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EDITORIAL

OUR LORD, THE INTERNET If it’s not already abundantly clear in the last three Volumes of which I’ve edited this magazine, my sentiment toward the Internet, and social media in particular, oscillates irresponsibly from impotent awe to naive nonchalance to loathsome abhorrence, wasting plenty of time in the margins therein. In my more buoyant moments, I appreciate the pathways of information it’s opened. In my sombre depths, I resent it’s exacerbation of cursory attention spans. I applaud the spread of “facts”, but despise the righteousness it drags in tow. Most prominently, my contempt stems from its place as a platform for superficial gleaning and groupthink. Sure, there are plenty of useful arenas to sink your teeth on the web, but, in my experience, those are, by large, not the facets employed by the majority of my peers. For all it’s usefulness, it often looms prominently as a disproportionate wasteland and incubator of half-baked ideas and outright nonsense. Who the fuck am I to make such an assertion? Point noted. In any case, I think stepping away periodically is important.

Life on the road, and generally disconnecting from the norm and the web, have become sort of impromptu themes of this issue, explored in multiple columns and features. Following the US election circus, I’d argue that there is no better time than now to remove oneself from the influence on the screen for a bit. Indeed, there are ways to almost always stay online wherever you may be, but I’d urge everyone to set aside some time this winter to completely disengage, in whatever manner possible within the context of your life. Just step away from the bullshit and self-gratification for a minute. If you have the discipline to do this at home, power to ya. If not, hit the road. Some may not want to travel alone, and that’s understandable - bring a partner if you wish. If possible, try to avoid too large of a group and embrace a situation that allows for clear and uninfluenced reflection. Ya might laugh. Ya might cry. Ya might get bored. But your thoughts will be yours and not the regurgitation of others, and that’s a valuable thing.

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COVER STORY

Riding with Mike Ravelson is inspiring. Hell, just being around the kid is inspiring - whether he’s playing guitar, drawing, or just hanging around - the kid’s got some spark. On this cold, early season day in Colorado, Rav was inspiring this picnic table session with the entire Vans Snowboard team. We were gathered together to start our movie project (due out after this coming season of filming) and on one of our last days together Rav started ollieing onto this table off to the side of some of the rails and park features we’d been riding all week. Before long the whole squad joined in, and soon after Rav had this classic frame in the bag. Rav, in his element - simplicity, style, and a hefty front board from flat.

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The church has enough turmoil to reconcile, so we will let this beautifully stabbed stalefish in St. Christoph lie peacefully. (Let’s call it holiday spirit) Thomas Feurstein launching a classic in a land named for the patron saint of travelers.

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5 best Norwegian snowboarders past or present - Terje - Eirik Haugo - Fredrik Evensen - Ståle - Odde

- People make fun of you - Spending $$ on sunscreen - Needing a sun umbrella on the beach

- What the weather is like - That I remember food and drinks - That my boots are dry

5 things Vikings did that you wish you could do in today’s society - Wear helmets with horns on them?!?

5 things people don´t know about Norway - We have brown cheese - We have the best salmon - Everything is expensive - But lift passes are cheaper than most other places - It’s a pretty cool country

5 good things about contest riding - Get to ride with a bunch of rad dudes - Get to ride a lot of sick mountains - Sometimes you get vouchers for free meals - Travel to new places - Sometimes they put you in hotels that have hot tubs and pools

5 reasons why you didn’t want to go to the Olympics?

A lot of reasons but mainly: - That I have to do all those FIS cups that no one really wants to do - That snowboarding is falling under normal sports norms and rules - That it’s becoming a normal sport - And this is the event that presents snowboarding this way and that you kind of do it for your country and not really yourself

5 advantages of having red hair - If you are going really fast it can look like flames - People make so much fun of you that by the time you are 15 you are immune to it - You can grow redlocks - People underestimate your ability to get tan - That is all I can think off

5 good things about filming with RK1 dudes - Riding with my best friends - Building our own parks - Going to the locations we want - The hangout and the vibes - Everything about it is pretty awesome

5 tricks you want to throw down this year?

- Iceloop - Darkslide - 360 flip - Alpenflip - Switch on the chairlift

5 things you check before you leave to go snowboarding - What time it is - That my pockets are shut - That I remember my lift pass

5 people you would like to hit over the head with a rubber dildo Haha. Everyone?

5 disadvantages of having red hair - People assume you get sunburnt easily - You get sunburnt easily

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PHOTOS: GUSTAV STEGFORS

q&a with Kevin Backstrom and Tor Lundstrom

For the people living in a cave, give us a little breakdown on what BYNDxMDLS is and what it’s all about?

BYNDXMDLS stands for Beyond Medals. We started doing episodes together with Diggles and they were supposed to capture us on the way to the Olympics in a ironic way. I got kicked off the Swedish national team for some bullshit and Tor left because of that. Anyway, we kept BYNDxMDLS going and today it’s a crew of homies snowboarding, making movies and now, clothing as well.

clothing brands, so they have been a big help in all this and gave some great input as well. They have all the contacts and experience with factories that we don’t have at all. Without them this would have been a headache, for sure.

Name a snowboarder who’s always had good style…?

Kazu Kokubo.

Are you looking to change the face of snowboard fashion?

For many years snowboarders have had a notorious This is the first year of BYNDxMDLS apparel, right? How long reputation for dressing like shit. have you guys been cooking this one up?

We are not looking to change the face of snowboard fashion We have been thinking about doing apparel for a long time at all. If people are down with our clothes, we are more than now. This summer we hooked up with the right people and felt stoked. And if you don’t like it, we don’t mind. That is what’s like we had everything on point to make it happen. cool about snowboarding - everybody has got their own style.

It would have been so lame if everyone cruised around looking What kind of stuff you got available? the same.

We’ve got tees, hoodies, long sleeves, crewnecks, caps, beanies and jackets.

Where is your product available? What’s the best way for someone to get their hands on it?

Who did the design for your pieces? Who else is behind the It’s available at some skate/snow shops in Sweden, and some brand. Any other brands, movements or styles you would online retailers in Europe. The best way to get your hands on credit as inspiration for the look? our clothing is through our web shop, beyondmedals.com.

Tor and I have come up with the designs ourselves. We also Worldwide shipping, yo! work with some homies from Gothenburg who have their own 026

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P H O T O S , A R T & WO R D S : DESI REE MELANCON

Briefly explain the United Slopes project.

The project is a crazy dream that is being made into reality. The idea of United Slopes is that we drive to as many resorts as we can, and experience the people, the places and the snowboarding of each location. I have no idea how long it will take to visit all the resorts but I have plotted out at least four years. The goal is to take time to experience these places and the communities that make them unique.

Any idea how many resorts are actually in the States?

Depending if they open or not, 427-ish.

Any one resort in particular you are looking forward to and why?

For various reasons, I look forward to a lot. I am eager for United Slopes to continue away from the West Coast, away from where I know. I’m really excited to explore all of Montana and Idaho. Also, the South will be interesting. Utah, because that’s where the majority of my friends live.

The East Coast is going to rule because so much snowboarding history comes from there - that’s where it all started. I have a weird taste in my mouth about Colorado, so figuring out a better side to that is dreamy also…

How many have you hit as of today, November 4, 2016?

