FLOW SNOWBOARDING’S TIM HUMPHREYS TALKS EQUIPMENT… from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

BIANCOGRAT – Piz Bianco 3995m

WORDS AND PICS BY MAX ZIPSER

2:30 a.m the next day we woke up and skinned again up to the ridge close to where Dani and I had to turn round the last time. The snow in this mixed terrain was much better settled and we climbed fast with some “Tibloc” fixations through the rocks. On the top we had to rappel to finally reach the Biancograt, which leads for another 500 vertical metres to the summit of Piz Bianco (3995m). This hike on that spine is for sure something special and quite exposed all the way. About 1000m + drop to both sides - rocky and steep.

Exhausted but knowing the reason for our hike just starts now, I droped into the sunny side of the spine. All the snow below my edge went down to the glacier and we could hear it like an avalanche passing the serac. Attention was required, but as soon I got used to the riding it turned to be super fun riding that insane spine…

A great adventure, a wunderfull mountain and positive vibes will stay in my mind!

MORE ON MAX HERE:  http://maxzipser.blogspot.com/

Shin Biyajima in the Jackson Backcountry from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

Flow International Team Rider from Japan, Shin Biyajima made a stop in “Wydaho” (the boarder of Wyoming & Idaho) to check out the backcountry scene & Ryan Van Lanen filmed a few shots.
enjoy…
Flow Snowboarding

FLOW TAILGATE ALASKA 2013 EDIT from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

Flow Tailgate Alaska 2013 -Daily Edit With Mike Basich… Day 1 from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

FLOW TAILGATE ALASKA MARCH 29 – APRIL 7, 2013 from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

Preston presents Brandon Reis with the best overall rider award.

Last week was a big event for our Dutch riders at the Dutch championships in Laax.

They where all there riding 3 events:

-Big Air on Tuesday

-Halfpipe on Thursday

-Slopestyle on Friday

There where 3 age category’s:

-Joey van de Noort and Frits Rijpers competed in the Under 13

-Ziggey van Bouwhorst and Erik Bastiaansen where competing in the under 16

-Jazzley van Bouwhorst was competing in the under 19

And they all won some prizes, on the big air Joey and Ziggey where crowned Dutch champion, while Erik grabbed 2^nd place behind Ziggey. Frits and Jazzley both grabbed a bronze medal. All and all a great start for our riders!!!

Next day halfpipe, this is the hardest event for the Dutch kids because there is no way to practice in Holland. This did not stop the boys, they all performed at their very best and this brought them some great results. For the second day in a row Ziggey became Dutch champion and Erik finished in 2^nd place behind him again. Joey grabbed a Bronze medal in his Category.

The Final day Slopestyle, unfortunately Frits had gotten a serious case off the flew but he had to compete. Well done Fristi!!! Joey grabbed his second titel with a clean run, in the under 16 category Erik, after finishing 2^nd twice, finally beat Ziggey (2^nd) grabbing his first Dutch titel. Jazzley beiing one of the youngest kids in his category did an awesome job grabbing his second bronze medal.

Meanwhile our Belgian Youth riders where at Montafon riding a Chill and Destroy contest, they both did great Stef Vandeweyer taking home 3^rd place and Jordy Keesmeekers beiing the winner

STORY WRITTEN BY STEVEN DAEMEN

World snowboarding champion... Sarka Pancochova

Sarka Pancochova (CZE) takes World Snowboard Tour Overall and Slopestyle trophies home.

’’I have been working really hard this season, training and competing, it’s the best reward to be the World’s top woman overall snowboarder, then all the hard work pays off!’’
Sarka showed consistency throughout her season in both Slopestyle and Halfpipe, coming second at the X Games Slopestyle contest in Aspen. Though not many female riders compete in both Slopestyle and Halfpipe regularly, Sarka did beat competitors like second placed Enni Rukajärvi (FIN), third placed Silvia Mittermüller (GER) and last year’s Champion Cilka Sadar (SLO), who came in fourth this year.

Just about anyone who has ever lived in an over-cluttered home has at some point declared that one day they’ll ditch it all and live simply. Mike Basich did it.

Mr. Basich, a 40-year-old pro snowboarder, has spent the past several years building his dream home near Lake Tahoe. About 10 miles outside Truckee, Calif., the house sits 3 miles beyond a quiet road that has a few mailboxes but not much else. In the winter, it can only be accessed by a snowmobile, snowcat or other kind of tracked vehicle.

