With our credit crunching, our quality of life being reduced to within an inch of its life and Woolworth’s no longer offering pick and mix, many of us are thinking “What the hell are we still doing in England?” Record numbers of people are using the unstable economic climate as a get out clause.
Powderroom.net ambushed Tanya Otero, Sales Director of O-Matic Snowboards, in Milwaukee, WI to hear what she had to say about working for a smaller, new company and what she’s learned in her years of experience in the industry.
Head to Fernie, Canada and you’ll find a host of companies offering you the chance to get out of the resort and into the backcountry. Where heliboarding and multi-day catboarding trips might be out of your budget, a one day catboarding trip gives you the chance to get into the wild for a much more reasonable amount - about $350 CDN per person.
Tammy Esten is English but calls the French Alps home. She set and runs Mint Snowboard School – a Morzine-based academy providing private and group lessons in French or English. This winter they’re also working on the Just4Girls snowboard camps and expanding the project to launch Just4Guys camps and mixed freestyle and freeride camps.
New York-based graffiti artist and designer Claw Money gave this season's K2 Mix snowboard the golden touch with her jewel and pearl graphics. We caught up with her to find out more about the collaboration.
