Climate change and mounting environmental degradation poses an existential threat to life as we know it. We are in a period of...

In the mid ’80s, Rob Dow got in trouble with the law. His mother sent him from their home in Richmond, Vancouver...

Aaaand we’re back! For our 11th year! The cockroach of snowboard magazines keeps getting stronger. BEN POECHMAN, Whistler, BC. [O] Ben Girardi...

​I don’t know if everyone feels the same about the end of the winter, but I can say that for my friends...

By Rob Lemay | Photos [o] Ben Girardi Andrew Burns. That name goes hand in hand within Canadian snowboarding. It’s one that...

By William Fraser TJ Schneider, like any good Red Deer Albertan, grew up a hockey player who didn’t care about snowboarding at...

WORDS & PHOTOS ROB LEMAY | VIDEO COURTESY OF SNOWBOY PRODUCTIONS The Holy Bowly is an event unlike any other in snowboarding....

You first step on a board not knowing what will happen, where it will take you, and how it will develop you....

BY ROB LEMAY AGE: 21 BORN: Mission, BC CURRENTLY: Whistler, BC How’s your season going this year? What have you been getting...

Moments after the U•S•Open Slopestyle hardware had been handed out and while the podium was still sobering up from its champagne shower....

Spencer Whiting, aka Spenny, aka Gimbal God. The man behind a million successful straight air’s has been spending time in Whisler filming...

Whistler was blessed with another Oakley Week as the 4th annual affair brought Prizm-like clarity to a festival-esque week of boarding, bonding,...

Wooowee! The first west coast stop of the 2019 Vans Hi-Standard rocked the Rockies at Mt. Norquay this past weekend. The good...

Snowboard filming changed a lot in the mid-90s when snowmobiles opened up the backcountry to us. The limitations of the sleds and...

By William Fraser | [o] Photos by Joseph Roby China has the potential to be a serious player in snowboarding’s future. It’s...

This past Saturday Blue Mountain Resort kicked off the start of the contest season in Ontario with the 10th anniversary of Frozen Rail...

The snowboard community has a stronger foundation because of Flynn Seddon. There’s more character, passion, and heart thanks to him. He’s been...

According to major scientist studies, the last woolly mammoths (Mammuthus Primigenius) disappeared a couple thousand years ago, due to climate and to...

NOT JUST A CLEVER NAME For those who don’t know, let’s quickly get you up to speed. The Powder Highway connects eight...

Hot on the heels of the 11th edition of the iF3 Festival in Montreal, iF3 is making its return to Whistler on November 9th...

Banff has been our backyard since the day we were born. But JJ and I did not appreciate it for what it...

  Craig McMorris is no stranger to the camera. He’s been filming video parts for years and he’s a household name to...

For the third year in a row, The North Face is proud to partner with Whistler Blackcomb and celebrate the return of winter. Come...

COVER | Chris Rasman [o] Ben Girardi Keeping with the less is more theme of our first cover of the season we present Chris...

FRANK BOURGEOIS, Method, Quebec City, QC. [o] Joseph Roby MARK TREMBLAY, Frontside 360, Whistler, BC. [o] Erin Hogue MARIA THOMPSON, Boardslide to...

  We’re turning 10! Who would have thunk it? Our first issue of the season is filled with celebrating a decade of...

By William Fraser During an 18-year-long career, Natasza Zurek shook the snowboard scene. With a quick Google search you can unveil multipage...

Chris Witwicki’s roots in snowboarding are thicker than his coke bottle glasses. As a coach for the Canadian National Slopestyle Team, he...

By William Fraser Well, folks, I’m happy to present to you a man with a Colgate smile, Stevie Bell! Cuz really, where...

It was a heavy Friday morning hearing about the tragic and deeply saddening news of Dillon Ojo’s accidental passing. Dillon’s infectious positivity...

INTERVIEW BY EVAN RISSI  Dillon, let’s talk about one of your favourite things in life: pizza. How and why did this happen?...

…As Told to King Snow Magazine We were in Utah, in the High Uintas mountains. It was January 11, 2017. It was...

Age | 22 Place | Whistler, BC Sponsors | DOPE INDUSTRIES, SANDBOX, SALMON ARMS, FIX, SPY Where did you grow up and...

GEOFF BROWN, Backside 1080, Whistler, BC. [o] Guy Fattal LOUIS-FÉLIX PARADIS, Backside 50-50, Hokkaido, Japan. [o] Oli Gagnon  CRAIG MCMORRIS, Switch Boardslide,...

Lucky number seven for the ECS semi secret super sensational Invitational went down this past Saturday May 26th. The momentum keeps rolling...

Why do we snowboard? We should all be able to agree that we’re out here for a good time. Whether for you...

Skyhawk in the Wind As told to King Snow… At the end of last season, I kind of overshot a stepdown in...

Winter in Quebec has been good and the clips have been even better. The streets are dry and now it’s time for...

Over thousands of years of evolutionary history, homosapiens have evolved to carry many different things in many different ways. They can be...

Whistler Valley Snowboard Club @whistervalley Twenty years ago, Whistler Valley Snowboard Club was one of the first of its kind. Today, WVSC...

December 14, 2017, and Craig McMorris is spending his 26th birthday with friend Anto Chamberland to give us the insider scoop on...

Once again it was OAKLEY Week in Whistler and we were invited to tag along for some Heli boarding and a one-day...

Age | 15 Place | Pemberton, BC Sponsors | Volcom, Vans, Oakley, NOW, Capita, The Circle, Whistler Blackcomb Damn, look at that...