We will feature 18 resorts in season one from our first winter on the road. The first year had its challenges, one being a knee complication last spring that left me unable to ride in any condition other than powder. Long story short, we called the season early and I went in for another surgery. It was a shame, but I think with what we had to work with, season one is a total success.

Who else will be involved in the project?

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project for and about everyone. I’m just providing the platform to share the information. We encourage people to send us emails about their resorts, why we should come, insightful locals, places to camp, reasons why they call it home, anything…

My dream is to have the U.S.A. be shared by and include as many like-minded, passionate people as possible. Unitedslopesofamerica@gmail.com

In the Bachelor episode you talk a bit about social media, and the desire for relevance and validation that comes with it. Does the narcissism of social media and the way we judge and interpret, say someone’s Instagram, bother you?

It depends. I’m bothered by the decrease in value with what we create as snowboarders and artists. I’m bothered by the selfie generation. I’m bothered by the fabrication of impact and involvement.

I’m bothered by a lot of things. I can talk about it and I have talked about it. I think the amount that it bothered me pushed me towards trying to create something different. So I think I owe this new inspiration to my frustrations with our current culture.

How much did this play into the making of United Slopes and pursuit for a less superficial expression?

It was enough to get me motivated to contribute something more substantial to snowboarding culture, but it wasn’t the entire motivation. I think our industry is self-absorbed, obsessively self-validating, and very greedy, to the point where the biggest snow lovers can no longer relate to what some of us do. Snowboarding doesn’t cure cancer and won’t fix global warming…but it’s a lot of fun and very unique. Along with the places that make it so special, it’s the people. Some of them are pros, some of them are fans, some of them are weekend kooks, either way,

all of them live the same passions. I’m attempting to provide a platform that brings snowboarding back to a relatable level, and hopefully inspire people to do something that could make them really happy.

If you could impress one thing upon your viewers, or ask that they walk away with one thought or takeaway, what would you wish that to be?

To know that snowboarding is fun. It’s an adventure. It’s worth trying at least once to counteract the impression that energy drinks, and contests have given the general public. I know it isn’t the easiest thing to do, but I hope it encourages people to take more chances, and to get outside. I hope it shows that there’s a lot more to snowboarding than what our industry makes it out to be. I hope it makes it less serious, and more light-hearted.

Parting words…

Tyler Orton killed it. None of this could have happened without him taking a chance and moving into the camper with me for four months. I want to always thank everyone who has helped me get to where I am. All the filmers and videos from the past. Corey Mac for giving me a job digging. Java Fernandez for putting me on Salomon. The Burtners for taking a chance with me in Think Thank. Jess Kimura for always inspiring. Brynn for always being there. All the people who took the time to meet up with us this season even though we had no idea what we were really making. Salomon, Coal, Crab Grab, Thirtytwo, Drink Water, Smith, Bridges and Snowboarder Mag for thinking this wasn’t that insane of an idea. I just want to give back to snowboarding what it has given me, which is years of incredible memories having nothing but fun.

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PHOTOS: L AU R A M A R T I N E Z

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ife in White is the project of two powder freaks, Laura and Gabriel. We are originally from Spain but have set up our current base camp in the beautiful Tirol in Austria. We travel the world in a camper van, following the powder wherever it falls. Besides riding and exploring the Alps, this year we also explored Japan for two months, ripped around Iceland and avoided the northern hemisphere summer, heading to South America where we lived and traveled in a Volkswagen T2 that we bought and camper-ized in Brazil before covering 14,000 kilometers in three months, chasing the snow in the Chilean and Argentinian Andes.

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Laura is a passionate analog photographer and on our website www.lifeinwhite.com, Facebook and Instagram (@lifeinwhite) we’ve shared our affinity for snowboarding, camper vans, and the outdoors. We are simple folks, just like many of you, who focus our lives around the pursuit of white gold all over the world. Our next destination is unknown, always depending on where the guy from above sends the snow, but we are planning to go far east with the van… We’ll see in the next months!

For more wandering powder perfection, head to Methodmag.com and check out the full feature and more of Laura’s killer film work.

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Crew of the Year winners at the Finnish snowboard awards

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What is 292crew? Who is involved?

It’s a fam. 292crew is a bunch of Finnish homies with a long history together. All of us love to express ourselves by snowboarding and filming it. The main group has remained the same through all these years and every rider brings their own valuable thing to the crew. We are a group of creative and motivated people who want to tell our stories in the way of snowboarding. We all share a common goal of achieving something bigger than ourselves. We have a pretty strong list of riders including Aapo Enqvist, Anton Kiiski, Riko Rinnekangas, Rene Rinnekangas, Mikko Rehnberg, Nooa Risku, Ville Mustonen, Tatu Toivanen, Joel Ahola, Lasse Ihalainen, Tuomas Pohjonen, Antti Komulainen and Santeri Uimonen.

ourselves, doing our own thing and believing in what we do. It’s so nice to see that people are enjoying the content that we’re producing. We got the right attitude and we’re not taking it too seriously.

What will the crew be up to this year, now that you are rich, successful and famous?

Guess we have to drop out if “being rich” is a pre-requisite, as our crew has no sponsors. We’ve gotten this far without money so why can’t we go even further? This year we’re focusing a bit more on building the Finnish snowboarding culture as we find it super important. We’re aiming to make more opportunities for riders around the scene to get together and have fun. That’s what it’s all about, right? It feels like the whole filming thing has gotten a bit stuck in the old traditions of “how it should be done”. This year we’re trying to eliminate some of these traditions and progress our thing by doing it a bit differently.

We saw in a photo from the awards ceremony that someone was wearing a Brazzers hoodie?

Where did you find that?

Where is crew headquarters?

We’d love to have our headquarters Riko is the guy who wears Jack Daniels t-shirts and Lacoste caps bought at Helsinginkatu 13 as there is a nice pizzeria (open till 4 a.m.) and a from Turkish tourist shops during sick Asian massage place (24 hours). his all-inclusive holidays (typical Yet we have to run after the snow as Finn…). So a Brazzers hoodie fits pretty well in his wardrobe. Guess we kind of need it to do our shit. he just bought a 1-year membership to Brazzers and got it as a bargain?

Why 292crew as a name? Is it an We have no idea… area code or something? If so, make up something better.

Preferred type of porn for the “Wings on my back, I got horns 292crew? on my head. My fangs are sharp, MILF is lit, POV is the best. and my eyes are red. Not quite an angel, or the one that fell. Now If the crew had one final mission choose to join us or go straight to before the end of the earth, what Hell” - Lordi. Haven’t you heard would it be… about Lordi? Don’t you know how We want to leave our mark on the many points they won the Eurovision song contest by back in 2006? snowboarding culture. We want to do something that people will Go check out Lordi – “Hard Rock remember 292crew for. We want to Hallelujah” and educate yourself, inspire people to start doing their please. We come from the ashes of Lordi’s unforgotten winning points own thing and start filming it. To enjoy the soul of snowboarding and we’ll spread the word of Mr. Lordi by representing Finland. Hey, and not to care too much what others may think about it. We want it’s not our problem that you guys the snowboard scene to be more voted for Lordi to win. You reap colorful and inspire people to do what you sow. whatever they like! It’s not just You recently won crew of the year about hitting the craziest spots or at the Finnish snowboard awards? doing the most corks. That’s one hell of a mission…

How does that feel? And what does it take to win such an honor?