“I’ve eliminated a lot of stuff by choosing to have a small place and a big yard,” says Mr. Basich, who has scraggly brown hair and usually needs a shave. The house is about 25% glass and lacks curtains, so he gets up with the sun and goes to sleep with the stars. In between, his typical activities include snowboarding on an adjacent hill or hiking with his Siberian husky, Summit.

The electricity comes from a solar panel on his porch. The running water comes from snowmelt. All of the heat—for warmth, for the soapstone oven, for the hot tub—is generated by wood fires.

Room and Snowboard

Mike Basich, a 40-year-old pro snowboarder, has spent the past several years building his dream home near Lake Tahoe.

Inside the house, there aren’t any rooms or closets. The inside and outside walls are made of granite stones that form the house’s shell, and the sleeping area is a small loft that sits only a few feet below the ceiling. A range of household items, from baked beans to bear spray, are in open view.

His TV is rarely on and doesn’t get reception or cable. On a recent evening, the lone bookshelf had a small collection of snowboard magazines along with a book titled “Tiny Homes.” Mr. Basich’s indulgences include a hot tub on the porch along with a ski lift that, when finished, will rise 600 feet up a nearby hill.Building is another activity that takes up a good deal of Mr. Basich’s time. Over the past decade, he says, he bought and sold a half-dozen rental and investment properties, all of which he extensively renovated. He designed the pentagon-shaped house himself, and has lived on the property—in a tent, under tarps—through various stages of completion. He and friends collected the granite from the surrounding property. He milled all the wood himself, most of it from a combination of pine and Douglas-fir trees on his land.

From the deer-antler doorknobs to the oak coffee table inlaid with petrified mammoth bone, nearly everything in the house comes with a story about Mr. Basich’s labors. Asked if there was anything in the house he didn’t build, Mr. Basich responded deadpan, “My computer.”

Mr. Basich grew up in Fair Oaks, Calif., near Sacramento, and became a professional snowboarder in 1991. He competed until 2000 but quit to focus on backcountry riding. Today, sponsors like Flow Snowboards and GoPro pay him to travel the world taking self-portraits of his snowboarding that they use to promote their products.

His house and land, which he calls “Area 241,” after a small clothing company he owns, are a part of that image. He has an Area 241 iPhone application with regular updates of his doings. Also, for $2,500 a day, he rents out the property for private parties and commercial shoots (Mountain Dew was a recent client). He says the fees cover his mortgage and then some.

Back when he was a contest professional, Mr. Basich bought a five-bedroom home on a Salt Lake City cul-de-sac. Over time, he started to hate the abundance of space, along with the time and money it took to maintain it. In 2002, after his move to backcountry snowboarding, he sold it to live in his van.

In 2004, a real-estate-agent friend tipped off Mr. Basich to 40 undeveloped acres that were up for sale. He fell in love right away and paid $225,000 for the land and has since put about $20,000—plus five years of labor—into building the house. Bret Churchman, an associate broker with Coldwell Banker in Truckee, says similar lots are on the market for between $500,000 and $1 million, depending on how much infrastructure they have and whether or not they can be divided into smaller parcels.

Mr. Basich, who lives alone, travels about half the year and maintains a small apartment in Colfax, about 40 minutes away. He notes that while it might seem limiting to live in a small house with few appliances, the lack of choice is freeing. This past Christmas Eve, Mr. Basich and his girlfriend made dinner by cooking duck, potatoes, turnips, butter, spices and wine in a pot over the fire.

One of Mr. Basich’s complaints is that people don’t always respect his privacy. He says a friend recently told him that he and some buddies went to the house and had beers on the porch. The friend said it was too bad Mr. Basich wasn’t home.

Write to Conor Dougherty at conor.dougherty@wsj.com

ALL PICS BY Jason Henry for The Wall Street Journal

READ THE FULL STORY HERE:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323951904578292291893355224.html

FEBedit 2013-Freddy & Lydia Silber from Icebox Snowboarding on Vimeo.

Just look for this pic on our facebook wall and comment. Best comment wins it this Friday!!!!

Jed, Drayden Gardner and some friends went out to the East Coast to Pennsylvania for the Rev Tour and documented some of it.

Look out Mike Basich! These kids are gonna out build you and Area-241 one day!!