[o] Priscilla Cannon Interview by Stephanie Lake The hype is real when it comes to Robin Van Gyn. She is a straight...

John Leslie was recently named to the 2018 Paralympic Snowboard Team. He’s an Ontario native that has been training out of Whistler,...

THE OLYMPIC SHAKEDOWN “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?” They’re back, baby! Four years ago we watched the introduction of Slopestyle with a pessimistic...

Was this the best thing to happen to snowboarding at the Olympics? Johnny Lyall, Indy Bomb from the cheap seats right into...

Welcome to the future. The Candian NextGen Slopestyle Team is pushing the potential of kids on the come up. Josh Reeves, Sean...

Snowboarding pics from the mountains and the streets. Best in show from issue 9.2 on shelves and in stores now. 9.2 ISSUE PREVIEW...

Alexis grew up snowboarding under Je Page’s wing, which allowed him to be around some of Quebec’s all-time greatest snowboarders, and the...

We’ve seen the future! We came, we saw, we dried out in the mile high city. Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show kicked...

In the east corner of North Vancouver, we have little Mount Seymour, weighing in with three chairlifts and just 330 metres of...

Whistler got some snow this week. A lot of snow. 157cms in the last week. These photos & video were shot together...

“So, it started probably eight months before the winter. I was at the fire station having dinner with the boys, like we...

When you think of a kid that went to a snowboard academy, you might have the mental image of somebody vigorously training...

All things must end. This last issue bookends our 9th volume preaching the good word of the board. Winter is here and...

“Terabithia Gap” Last season, while shooting for The Pepper Movie, we were in Utah filming on this super-classic springtime hip. As we...

Nic is one of the newer additions to The Bruners crew, and if you’ve seen any of his previous parts, it’s obvious...

“Saw this spot on our first day in Germany, across the street from the McDonald’s we were having lunch at. The build...

As told to King Snow… I don’t want this to come up weird but… I don’t fall that much. But when I...

Words, Photos and Video by Rob Lemay    Manitoba isn’t a place that you think of for snowboarding. It’s flat and cold,...

By William Fraser Like most teenagers boarding during the early 2000s, I thought Simon Chamberlain was the man. I remember the first...

We first heard of Chris through snowboarding on the East Coast and through mutual friends. At the time, he was making videos...

December, 12th 2017 – This past Sunday church was in session up at Mt. Seymour. It was more of a spring day...

Sam Taxwood hit our cover with a picture perfect Frontside 540 while filming for the new Vans Snow video, Landline. [o] Aaron...

Words by William Fraser | Photos by Sean Marko Matt Bryson, one of Oil Country’s camera aficionados, and I sat down to...

Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski, Québec. Home to only a 1,000 people and one of the most legit snowboard factories on the planet. Utopie Snowboard MFG...

[o] Chris Witwicki Age | 18 | Place | Quebec City | Sponsors | Rome, O’Neill, Vans, Dragon, Empire Do you go by Frank...

Pissed As told to King Snow… Two thousand sixteen Rat Race at Mt. Hood—After the race, there’s always a cook-out, bonfire, and...

By William Fraser @whilebeingwilliam If you’ve recently purchased/ adopted a K9 from the local animal shelter, you might not be sure what...

This past weekend, in front of an excited crowd of ski and snowboard enthusiasts, the 2017 iF3 Movie Awards took place at...

Oh, we’re in it now. Snow is hitting mountains. Opening days are less than a month away and we’re taking this year’s...

Snowboarding pics from the mountains and the streets. Best in show from issue 9.1 on shelves and in stores now. 9.1 ISSUE PREVIEW

The Stomping Grounds camp in Saas Fee. Two weeks of epic weather, perfect jumps all in the heart of the beautiful Swiss...

If there’s an ever an IPO on Sean Pettit—buy in. Everything he touches turns to gold. Trust me. The dude rolls with...

We ventured to the Blackcomb Glacier and talked with strangers to get the good word on gear, brands, riders and crews. This is...

By Rob Lemay You just came back from California recently. How was Bear Mtn? It was fun, but I forgot my knee...

We checked in with Dakine’s Director of Digital Marketing, Colleen Quigley, to talk a little more in depth about the recently launched...

Mamma Mia, here we go again! Another winter rolls in as we roll out our first issue of the 17/18 season. It’s...

10 Hours In Revelstoke In my experience, there are few things in life I refer to as “BANGER. The house Raman at...

We caught up quick with Finn Westbury to talk, Twist. The new vid is premiering this Friday, August 25th in Calgary. Click...

These dudes are better than you: They’re pros, they’re superior—they’re goddamn champions. Their meals are tastier, their girls are fitter, they shred...

The Wkndrs. The inclusive good times clique from Whistler has been going in this summer. Despite the Chicken Little squawk about the...

Here’s the one-two punch that caps many a camping night: 1. A raging fire contained within a ring of small rocks. 2....

Fire dancing on the glacier. The Blackcomb glacier public park (aka: Camp Backflip) gets a beatdown from the local rail wizards.

Dinosaurs Will Die digging in at Holy Bowly 2017. Edit by Garrett Read. Featuring: Kevin Hanson, Milo Malkoski, Tim Sullivan, Blake Geis,...

Making it as a snowboard photographer has always been tough. Borderline impossible. Everyone thinks they’re a photographer these days. And there is...

  It happened again. The “Suck My Sixth” Annual ECS Quarter Pipe Invitational. As always, it was held at the peak of...

Cell phones weren’t really around In the early ’90s, let alone ones with cameras and video capabilities. There was no internet available...