A while back I managed to grab the opportunity to try Australian snowboarding for size. One of the unique things I experienced out there was snowboarding through their jazzy little snow gum tress. Here's a selection of Michael Scott Lees' excellent panoramic photography from around those mountains. How would you like a run through this lot?...

It's sunny, not the time to write about snowboarding, here's a look at vintage powered surfboards...

The top 10 things you should know about this week...

Here's a trend that needs to roll over and die. Most of these designs spawn from the site called The Keep Calm-o-matic that allows anyone to generate their own version of the Keep Calm meme. The site uses the word 'pithy' on the homepage and they're proudly responsible for creating over 6 million parodies, the shameless bastards. Today we take a look at some of this meme's lowlights...

Here's a look at the method of snow clearance that comes directly out of the sledgehammer school of walnut freeing...

Tired of your old snowblades or Duel snowboards? Looking for a new mediocre mountain riding experience? Why not try all new FATblades!...

Thinking about doing a regular series of this sort of thing...

1. Gif via Reddit

2. scooteRack via Wackyboards

3. Rock Skiing with Sylvain Saudan via Unofficial Networks

4. Indoor Dirt Biking

5. How Squaw Valley Won the 1960 Winter Olympic Bid by Unofficial Networks
At some point when I wasn't paying attention these guys decided to get into the field of high-class historical skiing journalism. Very interesting read: Get some.

6. Remote Controlled Pistie Beastie

7. Black Belt Test SFII Edition via AWSM

8. A History of Skateboard Pants by Jenkem
Click on the Jenkem link above to get the full size version.

9. Mountain Bike vs Snowboard via Unofficial Networks

10. GolfBoard via Wackyboards

Wintery women themed collages from Belgian artist Sammy Slabbinck...

A while ago we wrote an article called Multimedia Snowboard Tragedies, which included a look at the brilliant interactive and Pultizer prize winning New York Times article called Snow Fall. Us vs Th3m have produced a similar thing called Ice Fail...

Someone going under the pseudonym CircleSquareDiamond has been beavering away producing a set of minimalist ski resort maps and selling them through Society6. It's a simple idea (a bit of tracing), but it's done well and the end results are classy. So far they've produced 137 of the buggers. Here's a few examples and we've made a Friday game out of it too...

In an extremely unfortunate coincidence for the Loveland Ski Resort marketing department, it turns out there's another Loveland on the block. It's a self-styled "sexual themepark" in South Korea that offers an interesting line in sculptural art. It causes more than a bit of confusion when you try to run an image search for Loveland...

One huge problem with Russia's new proudly anti-gay stance that seems to have passed people by is, how the hell are they going to manage the opening and closing ceremonies? The organising committee must be shitting bricks as they furiously try to rework all their plans to keep in line with the new rules, with just a few months left to go. After all the Olympic ceremonies are nothing if not huge doses of camp pageantry. To illustrate my point....

As part of my ongoing quest to find the perfect car for snowboarding, I've found a few more ideas...

"With an enormous Brand Arena, you can top up your wardrobe from the cutting edge design of Oakley, established favourites such as Salomon and hot newcomers like Zimtstern and E+O. Catch the visually explosive fashion show to see the crème de la crème of winter styles."

From this week's Shortlist magazine

I've been busy researching hipsters for an article that should go up on the main site this week. In the meantime here's a photo from back in 1971 via a Tumblr site called Dads Are The Original Hipsters. 

In a few years this will be all over your snowboard gear. Check out the video...

This is how every self-respecting snowboarder should role....

This press release was spunked all over the internet in June. Here are my highlights...