Make sure to check out our social It feels like losing your virginity... media channels: Obviously it means a shit-ton to us. We’ve been working so hard for Instagram: @292crew, Facebook: @292crew. many years and finally the hard Full version on MethodMag.com work pays off. We are just being

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B E N F E RG U S O N & S H A U N PA L M E R PROOF OF THE REPTILIAN AGENDA In a breaking story from the bowels of the Almighty Internet comes a shocking revelation: 21-year old Bend, Oregon snowboarder Ben Ferguson, may actually be a polished, modernized incarnation of the legendary South Lake Tahoe ripper, Shaun Palmer.

Given the “shared” affinity for rock and roll and undeniable boarding talent of these “two” high-profile stars, these recently uncovered photographs take on a whole new weight. Whether Ferguson is a hologram, Palmer in the flesh using an unidentified youth serum, or to quote the great philosopher Frank “The Tank” Richard from the film Old School - “Maybe (it’s) something really cool that I don’t even know about” - remains to be determined.

While we have zero sources thus far to corroborate this claim, it’s fucking 2016 and conventional journalistic practices have been pissed out the sordid window. In the current fashion: assert first and worry about concrete proof later.

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Style comes in all forms. Whether building custom motorcycles, sipping cervezas, creating art, or snowboarding, Nick Dirks just has more style than the average man. Not to mention he just has more fun. Dirks constantly reminds us to Stay Wild, and he’s designed his Airblaster outerwear to be a simple, timeless, and functional testament to true style. Airblaster is the original fun company and curator of timeless snowboard style. We deliver fashion and function in nice packages for humans that slide sideways. Please Stay Wild.

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Continuing in the steeped and storied tradition of Salt Lake City surrealism comes an eye-opening piece aptly titled, “Fucking Rasta Colored Naked Soccer Chicks.” This stark new work from East Coast-raised, SLC-based snowboarder/artist/musician, Andrew Aldridge, was pulled from it’s current Louvre exhibit for a special Method Mag showing and raises vital questions about the tortured core of human nature, the trials and tribulations which have formed said core, and most notably…DAT ASS. Fucking culture, y’all! art: @andrew_aldrige tunes: @hot_vodka

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Brad Holmes (left), Shaun Palmer (right), and Bob Klein (not pictured) had formed a punk band called Fungus in 1992. Performing at Humpty’s in Tahoe City in winter, 1993, they were definitely crowd pleasers. They played around Lake Tahoe for a few years and released a CD in the late ‘90s.

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* Bryce working the nostalgia of a blunt and an S rail

P H O T O S : P U T I T I N T H E B OW L

From where does your blood run?

I’m Bryce Bugera or Bruce Bugatti, 22, born and raised in Oyama, BC.

What’s in your blood?

Besides snowboarding and drinking cheap beer, my time is usually spent throwing my frisbee golf disc into trees or getting bloody shins skateboarding.

Who are your blood brothers?

The Put it in the Bowl crew. Tommy, Fonduh, Guido and Teilhard, with Liam making us look better at snowboarding than we actually are. And the whole One T family back in Whistler.

What gets your blood pumping?

Trap music.

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Actually landing one of the tricks I claim.

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Worst bloodshed?

The odd black eye sometimes paired with nine stitches (shout out Red Dog) or the Sun Peaks taco on the rail I suggested they build.

What makes your blood run cold?

Running out of beer and growing up.

Blood on my hands…

Double and even triple dipping.

Got any bad blood?

People with bad blood.

Who keeps the blood flowing?

One T Apparel, Signal Snowboards, Modest Eyewear, One Boardshop.

Written in blood…

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* More great style from Laax, shocker! Elio keeping up a longstanding tradition..

P H O T O S : A A R O N S C H WA R T Z

From where does your blood run?

My name’s Elio Fumagalli. I’m from the south (Italian region) of Switzerland and I’m 20 years old.

What makes your blood run cold?

Climbing at altitude… But I kind of like that feeling when the adrenaline kicks in.

What’s in your blood?

I like to do any outdoor sports, play guitar, party, meet new people and travel.

Blood on my hands…

Once upon a time, when I was like 11 years old, I was enjoying the carnival with my friends. There was a toilet cabin with a little tilted window and me and my friends were trying to throw petards (small explosives) through the window while there was an older mom in there. After a few tries, I hit the open slip and the petard exploded inside giving the poor lady half a heart attack! She came out of the cabin terrifyingly angry. I ran for my life and disappeared in the crowd!

Who are your blood brothers?

I’m still not part of any crew, but I’ll start filming with the Mindset crew this upcoming season. The best people to snowboard with are those who don’t take snowboarding too seriously. I mean, snowboarding shouldn’t be some sport where you distinguish the best rider from the worst. I like to see creative shredders who enjoy snowboarding.

What gets your blood pumping?

Listening to A Tribe Called Quest when I’m jibbing, haha! (best rhythm ever). Creative, authentic minds inspire me in snowboarding and life in general.

Got any bad blood?

I hate to see snowboarding becoming more of a competitive sport. I see snowboarding as a lifestyle activity and not a means for competitive comparison. Snowboarding has to be understood individually. High-performance contests do not offer the opportunity for creativity and therefore individuality suffers.

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Fly up to an altitude of 5 km, jump out of a plane, and enjoy the Who keeps the blood flowing? free fall while bleeding out.

A very big thank you to everybody who supports me and believes in my riding, especially to the family, sponsors, phoWorst bloodshed? tographers and filmers and everybody who makes it possible Almost tore my ACL while playing indoor hockey. Fuck it. I had for me to follow my dreams. to do rehab for only three months, fortunately. But I was so pissed because I couldn’t go snowboarding the entire summer Written in blood… and I really like to cruise on the glaciers with slushy conditions Big thanks to Method Mag for introducing me in the Fresh and warm temperatures.

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From where does your blood run?

Wasssup? My name is Tatu Toivanen. I’m 22 years old, raised in the streets of Lahti, Finland and I Iike to do stuff - snowboarding, for example. I’ve been filming snowboarding since 2007.

Currently doing a internship in Switzerland and trying to catch some good days in the mountains blowing that Swiss smoke.

wooden rail. Still feel it sometimes. I’ve had a lot of smaller ones during the years but nothing too bad.

What’s in your blood?

Skateboarding and spending time outdoors with my homies and the J are written in my DNA. Last summer I caught my first grayling and reached a couple mountain peaks. I enjoy taking photographs and drawing sometimes. Building skate-able stuff is also pretty fun and rewarding.

Blood on my hands…

Always running late and forgetting things I shouldn’t forget…

Who are your blood brothers?

Everybody from 292crew, much love!!! Not to forget all the friends from my hometown, and all around. You are my blood brothers...

What gets your blood pumping?

Lots of things get my blood pumping: slushy sessions in the spring, spraying that snow in the mountains and landing a trick that has been in mind for a long time, especially in the streets. Skating a good park and seeing my friends doing their stuff, whatever it is at the time, will always get me hyped.

Catching that grayling was also pretty intense.

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Mt. Yotei.

Worst bloodshed?

Dislocated my elbow many years back when front blunting a

What makes your blood run cold?

