SNOWBOARDER Magazine’s August 2011 issue is on newsstands now. Go to your local snowboard shop, bookstore, or download a copy today from Zinio.

SNOWBOARDER is available in a digital format. If you can’t find a physical copy, you can still see it all online.

You never forget your first time, especially when it involves a Phantom camera and a Fish. Travis Rice, Nicolas Müller, and Iouri Podlatchikov join SNOWBOARDER Editor Pat “the eYe” Bridges as they experience 270,000 acres of dry pow and wet birds in the BC interior.

In this feature, SNOWBOARDER aims to pay homage to those that sowed the seeds of planting, and the riders who have harvested the groundwork laid by that crop to take it to new heights.

Travis Rice, The Frends, Sébastien Toutant, Eric Willett, Bode Merrill, and Mark McMorris head to Aspen for a late-season shoot for T. Rice and Curt Morgan’s new cinematic epic, The Art of Flight.

Minnesota is the new Québec. Or Salt Lake. Or Buffalo. Well, it’s the new hotspot, okay? Hundreds of riders are flocking to the Twin Cities and hometown heroes are staying put through passing winters to log footage for their respective film projects, which has made Minnesota a modern-day Midwest Mecca.

Although it’s still 2011, the product appearing on the racks of your local retail snowboarding goods provider are billed as the latest 2012 gear. This means that anyone wanting to own a piece of the future just needs to head into a snowboard shop, pick out some choice wares, and fork over some hard-earned cash at the counter. Of course, just because something is cutting-edge doesn’t mean it’s the ideal product for everyone. Here is a primer to some of the primo products appearing on shelves this season to help ensure that despite what doomsayers are saying, your 2012 kit won’t end up being a total disaster.

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