Scotty Lago Takes 3rd at the EU Open

8th of February 2013

pic thanks to snowboardermag.com

Last week while most of us Flow employees were all neck deep in trade show meetings, Scotty Lago took 2nd place with one of his best runs in his snowboarding life out in Park City, Utah.

THIS PAST WEEKEND DRAYDEN TOOK 2ND PLACE UP AT BOREAL FOR THE VOLCOM PBRJ

Flow Microns at the Boreal Peanut Butter Rail Jam – Drayden Gardner from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

Drayden at Boreal thanks to Tim Humphreys

KEEGAN TOOK 1ST AT THE NORTHERN VERMONT USASA SERIES AT SUGAR BUSH

CHRIS DEPAULA TOOK 2ND AT THE X-GAMES QUALIFIER AT LOON & 5TH SATURDAY IN VT

THEN IN MINNESOTA LOC, BENNY MILAM TOOK 1ST PLACE IN THE X-GAMES RAIL JAM QUALIFIER @ WILD MOUNTAIN

Lydia Silber took 1st place in her age division on New Years Eve up at Copper in Colorado

Flows Freddy Silber took 3rd and Chris Corning NS & Flow Rider took 1st

And new Flow Team Member from Japan Kotaro Kamimura took 1st place and a ticket to the X-Games Rail Jam

Kotaro has his own Fan Club

ALL PICS THANKS TO:   http://www.facebook.com/rockymtnseries

Nice job on the editing work Dray!

Brandon Schroeder and Zack Foster lapping it up at the High… Mountain High that is

Happy Holidays from the Flow Snowboarding Family!

Dale Rehberg at the Flow World Sales Meeting, Oberstdorf, Germany

Flow Snowboarding would like to Welcome Big Mountain shredder Iris Lazzareschi to the Flow Team.  Here’s what Iris had to say:

Nial Romanek in “Mind the Video Man” from Flow Snowboarding

Celia + Sarka – Adventure Time

Celia + Sarka – Adventure Time from Flow Snowboarding

GoPro Snowboarding Flow’s Tim Humphreys 2012 Handheld Self Filming Hero 2

SARKA TAKES FOURTH AT DEW TOUR SLOPE

RESULTS:

1. Jamie Anderson
2. Spencer O’Brien
3. Enni Rukajärvi
4. SARKA PANCOCHOVA
5. Silvia Mittermueller
6. Kjersti Østgaard Buaas

SARKA & LAGO QUALIFY FOR DEW TOUR

Sarka Pancochova right after she qualified...

Scotty Lago right before he dropped in for his 1st place run

Check out the Pipe highlights…

SARKA & HER LITTLE iON

Setting Up Flow Hybrid Powercapstraps

Setting Up Flow Hybrid Powercapstraps from Flow Snowboarding on.

Flow Snowboarding has several vids on how to set up your Flow Bindings & more! Check them out here:
https://vimeo.com/channels/425401

Flow Distilled

Flow Distilled from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

Flow Team Assassins Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Scot Brown, Brandon Reis & Nial Romanek each had respectable parts in a few different videos for the 2012-2013 season. In this edit we took all four of their parts and rolled them up into one joint. So sit back and take in all the smoke, HA!

Flow Team Shoot November 2012 from Flow Snowboarding on Vimeo.

SNOWBOARD-MAG teamed up with Flow Tailgate Alaska and the Alaskan Brewing CO. to give away the shred trip of a lifetime. From now until February 28, upload your best backcountry (or sidecountry) edit to our “Ticket To Tailgate” vimeo group and $5,000 could be yours for a trip for two to Flow’s Tailgate Alaska.

How To Enter:

1. Upload a minute long video of you ripping the backcountry or sidecountry and upload it to vimeo. Footage must have been shot in 2012/2013 – let’s keep it relavent here…

2. Title your video “Snowboard Magazine’s Ticket to Tailgate: (Your Name Here)” along with a description of your video including rider and filmer names.

3. Join Snowboard Magazine’s vimeo group “Ticket To Tailgate” and add your video to the mix.

4. Share your video with your freinds to score (facebook) likes.

Judging:

1. A panel of judges will pick the winner based on overall impression and the total number of likes your video received.

2. Each person (rider/filmer) must be 21 years of age or older in order to be eligible to win.

Prizes:

1. One team will win $5,000 toward a trip for two to Flow Tailgate Alaska.

2. The winning team will also score a brand new kit from Flow Snowboards.

3. Win a year’s supply of product from Clif Bar for the most remote entry.