04.30.2013
Arbor Snowboards regional team rider, Mike Gray threw down at Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark 16 last May and the footage was never released. In anticipation of Superpark 17 kicking off, we decided it was time for this lost footage to hit the internet. Get pumped, the Arbor Team is about to lay siege to Mount Bachelor, Oregon again this May for Superpark 17!
01.30.2013
Arbor Snowboards rider, Nick Visconti went on a the trip of a lifetime to South Africa to go snowboarding with friends Stevie Bell and Scott Stevens and the Snowboarder Magazine crew.. There they encountered amazing culture and more amazingly some decent snow to ride. Get into this one, it’s a great story.
12.21.2012
Arbor Snowboards rider, Scotty Vine lands on the cover of Snowboarder Magazine’s January 2012 issue. Congratulations Scotty!
Re-watch Arbor’s Superpark 13 video below.
Arbor Snowboards: The Superpark Video from Arbor Collective on Vimeo.
10.21.2012
“Persevering through hard times shows courage and motivation to achieve goals, produces humility and can result in great accomplishments. The 2011/12 winter was the most difficult test of my life in snowboarding. I worked with many talented people over the course of the season who directly or indirectly affected the outcome of this video part. I proudly present this video as a thank you to those who made it possible. It has been 14 years since I started snowboarding and I’m grateful to be able to say that it’s still my passion and I still love snowboarding.”
SCOTTY VINE’S FULL PART 2 FROM 2012 —––>>>
Nobody can make a video part alone. Here is a list of friends (in no particular order) who I would like to thank for helping me in the ridiculous process that became this video: Joe Bosler, Jordan Ingmire, Cory Rain, Nate Escalona, Pat Bridges, T-Bird, Ryan “Huggy” Hughes, Kyle Beckman, Chris Wellhausen, Darcy Bacha, Joel Muzzy, Kevin Westenbarger, Sean Sullivan, Parker Duke, Tyler Malay, Landon Taylor, Brad Farmer, Matt Patti, Bob Carlson, Kenny Hill, Matt Devino, Eli Weiner, Nate Shute, Gary Milton, Ryan McLaughlin, Nick Brewer, Justin Gunson, Gary Tyler McLeod, John Cavan, Tanner Pendelton, Dan Weigel, Steven Woolworth, Erik Leon, Ian Sams, Ray Takahashi, Kara Fliestra, Maddison Ellsworth, Yale Cousino, Tim Humphrys, Greg Boyd, Jaeger Bailey, Mitch Richmond, Hans Jenson, Dale Rehgerg, Transworld Magazine, Snowboarder Magazine, Boreal park staff, Buttermilk park staff, Mt. Bachelor park staff, Steven’s Pass, and my parents Misty and Vincent Vine.
08.15.2012
For centuries ivory elephant tusks have been coveted and used due to the myth of their supernatural powers, however contrary to popular belief they do not signal wifi well. Let down by whimsical hope in global wireless internet, I had to cut ties with virtual reality and live fully consumed in old man winters gift to Snowboarder Magazine’s “Snowboard Safari”- Africa’s hundred year storm. Local legend says that the mountain kingdom of Lesotho has only received natural snow twenty times in the past century, and yet during our quest to surf the earth it received an unexpected 3 feet of snow. This of course was an unbelievable blessing, but came with ramifications. The entire country, kingdom, was shut down due to lack of resources and infrastructure to handle the blizzard. This left our crew stranded in the heart of South Africa, one hundred and eighty kilometers inland of any plowed roads with nothing but endless mountains and powder to blissfully explore; and that we did.
CHECK OUT THE FULL PHOTO GALLERY BELOW
I have to be honest in admitting that our snowboard safari had little idea of what to expect in the lost continent, but with the creativity of industry innovators Stevie Bell, Scott Stevens, Ryan Hughes, John Cavan, Joel Parker, Janssen Powers and I, Africa’s abundant resource of snow was pillaged and plundered. The snow was very similar to Northern California’s “sierra cement” which gave us the artistic hand to sculpt features by cat, snow machine and hand. But what the blanket of snow truly gifted us was the ability to venture deeper into the plateaued mountains while slashing and bashing the once barren terrain. Although we did not expect this snow storm, we maximized it’s potential.
Now safely back home in the heat of The United States summer, accessible to internet again, I can only write words that hold but a flame next to indescribable experience of snowboarding in Africa. But until our adventures are published with the fruit of our pleasurable labor, know that in all ways Snowboarder Magazine’s “Snowboard Safari” fashioned a modern mystic tale that will be pasted down from generation to generation as shred legend.
Take Risk,
Nick Visconti
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