skis or snowboards from scratch. The ...

Four years ago, Eric Newman broke his back, neck and sternum in a skiing accident. The ski racer could have looked at the injuries as devastating, but instead he calls the accident “a fortunate turn ...

Powder Day Pets is a new local company creating handmade dog (and cat) collars integrating ski and snowboard technology — combining two things many in the mountains are passionate about. “It’s kind of ...