As children we made forts and shacks and tarp tepees. They were an extension of one’s wonder and imagination, a claim to a place and an area-a dream world. As snowboarders, our true home is in the mountains. It’s in the millions of hexagonal snow crystals and the wind drifts where they collect. It’s in…

Geoff “Gully” Gulevich mills around the basement of his parent’s house in North Vancouver, packing for a long haul. Crankworx France, a Rocky Mountain trip, the GoPro Dirt Diaries shoot, a shot at the very first X Games Mountain Bike Slopestyle—a lot of things to stuff into only a couple bags. As one of the most capable riders in mountain…

I’ve never met Shawn O’Keefe, but we have an odd connection. He created a caricature of me as “The Dude” in a bathrobe for a how-to column in TransWorld SNOWboarding magazine. Over the years I guess I taught him about random and amusing snowboarding tips. He always spit back with comical cartoon drawings to match.…

You can buy anything in this world but time. Breast milk by mail, real estate on the moon, government, a goddamn Learjet or tiger penis soup. But time cannot be packaged and sold; only used. Life is time, and time is life—a constant, swirling exchange where we’re only given a finite share. Craig Bierly put…