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Burton US Open Coming Soon!

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Shaun White Vail, CO
Photo: Burton –
Gabe Heureux

What are you doing March 5-10? Hopefully your plans include the Burton US Open, my favorite event of the season.

This year is the 36th Burton US Open, the longest running competitive snowboard event, and following the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics it should be a pretty awesome show.

Here’s the event schedule, hit the Read More button to see the full press release from Burton. You can also download the 2018 Burton US Open App here: https://www.burton.com/blogs/the-burton-blog/its-time-download-2018-burton-usopen-app/

2018 Burton U.S. Open Competition Schedule:
Tuesday, March 6th: Halfpipe Junior Jam
Wednesday, March 7th: Men’s and Women’s Slopestyle Semi-Finals
Thursday, March 8th: Men’s and Women’s Halfpipe Semi-Finals
Friday, March 9th: Men’s and Women’s Slopestyle Finals
Saturday, March 10th: Men’s and Women’s Halfpipe Finals

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SBG: Where we’ve been, where we’re at, where we are going

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This is the original business card we hit the road with in 1999

Originally posted on SnowboarderGuide.com

I started SBG with two good friends in the fall of 1998 as we prepared to hit the road on a snowboard roadtrip. It’s been more than a decade since I started cobbling together bits of code to make a website that would catalog our trip as we traveled from Alaska into Canada and then down through Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado during what was to be one of the best seasons on record.Read More »SBG: Where we’ve been, where we’re at, where we are going

First Day On Snow 11/1 | Day 6 of 30 Days on the Road

Originally posted on SnowboarderGuide.com

November 1st, 2009 – Finally, a day on snow! I hit up Loveland with Steamboat friends Dylan, Carly, Doug, and Shay from shayboarder.com. The sky was a deep blue, the sun was out, and the snow was pretty fun. Loveland had two lifts running and a couple of “white ribbons of death” to choose from. Read More »First Day On Snow 11/1 | Day 6 of 30 Days on the Road