I spent ten seasons riding and teaching in Whistler, which means I've watched a lot of people arrive for their first trip and make the same handful of mistakes. None of them are serious. All of them cost you days. Here's what I'd tell a friend flying in. It's genuinely two mountains Whistler and Blackcomb are separate mountains connected by a gondola, and they ride differently. A lot of first-timers spend their whole trip on one because they don't realise how much is on the o

This comes up constantly in my comments, usually from someone who's ridden one continent their whole life and is about to book a trip to the other. And the honest answer is that they're more different than people expect. Not better or worse — different in ways that change how you plan your day, what gear you bring, and in one case, what can actually get you hurt. Here's what's worth knowing before you go either direction. 1. One resort vs. a connected network In North America

What Makes Snowboarding in New Zealand So Different

It's August. It's the middle of the northern summer. And you're about to go snowboarding. I've ridden a lot of places, and Chile does something that no other destination I've been to does. Here's why it's worth the flight.

I have snowboarded in a lot of incredible places around the world, but Kashmir was different from anything I had experienced before. The idea started back in 2019 when someone commented on one of my YouTube videos and told me I should visit Gulmarg in India. At first, I thought they were joking. When I pictured India, I definitely did not imagine deep powder, huge alpine terrain and a gondola climbing almost 4,000 meters into the Himalayas. A few years later, I finally made t

After a few great days in Washington we moved west towards north Idaho. The snow forecast showed the probablity of a storm was likely to...

What I take on a Snowboard trip