Articles by mountaindewgirl

The World Championships of Snowskating went down on April 20, 2024 at Solheisen in Hemsedal, Norway. We had 40 competitors representing 8 countries: Norway, Sweden, Germany, Lichtenstein, El Salvador, USA, Canada, and South Africa. It was a fun family-oriented event where 30 of the skaters...

Sunday Morning Rain Skating Session: This article is brought to you by the Freeride Flyer Magazine. You can order the full-print 80-page "Tepe and Tacos 2022" edition magazine here: https://www.blurb.com/b/11226582-free-ride-flyer-tepe-2022 The Free Ride Flyer’s sole mission is to celebrate...

A new snowskate company, Opala Snurf Club, has just appeared out of thin air and become quite the topic of speculation among the snowskating circles. Never one to miss a beat, @OregonDead , our buddy Eric, and I headed down to Bend, Oregon for a gear test. Specs: The Opala Snurf Club 125...

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1022715/2021-11-3-1-49-18-mp4 Mecca Ditch is a banked slalom skateboarding event in the Las Vegas desert. It is called Mecca Ditch because the big hike up to it can be likened to a pilgrimage. Also, there is a Ka’aba-like structure behind it...

I first heard about Maryhill in the parking lot of Tipsy's, a liquor store perched on top of a Colorado foothill. I was catching a thrill and a buzz after work, bombing down the commuter bikeway, when I bumped into this kid Spencer on an ultramarathon longboard setup. He'd just come back from...

How to Sandskate on a Snowskate OR How to Ski on Sand Larilinesign With a fistful of black graphite wax and a whole lotta rubbing, you can convert your snowskate, skis, or snowboard into a rippin’ sweet sandskate, sandskis, or sandboard...

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1003473/The-A-Bowl-tionator-mp4 From the megamind and megaplow of The Rantmaster himself, @theabortionator brings us The A-BOWL-tionator: An epic spring flow park rooted in his love for vert skating. One day we were shooting the breeze over at the...

Snowskates and snowboards were invented around the same time, but snowskating has a smaller and wackier market. Why? Because snowskaters love building their own ultra-specific mutant boards. Thus, snowskates come in a variety of sizes and shapes: On your snowskate, the length and shape...

The emotion of expanding against gravity while you're shredding is a LOVE reaction! The same LOVE of flying freely over the snow is the same LOVE of holding your partner or chanting a psalm! Riding with passion manifests LOVE into the world! I'm so thrilled about this revalation, that I'm...

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/987961/2021-1-7-15-57-38-mp4 A snow phenomenon called The Pineapple Express collided with an Alaskan Polar storm right above Mt Hood on New Years Day 2021, so @OregonDead and I tracked that sucker to Timberline and had one hell of a Newschoolers...

A snow phenomenon called The Pineapple Express collided with an Alaskan Polar storm right above Mt Hood on New Years Day 2021, so @oregondead and I tracked that sucker to Timberline and had one hell of a Newschoolers meetup! Here is a photo from the airplane of the storm just starting to...