It has been a hectic couple of months getting Jones Snowboards off the ground. Snowboarding has remained my main priority and I have been getting plenty of time on snow but it is the five AM phone calls with the factory in Switzerland before riding to total chaos when I return home after riding that [...]
Posts by Jeremy Jones
High Sierra Splitboard Mission
McConkeys
January 21st – Today I was brought to tears. I am not sure if they were tears of joy or sadness but I was catching my breath at the bottom of a line when an avalanche of emotion came out of nowhere and knocked me off my feet.
The line that did this to me is [...]
Backcountry Basics, Five Red Flags
I think of December as Avalanche safety month and I will try and drop some backcountry basics here on the site and explain some of the tools I use daily in assessing snow safety. Learning how to read the mountains is a never-ending quest. You will never know it all but you owe [...]
Deeper. Antarctica Trophy Line
Today was a fantasy. I hopped in the zodiak to scope terrain and from that point on it was sensory over load. On One side of the bay was a mountain called “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” On the other side one of the most outrages mountains scape’s I have ever seen towered over [...]
Deeper. Day 1 Antarctica
Sixty two hours of rolling and rocking threw the Drake Passage are behind us and off the bow of the ship I see the first sign of land. It is amazing to think that one of earths seven continents did not feel the footsteps of humans until the 1820’s. Imagine something the size of North [...]