Giving speed with the winch to Smokey when he is about to give a test-try for a roof gap.

Got any bad blood?

It’s a fucking fucked up world we live in. Many things should be different out here. Some stupid people get me bummed out, like with the changing climate. I want my childhood winters back.

Who keeps the blood flowing?

Shout out to my local shop Sinne Store for Ashbury and always having my back, Boardsport Finland for giving me a good price on Arbor Snowboards and Union for the bindings I’ve got. Also, to my family and girlfriend for supporting me and making it possible to have good times and to all the friends for keeping me inspired, thank you!

Written in blood…

Go out and do whatever you like. Be thankful for what you have. I pretty much grew up riding and filming street stuff and it has led me on an interesting road where I’ve met so many good people and progressed as a snowboarder as well as a human being on so many levels. I’m thankful for everybody who has inspired me to choose this way and to all the amazing people I’ve met during this journey. I’m really looking forward to where all this snowboarding sickness will lead me

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ome think that the magic of a trick occurs when someone lands the trick and rides away. To me, the magic occurs when we roll up to a spot, get out of the car, and start the conversation that comes with trying to figure out what could be done there, or what one is capable of doing. This is what makes Cole so special. Cole’s brain never stops for anything. Whether it’s an electrical box, a rock, or some giant rail, there’s always a unique conversation that begins the path to a trick.

This is what I enjoy so much about him, because those conversations have turned into some of the best things I’ve ever filmed, and some of my greatest memories in snowboarding.

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* BS 720 melon in Ovronnaz

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uri picks up: Yo, yo!

Yo, yo. What’s up, man?

All good, just hanging out right now.

What are you up to?

Same shit.

Same old, same old.

It’s Poland’s Independence Day today (home of current Method office). Wish we were out partying.

Poland’s Independence Day? I thought you were back in Portland? Oh! You wrote Poland! (laughs) I read that wrong.

That would be cool, too! That’s really funny.

So it’s like a big fiesta going on?

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I think last night was the big party night. I am sure people are out partying today but we are just wrapping up some magazine stuff. When is the Swiss Independence Day celebration?

It’s on the first of August.

What’s a typical celebration include?

Just drinking and playing with fireworks pretty much.

At least there is one thing the world can agree on.

Yeah! Two homies of mine are super into heli drones. So this year we started lighting crazy shit off and they filmed it all with the heli drone and it looks pretty tight!

Sounds cool!

What do you want to do the interview about?

Basically just talk random bullshit like this. Here is something that surprised us recently. When we were in Zurich for the Method Movie premiere, we seemed to be in a normal neighborhood, and we walked one block from the theatre and there were a ton of prostitutes coming up to us. Is this fairly standard? Guess it just caught us off guard. (laughs) Yeah that’s Zurich bro. That’s the long street. Yeah, I am not too sure, I don’t know too much about it, but Dave (Djite) would have the answers you are looking for!

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It was a blast partying around town with you two. Tell him thanks for the local tour! What else have you been doing to occupy your time?

Well, I did a month in Bali. Pretty much just all of September occupying my time over there with the chica and then Tor, Ulrik, Sebbe… pretty much the whole BYNDxMDLS crew was over there and lots of other people. Just hanging out there surfing.

How were the waves?

So good. Whole month of fat swell. It was so sick.

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Who is the best surfer out of all of y’all?

It’s hard to say. Everyone is cruising. At this one spot, there was this one local sea cow hanging around. I thought he was the best surfer! This local sea cow would just always show up somewhere super random at this one spot, just lurking around. It was pretty funny because no one knew what it was at first. It just looked like a huge fucking barrel or something like that. It was always at the same spot, just coming up to say, “Sup, peeps how is the surf today?”

Loc dawg. Did you go to Pretty Poison or any of those bowls?

Fuck yeah! Pretty Poison was like my fa-

vorite spot. That was our last week, just spent everyday there pretty much.

The skate scene there seems pretty incredible.

It’s so sick. We checked some edits of Pretty Poison out online before we went and it looked super smooth and like, ya know, just mellow, cruisy. But you get there and it’s got this steep low end and is pretty gnarly actually. But it’s sick because on the weekends, or whatever day really, you get so many people just partying around there and the vibe is the shit! I hope we can do a mandatory Bali trip every year before the season gets started.

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* BS 3 in Champéry. Watch his parts, take notes kids

That’d be the life! One thing that I always thought was funny - how the hell do you respond to people when they say, “Oh, Max Buri? He might be like the next Nico one day!” (laughs) Ahhhh, I don’t know! It’s generally a weird question, like, you never really know what to answer. Sometimes I laugh or am just like, “yeah right, in my dreams.”

Whose name would you drop as someone who could be the next iconic pow ripper?

Lots of kids... Hitsch’s edit just came out and that is sick. He is one dude. The boys I love to shred with, Dave, Leo, Crusty, the whole BYNDxMDLS crew. When we

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were in Japan, they were all ripping the pow like there was no tomorrow. I think Kevin especially - he fucking rips it and always blows my mind when we go out with him. Tor, too. Japan just in general was the sickest pow trip.

We were pretty impressed with Sevi Van Der Meer’s stuff in your shared part in the new Absinthe movie. Killer work on that by the way, from both of ya! Came out awesome man.

Thanks, man! Sevi for sure. He rips! For the first year being out with everyone and the whole Absinthe crew, he fucking killed it. He destroyed the whole ballpark. I thought it was pretty groovy that I got to share the part with Sevi because

he is all about the same stuff I am all about, just going out and not really stressing it. Going out and seeing what the day brings to you, ya know?

You could see in the part that you two worked well together.

For sure, that’s the sick thing about that whole crew. I’ve got to name one more person I would put on that list.

You know Worm? Fucking Worm! He rips, too! I love shredding with those dudes. But yeah, Sevi, he is a sneaky motherfucker sometimes! (laughs) He got sick like three times last winter when we went out to build some kind of huge, twelve block cheese wedge and then he always showed up the next

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* SW BS 540 stalefish

day, super back to health like, “Ahhh, you think I could hit the jump with you boys!” (laughs) Those were some funny moments from last winter. He is going to bring it back for us this winter; he’s got three cheese wedges he still needs to build.

Pay up, buddy! Pay up! Well, it’s looking like it’s going to be a good winter.

Well shit, I don’t want to jinx it, if that’s even a thing. Are you a superstitious person?

Not really. I kind of think that the stuff you say is kind of connected to the universe if you know what I mean?

Like it has a ripple effect. Even if it is at random, it all has a connection I guess?

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That would be more the way I see it. It happens sometimes if you say something - like skating for example - you might be bad mouthing something, like, “I am never going to get anything or I am never going to get this trick.” Well, then yeah, you are never going to get it. I guess that has a connection kind of.

That’s been my experience with that sort of thing. I just try to open my mind.

One more for ya because it’s Friday night and you got things to do! When it’s Friday and you’ve got no bullshit to handle, nothing on the plate, what do you like to do?

I would love to go rip our new pool.

We’ve got a new pool at the Righthaller

but it just opened the last couple months and it’s fucking cold now. But I wish I could be there. On Friday and Saturday nights it’s exactly like Pretty Poison, just in my hometown. You know in Copenhagen the Christiania (district)? It’s just like that. It’s this old horseback riding building, but that has been gone forever, and now it’s just this huge empty party house with graffiti everywhere and it is just lawless. The police can’t do anything on that property. That’s the Righthaller.

Fuck I wish I could go out and shred that a bit right now, but your bones would be cold!

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hat’s your take on foam pits and air bags and their place in snowboarding?

Well, I broke my ankle on an airbag and hurt my neck (jumping) into a foam pit.

Actually, they were my two most serious injuries, so I think I will stay on snow from now on.

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on maybe doing some little webisodes with my good friend Klaudia Medlova.

More female riders are gaining support to leave the competition scene in pursuit of filming street and backcountry parts, do you see this as a viable option for you in the near future?

Yes, I actually really want to try to get Do you reckon this season’s going to be into filming when I’m done competing. the year of the doubles to win contests I think there are so many parts of snowboarding that I haven’t even experienced for women? or tried yet. I really want to learn more Yeah, it’s really cooI to see the progresabout the backcountry and try out some sion of the girls! I think 720s are not going to make the cut anymore. I’m sure street stuff. we’ll see some doubles and 900s! HopeHave you seen Full Moon yet? What are fully even a 1080. your thoughts on what those girls are Are you focusing on contests all winter taking on, and who are some female rippers you currently look up to? or do you have any filming projects Yes, of course I have seen it! It’s not all planned?

This season is pretty heavy with contests the time that there is an all-girls backbecause it’s the Olympic qualifying year, country movie. I have to say I was really but I really like to film and I am planning impressed. I know the girls didn’t have

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the best two snow years and they still put out such sick parts with really cool lines.

Also, the storyline was really inspiring.

Kimmy Fasani and Marie-France Roy have always been role models for me, but to see Jamie go from contests to doing lines in Alaska was really cool. I also look up to my contest girls, like Spencer O’Brien, Enni Rukajarvi, Klaudia Medlova and Hailey Langland because they always push it.

Who do you like to ride with throughout the winter when you’ve got time to cruise?

I really like to ride with my homeboys - Clemens Millauer, Seppl Ramsbacher, Grilo… And at the contest scene I have my girl squad with Klaudia, Spencer and Enni.

Have you ever had your passed pulled?

Yes, I actually got my Tirol card pulled

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* Honest people rule, good on ya Anna. BS 180 at Views From the 7th PHOTOS: ERI N HOGU E

two years ago. I tried to get it cheaper by saying I’m a local, which worked pretty well for the first two months. But then they double checked and blocked it.

Have you ever been in trouble?

Haha! Yes, I have been in trouble many times, but most of the time it’s because I’m a little forgetful and chaotic. For example, just a couple weeks ago I got stuck in Japan because I forgot to fill out a visa.

Give us some insight on your transition from the Austrian national gymnastics team to the national snowboard team.

I didn’t go straight from the gymnastics team to the snowboard team. There were a lot of years in between. I stopped gymnastics at 14 and I actually didn’t get on the Austrian Snowboard Team until the Olympics in Sochi.

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How do you feel about people drawing comparisons between gymnastics and snowboarding? Is it relevant? Do you care if people find it “cool” or not?

I think gymnastics is a really good base for most sports and I wouldn’t have gotten to the level I am at today without it. I don’t even think it’s similar to snowboarding but just the air awareness I learned as a kid helped me later with my snowboarding. I don’t think people hate on what you did as a kid. It’s more like what you do now and how your snowboarding looks.

You’ve now been riding for a good handful of years. What spurred the interest in boarding?

Yeah, I started pretty late. This is “only” my seventh season, I think. My cousin showed me a snowboard movie in the fall and I wanted to try it out straight away. I remember we went to the glacier next day.

What’s your take on women riders being sexed up for an image? It’s nothing new, just want to hear your perspective. For instance, Jamie on the Sports Illustrated cover, or your Red Bulletin piece… Is it harmless fun and all good and the PC people should chill, or is it something that needs to be addressed?

Well, this is a hard question. When I got the offer from Red Bulletin I was considering for a long time if I wanted to do it or not because I didn’t want to sell myself for something that’s not me.

But we got to make a lot of decisions with the shoot, for example, (on) the photographer and location. I think as long as the pictures are sporty and highquality and not naughty, it is OK for me.

But everyone has to make this decision for themselves.

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Kas Lemmens, andrecht, 2013 * First real trip, besides to glaciers, with Kash Lemons. We hit this church in Axamer Lizum. A few days earlier, on the 31st of December, 2012, I destroyed my knee riding down the Nordkette to Innsbruck, but managed the pain to continue with Postland. Glad I did, otherwise I would have missed this phenom learning handplants on the spot and laughing off almost wrecking his beautiful face on some rusty nails.

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rowing up below sea level has it’s fantasies. Rolling around the concrete jungle of Rotterdam is a dream on four wheels, but mountains only exist one week a year. Struggling teenage knees make room for connected indoor survival, sleeping under domes. Outdoor living America shaping champagne floatations in solid form. Upon return the lowlands scene exploded and friends were setting bars on fire in the field of trickery. Ball surgery mistake leads to wheelchair life and a period.

Journeying halfway across the planet we created a hairy path for ourselves. Non-directional forward thrust with little to no regard for personal safety. Make a film, destroy yourself, lose yourself, finish the film on the day it’s namesake holder passes on.

Lose the film, lose your mind, anger, guilt, hatred. Homeless and broke. Lynch a lynx in the Swedish dark with a stone around your neck. Periscope uncharted territory on a crutch emerging victorious with half a face. Battle more health and demons, reshape a leg, keep on, lose even more. Redirect, realize, decide, love, ride, work, forage, dig for the world; the way of growth.

Organically induced cosmic change leading to appreciation and dedication. Carry purifying compassion in your heart for a life well led. Recognize gifts. Harmony brings gratitude and your wishes will be fulfilled on this magnificent Earth, developing bountiful green for you to surf the white winter wave.

Crystalized flashes of consciousness creating an apology through the vision of writing a “thank you and the universe” note.

This is the first time these photos are published, thanks Method.

Thanks, Method.

- Lenn Verjans

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Cees Wille, 50-50 shifty, 2008 * Blower in a hoodie and a couple tall tees only works when your idea of fun is a frozen skirt. Luckily, the kid brought his purp Misfits Grenade jacket to poke on a pow day in Gaverland, Italy. The mayhem of this first trip shooting with the Cheese resulted in a 10-page Italian Snowboarder Mag feature a couple weeks later, which only had one photo of partner in crime, Gerben Verweij, chosen.

Anthony Indawood, pow wheelie, 2012 * Fast forward four years and I took Indawood and Rachida Aoulad El Haj Amar on one hell of a ride, front nose 270’ing GV’s golden Passat on the highway in southern Germany. Luckily Anthony brought Cees his old jacket to rip some early season Laax pow on a 148 cm. Took me until summer ‘16 to fully repay the whip and I received Indawood’s part of the outstanding rent a few months after.

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David Struber, 50-50 front board, 2014* Tarvisio, Italy late in the season and domdom101 lands a switch nosepress cab 3 into this gritty church bank. Davo, however, was perfecting these long-ass, smooth looking 50s to front board scratchers, which I captured on film with my dad’s first camera. Our buddy Diz who helped shovel that day, brought us cake and shot from the corner below.

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Steef van der Meer, FS 360 nose tap, 2013 * On the night before Christmas Eve 2009 Steef did this front three nose tap for the first time in the harbor of Scheveningen with Nosa Ketting filming at 2 a.m. Come January 2013 and Holland gets blessed with snow, which hypes the man to do a first try 2 a.m. replica without shoveling a landing. Second try stomp gets this photo. Four more years and it first sees the light of print.

Bob van Unnik, boardslide hopper, 2013 * In 2009, young van Unnik tried this rail but we didn’t get the clip. Give it a few years and he comes back blasting a 50 first try with a little kid in the landing exclaiming to his mom, “I wanna do that when I grow up!” He’s gonna have to bring better game seeing as Tim Schiphorst filmed Bob’s boardslide triple hop ender a bit later.

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* Eric Messier truly has a timeless style, on full display on a legendary Tahoe hip

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* Ben Rice, fan of simple pleasu res

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* Ty, OZ and their unending lust for life

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* Ol’ Stunt Dick Gerry with a tropical FS 360

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* Spring Break mastermind, Corey Smith, buries one

* Ty-bud on the Catamaran

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* The Power of OZ

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WO R D S A N D P H O T O S : R O B E R T O B R AG O T T O

When you think about an RV trip, usually you envision a family holiday, connected to the summer time, the seaside, the comfort of warm places and leisurely camping.

Generally speaking, it’s a mellow trip allowing the freedom to move wherever you want with no stress.

Well, this time, it wasn’t like that at all.

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* 6 dudes, 1 van, 1 FS 180 stalefish

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* Marco Morandi, the man behind DVP

* Add a simple “the” and this trick sounds like an orgiastic porn troupe…

“Please welcome to the stage, The Switch Backside 5!”

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* Rest assured Halldor knows how to get his hands dirty - switch BS 720 nosegrab

We spent almost a month living in our RV, driving around the Alps, Searching For the best powder conditions, braving -15 Celsius at 3,000 meters above sea level, bunking with seven guys in a small room on wheels, sleeping in rigid places without the chance to take a shower for long stretches. But at least we were never more than 200 meters from our spots. Italy’s Seiser Alm was the starting point and our first approach to the RV life.

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* Ethan trades front nines through the trees instead of swapping feces and puke with a homegirl..

The weather was not so good - the “winter” looking a whole lot more like spring - with warm temperatures everywhere in Europe. We were super stoked about the trip, but at the same time, a bit concerned by the snow forecast and high temperatures. After we scoped out the weather for a few days we decided to drive to the Austrian Alps. We thought that the Arlberg would be the safer and smarter place, like usual, to get shots.

After a first rainy day spent chilling in RV, we awoke the next morning to about 50 centimeters of fresh snow. We were surprised, but you never know what will happen in the mountains. Thanks to this we were able to build three different kickers and head back “home” with good shots. After a couple of days spent in the RV, we no longer pined for a cold shower or minded the poor sleeping conditions - we cared solely about driving around the Alps, following the storms, uncovering perfect places to score fresh powder and getting as many shots as possible.

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Cervino”, a small lodge on the top of the mountain, just 200 meters from the zone. We spent such good times over there and Marco Grigis, Simon Gruber and Ethan Morgan returned every day with insane shots. We were so stoked - everything was going so well that Halldor Helgason and Joe Carlino also joined us for a whole week.

After a week spent rallying through the Austrian Alps, we decided to roll on to the French Alps, around the “Mont Blanc” area. This time, we were not so lucky. Well, we found powder, but it was windy over there and after a couple of days shooting in the forest we decided to cross the Alps again and move to the Italian side, this time to the Dolomites, where a heavy snow storm from the south was expected. More than 70 centimeters of fresh snow, bluebird skies and perfect temperatures awaited. After two weeks spent in the RV, we finally got the chance to sleep in a warm and comfy bed, with proper dinners every evening, thanks to the hospitality of “Capanna

Italy, as I hope you know, is a place of friendship, where people go out of their way to make you feel at home.

This time, I suppose our mountain gave us everything we needed. Powder, bluebird conditions and crazy sunsets. We couldn’t have asked for a better ending.

The last stop of our journey around the Dolomites was insane and I’d reckon this RV trip was one of the best experiences of my life; A true adventure around one of the best places in the world: The Alps.

I anxiously await this upcoming winter and the opportunity to spend time again with these guys, with these friends.

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WORDS: ASPEN WEAVER WITH BLAKE AXELSON ON THE ASSIST

can easily say the VZ lodge was the most insane couple months of my life.

When you put eight snowboarders in a massive house, add a tattoo gun, a PBR sponsorship and blessings from El Nino, shit is bound to get rowdy! We built a slalom course in the backyard and jumped through fire and had lots of late nights, with early morning rousts from Duke, the #1 TM in the game.

Huge thanks for coordinating all these shenanigans!

- Josh Naasz

Think about a five-bedroom cabin standing amongst mighty pines, with two living rooms, just enough bathrooms, a garage and backyard jib park. This all sat within walking distance of a world-class terrain park, a five-minute drive from snowmobile trailheads, and 10 minutes away from a beach view that could get even your grandma wet. Yeah, that was our VonZipper Wildlife Lodge in Truckee, CA. The experiment was the brainchild of Stephen Duke, our Team Manager, and he had about seven weeks to incubate his team (Hana Beaman, Mary & Marcus Rand, Brian Skorupski, Halldor Helgason, Brendan & Red Gerard, Blake Axelson, Ian Boll, Ryland West, Josh Nassz & myself) before spitting us out into the world with a mega hard drive full of clips and some fantastic memories. It was set up as a surefire way to create content for VZ and reconnect with a scene (Tahoe) that had been “dead” for a while.

But what he didn’t know is that we would become a full on “gang”. Friendships, frustrations, highs, lows, and most importantly, camaraderie would all come to fruition over the course of our time in Tahoe. All of this stellar energy was created through everyone’s necessity to feed their “Wild-life,” and that’s exactly what we did.

I arrived to the cabin with cars lining the road and a very obvious rager under way inside the bowels of my new home. As I strolled in there were about 100 people partying; the whiskey was flowing, empty PBR cans littered the counters (p.s. thanks for the beer!), the noise pushed a dull roar, and that old familiar smell was palpable…boots. This beautiful house seemed to procure “toys,” like the Karaoke machine with only ‘80s pop, and even a tattoo gun from the Strange Brew crew, which ended up permanently marking nearly everyone who walked through our door. These tattoos were our first marks as our own VonZipper gang. Some were good, and others, not so much. This scene of friendly debauchery was fairly constant within our house and most nights were filled with “adult activities” whether it was tossing water balloons at people sleeping, harassing the cute waitresses at the sushi restaurant or causing a scene at Monday Night Bowling in Incline Village. One night there was about 10 of us at the bowling alley, running down the lanes, throwing balls through our legs, yelling at each other to watch the next shitty/drunk trick shot that would inevitably get no pins and definitely get us 86’d from the place. Of course, the nights always continued on over to the Pub, where Halldor pulled out his nuts (ed. note: shocker!) and actually set them on the pool table in order to distract his opponents. On the contrary, it made most women in the room stop dead and gawk while every man took a mental note of which pool table to never touch again. Every night was different for us and nothing was short of slightly controlled mayhem. The only consistent thing - our camaraderie.

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Blake Axelson. Hand drag and a face full of nickel P H O T O : DA N N Y K E R N

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The vet, Hana Beaman, finds herself some gold

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Despite having a firm grasp on partying, we indeed managed to create some magical moments on our boards. I mean, look at the roster! Luckily, 2016 was a very giving year for Tahoe, so pow was the main objective and what better place to have a refresher course on spots, crews, and the history of snowboarding. Tahoe has some of the coolest crews and we linked up with them all from Day 1. The Spring Break guys (Corey Smith, Oz-Man, Ty Bud and Maxwell Scott) were an unbelievably accommodating group of friends who constantly shared their knowledge and zones with us. The Strange Brew crew was incredible too, inviting us one afternoon to come shred their backyard that, of course, turned into a full-scale, six-hour snowboard and BBQ extravaganza.

We built a bunch of features, downed nearly 100 beers, did innumerable amounts of backflips and went home sore, tired, and drunk. One night in particular Danny Kern called us around 7 p.m. and mentioned he had a grip of lights. It was time for night slashing! We all suited up and drove toward Mount Rose, meeting with the boys along the way. Car shuttling for hours, we slashed pow until about 1 a.m. with headlights, phone lights and anything else we had that beamed until all batteries were dead.

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Ian Boll, 50-50 at, you guessed it…

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Psyched to see more from Mary Rand in the backcountry!

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Our time together in Tahoe allowed a prime opportunity for us to appreciate the snowboard history that shaped us. In fact, it was legendary for all of us to stand on PHOTO: IAN top of jumps that we had been watching for decades at this point. Possibly one of the most psychedelic moments was watching Red Gerard launch a massive double crippler in the very spot where Terry Kidwell had created the mythical Kidwell Quarterpipe on Donner Summit. Watching Blake Axelson do a lofty backflip off of “stock rock” above Donner Lake and watching Halldor slash pow right where people like Craig Kelly, and Ross Powers had was enough to send shivers down any snowboarder’s spine. It was also amazing to see Mary and Marcus Rand making big moves on the backcountry side of things. By the end of the seven weeks, we had hit all of the spots as a crew.

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Halldor, the nutsack swinging party lobster P H O T O : DA N N Y K E R N

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Dude, you spilt some. Aspen Weaver, inverted P H O T O : DA N N Y K E R N

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Fleshlight, flashlight, who gives a shit. Aspen doing what it takes during an all-time night mission P H O T O : DA N N Y K E R N

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* All jacked up on cheap whiskey and PBR. Blake, Cab 540 PHOTO: BEN BI RK

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PHOTO: BLAKE AXELSON

Throughout our time in Tahoe, we slowly began to make our own small skid mark on snowboarding’s history. We started out not knowing one another, and coming from all facets of this world with one thing uniting us: the love we have for standing sideways. We are a group forged in the flames of frames, a squad full of all power forwards. With lenses clashing, hot chicks flashing, powder bashing, beer smashing, tomahawk crashing - we are our own gang…

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Welcome guys. Thank you for sitting down with the Method crew. I think a lot of the audience would be keen to know how you guys connected? The Fourth Phase offers a different take on the snowboard movie, obviously. Would you mind, explaining where the concept came from and how you implemented it?

TR: I think that the concept behind the film is an ode and almost a bit of a love story to water and the hydrological processes that bring our winter. They have kind of been the guiding light into a certain type of lifestyle really. For me, it was inspired by Bryan Iguchi, who many of you might know, and some of his philosophies behind essentially living the life of a hydrologist, if you will, in pursuit and appreciation of these incredible natural processes. I think it was like 15 years ago he wrote this poem, which ended with these beautiful words: This process we follow, this cycle we ride. And that was a theme that we have taken with us for quite some time.

After finishing The Art of Flight, I, for one, did not want to make The Art of Flight 2 and I think our whole crew was interested and intrigued to try and take on a little more expansive process, which four years later, became The Fourth Phase.

Through our pursuit of trying to immerse ourselves in a better understanding of this natural process, of where our weather comes from, in going through this research, I stumbled upon the work of Dr. Gerald Pollack and his book called The Fourth Phase of Water. I think people might not realize this. I actually reached out and cold-called Gerry and came out and met with him where he lives in Seattle, Washington and kind of asked for his blessing and permission to use The Fourth Phase as the title of our film.

You must be very flattered by that?

Dr: Oh, I was really. I had never heard of Travis Rice… I didn’t know and we met at a local restaurant and it was a lovely dinner. I felt an immediate resonance and it was an opportunity…

Most of us scientists are stuck in the ivory tower - we don’t get out. We don’t really realize there is a life outside the ivory tower (laughs) Scientists speak to other scientists and this was a golden opportunity (to speak outside of that). It didn’t take much arm twisting for me to say yes. It was, “Yes, wonderful!,” and so it began that way. It’s an opportunity because we discovered something about water that I think is pretty basic.

What we found actually is simple in that it explains a lot about water in a simple way but yet it adds one more phase.

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We’ve all grown up (learning) that water has three phases, right? Solid, liquid, vapor, but there is another one, and the one that we discovered is this fourth phase. It is a kind of crystalline phase of water and it’s all over the place. In fact, the water inside your body, inside your cells, is almost all fourth phase water. It’s this liquid, crystalline water. It’s kind of gel-like. It forms any time water meets a so called hydrophilic, or water-loving, surface. If you have a surface and you drop some water on it and the water spreads out then it is a hydrophilic surface. That is fourth phase water. On the other hand, if you take a piece of Teflon and put water on it, it beads up, and that is hydrophobic - the surface hates the water, fears it. And so the water backs out and doesn’t want to communicate with this surface.

I am going to test this when I get home later. (laughs) TR: For us, the work he has done, is just fascinating because, A) how better to understand these massive processes than trying to understand them at the very basic level, at the foundation, the root, in microscopic form, to understand what is really going on. That is why we were really inspired by his work.

Truly amazing concepts. No other snowboard movie has touched on this realm at all so it’s really interesting.

Dr: There was a natural integration between the two.

The Fourth Phase is a massive movie project. Do any particular moments or aspects within the production, whether it was a piece of equipment, a certain destination or a day of riding, stand out now that it’s completed?

TR: I think some of the real obvious moments come through pretty strong in the film, like, try and try and try and then something actually really works out and those are, I think, pretty self-explanatory scenes.

But really the film itself is a sum of all of its parts. Quite frankly, some of my fondest memories and the most important moments to me are the more subtle moments, the more interstitial parts of the film that are not necessarily a crescendo. I think some of my fondest memories go back to these more transitionary states when we are not necessarily riding out of the best line in Japan. It’s like the big moment of actually trying to land a trick (is clear), but for me, the ones that stand out in my memory are probably the ones that weren’t even captured.

How about that avalanche? (laughs) TR: That was definitely pretty memorable. (laughs) How would you describe the ways in which The Fourth Phase differs from The Art of Flight or That’s It, That’s All? TR: For us it has been like anything else, it has been steps along the way, different chapters in the book, so to speak. We did The Community Project and then That’s It, That’s All, and Art of Flight and that’s actually more of a bonus reason why the film is called The Fourth Phase. This is also the fourth film that we have done. It’s kind of a fun, tongue in cheek style. We did That’s it, That’s All, which was the first time we were able to really help the viewer have a better understanding of these fantastic places we were able to go. And then The Art of Flight, which was kind of That’s It, That’s All 2, really, and when we finished The Art of Flight I think our whole crew felt that we were ready to try something different. Ready to try something maybe a little bit more honest and try to tell a little bit more of the story, you know? So on this film, I think we finally thought we were ready to try to kind of tell the backstory behind those pursuits.

Have you guys even begun to think about what could be next, or is this the culmination of the series?

TR: No doubt, Brain Farm will do other projects. I think it’s just kind of human nature when you finish a project to kind of have a basis, a new zero point that references the perspective of where you just were and where you are at now. For me, there is not necessarily a film project

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that we are working on now. For me, it’s the Supernatural contest series. Honestly, my pursuit is trying to grow that event because I still believe that it has the grounds to be the highest echelon of competitive snowboarding. I am going to put a lot of my effort into trying to bring that thing back. In talking with Gerry - how old is The Fourth Phase of Water book that you put out?

Dr: It was 2013 when it came out. Three years ago.

TR: So you could ask him the same question: “Are you done, you happy?” It’s like no, he is working on another project and another book.

We’ve got a couple non-Fourth Phase related questions for you. Can you revisit one of our editor’s favorite snowboard movie moments, when you guys blow up the van in Night of the Living Shred, and maybe shed some new light on something unknown? Perhaps this moment is lost on younger readers.

(Travis laughs and explains briefly to Dr. Gerry where we are going) TR: Some friends of mine had a glove company called Grenade Gloves out of California and they were doing these yearly films.

They kind of became these cult classics within snowboarding, the Grenade films, which were always very skit-based and a play on old kind of cult films, you know, with different plays on words. This film itself was called Night of the Living Shred, instead of Night of the Living Dead. So within it, of course, there are zombies and at the end of the film we were able to, I am able to, actually save a woman, the love interest, and basically lure in the zombies and blow them up in a van. We happened to have a hand grenade, which in this day and age is pretty taboo to have on hand. We got them in there, then we threw the grenade in the window and had the classic run away scene and it was actually pretty heavy because of the shrapnel. I think you see it in the film. The van looks like Hellraiser because of all these shrapnel elements that blow out. When you go frame by frame you see these like two meter pieces of fire just completely coming out of the van. So yeah, there is a whole another story involved but...

He’s also asked if you could tell a funny Dave Schiff story?

TR: A Dave Schiff story… (laughs all around. Travis briefly explains the legend of Dave Schiff). I witnessed him - you know In-N-Out Burger - I witnessed him consume a a 10 by 10. So basically ten buns, ten burgers, ten slices of cheese, and it was Animal Style, so it was just a ton of sauce in between it all. He ate it and....

Was he not sick after?

TR: Long story short, after that we went skating, and he didn’t make it to a bathroom and ended up having to run behind a train station...

Approaching the Grenade videos and the films that you currently make seem like completely different worlds. Are they more similar than one might expect and dare we ask if you ever crave getting back to that more simple approach to films?

TR: It’s a good question. Essentially, in respect to the reference of us back in the day, sure you go out with like one camera guy, a bunch of riders and you are very maneuverable - you are able to change your plan at the drop of a dime. This particular project is very much the antithesis of that, where we have a minimum ten-person crew, 500 pounds - bare minimum - of

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gear that we are taking out in the backcountry, and while it is a different beast, there are pros and cons. I mean, simply put, we are not making the core film project now.

It doesn’t mean I don’t long and lust and really appreciate those, because you get different things out of different projects. I think for us, it’s the art of actually trying to get the shot that we love. It’s not that we are just out there snowboarding and we are kind of inconvenienced by the fact that we have this massive camera crew. Everyone that is out there has a unified vision to create a beautiful, cinematic, artistic shot. It’s just a number of different variables. Now, yes, it is much slower, much more cumbersome and it is harder to be in the right place at the right time, but with that type of crew, it is actually pretty impressive what you can accomplish.

And we have witnessed that in the past three movies.

TR: Yeah, amen. With the level of production and even just being able to throw up a house-sized cheese wedge in the backcountry in the matter of an afternoon. So, you know, pros and cons.

What is one skate or snow flick that has gotten you hyped recently and why? Or surf, for that matter.

TR: I thought John John’s movie, View From a Blue Moon, was really beautiful, the way it was filmed and the level of artistry. It is also a love story for the beauty of mother nature and the natural world. Anything like View From a Blue Moon that brings out this appreciation and love for the natural environment and kind of the wanderlust to go find your own little piece of it. At the end of the day, I hope that people can take some things away from this film, one of which would be the motivation to go on an adventure.

Grab some friends and go have a real experience outside.

I think it is also going to inspire people to learn more about the natural environment in itself because you are approaching it from a different angle. Maybe not everyone, but some people will really benefit from that.

That’s the beauty of being able to share things that we are interested in, like Gerry’s work. We barely even scratched the surface in explaining what the fourth phase (of water) really is. I think the goal of the film was more to grab people’s attention and then point to areas and different places where you can find out further information. I think one of the first recommendations I have is to look up Gerry’s awesome TED talk. You can search it - TED talk Dr. Gerald Pollack, Fourth Phase of Water, as well as his book.

The book is written for the layman, which, thank you very much (laughs).

Dr: Science ought to be simple and I try to make it accessible. So much of science seems to be inaccessible and I think many scientists revel in standing up at the podium and presenting something that looks very complicated so that people understand that they are so smart and only they can understand it.

Final question: we’re filming Method Movie 2.0 next year, do you think you have what it takes?

Well, I think I have got what it takes but I haven’t gotten the invite! I am aware of Method 2.0. I think the whole snowboarding world is trembling in anticipation and I think it will just come down to if I can send a full out resume over in order to get an invite from you guys.

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irst off, let me say that I can’t believe I got to go on a trip with Lizard King’s brother!

This trip was mind-blowing! Being the token skater has its perks: I had Bryan and Austin to guide me off of anything they thought I was capable of (or almost capable of); I got to ride bottomless powder in an old-growth forest and take wide open turns on never ending, all-access terrain; I got to learn a lot of important things from our rad mountain guides, have a moonlit Aesmo session and cap every day off with a hot meal, a wood burning stove and jokes told with my buddies. The good vibes could not have been stronger.

This was more of a vacation for me than anything else. The closest relatable thing to a skate trip was the night we built a jump, fired up the generator and lit it up so I could try to learn backflips. (Although Bryan said it was more of a half cork?) Either way, it was super fun and it was nice not having to worry about cops when you’re filming something!

I have to say that I’m beyond grateful. I loved, felt, heard every turn. I listened to the wind in my ears going off of jumps and drops. I enjoyed cleaning the snow out of my goggles after rag-dolling for the tenth time. I fell in love with the freedom and the feel of the Aesmo and the créme brûlée was pretty damn good, too. I want to say a huge thank you to Poler, Nitro, Retallack Lodge, and especially, Bryan and Austin for the snow trip of a lifetime!

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* Bryan and Austin in the doubles suite

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* Mr. McCrank using them mileage rewards for the powder upgrade

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* Smith and Fox, checkin’ out!

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