Jeremy Jones

The Flagship Recieves a “Platinum Pick” from Snowboard Magazine

Jeremy Jones — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:28:31 +0000

PRESS RELEASE:

Snowboard Magazine awards Jones Snowboards, The Flagship, a Platinum Pick for excellence in design.

“If you were going to trust anybody to design snowboarding’s premier big mountain snowboard, Jeremy Jones would be the wise pick. The Flagship is snowboarding’s response to the most critical riding on the planet. Using Magna-Traction, directional rocker and camber under foot, this board is more of a weapon than anything else. It’s a weapon that’s going to keep you alive when others are bound to fail. Designed with a longer-radius sidecut and shortened running length, the Flagship comes without a speed limit yet still manhandles turns in tight situations.

If you like getting booted off the local ski hill for going too fast or better yet, riding lines nowhere near a lift, this board is it.”

-Nate Deschenes, SNOWBOARD MAGAZINE.

Here’s a good look at the three bump, “Mellow” Magna-Traction. It is three drawn out bumps, one bump between the feet and one at each foot. It makes for a subtle but effective edge bite that you will only feel when the snow gets really hard and you are about to fall on your ass.

All the graphics are burned into the wood. There is not a drop of ink on this snowboard.

The Flagship will be available in five sizes: 158, 161, 163W, 164, 168W.

Get the full low down here.

All product shots taken by Greg Martin

Summer Shredding with Ralph Backstrom

RalphBackstrom — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:47:11 +0000

Is it really almost September already? What happened to the summer? Here’s a little look back on my own summer…

Squaw shredding after it closed in the middle of May. Some of the best conditions Squaw had all season!

Easter Sierra with Jeremy for the final Deeper mission of the season in late May. Extremely sick snow, deep corn in some places, full on pow in others. The Solution was on fire!

Some Squaw shredding in mid June gave me some dirty corn that was still really fun.

Tioga Pass for some sun-cup shredding in late June. The first few hundred feet of cups was pretty fun, but after a thousand feet or so of them, I was beat!

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Southern Hemi action in New Zealand for the World Heli Challenge. A big, wet, warm storm came through and put a nice white ice layer down, making conditions extremely less than desirable for a competition. It’s a good thing there’s so much else you can do down there; I had some great mountain biking and got some decent surfing in!

It’s just a couple more months until the snow starts falling in the Northern hemi, and I’m really looking forward to making some pow turns!

Jones Snowboards welcomes Mitch Tolderer to the European Team

Jeremy Jones — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:32:39 +0000

Jones Snowboards is proud to announce the addition of Mitch Tolderer to our European Team.

Tolderer’s lifestyle, attitude and big mountain abilities make him a perfect fit for Jones Snowboards as he has been a fixture on the podium of the world’s biggest freeride competitions and has recently led the splitboard movement in Europe. This past season he finished second in the Freeride World Tour Overall standings, opened up a ton of new terrain in his home country of Austria and made a movie about his adventures called Hike2Ride.

Sharing our same dedication to the unknown, Mitch focuses his life on the search for the next un-ridden wave or peak. Currently he is in the middle of a four month South American walk-about and just left the coast of Peru. He sent us this message on his way to the mountains:

“This week we will get our snowboard bag and all our mountain gear sent from Austria. We plan to go explore the Cordillera Blanca in the Peruvian Andes. Then we will be back to the ocean before we head up to the volcanoes in Ecuador this November.” – Mitch

When Mitch picks up his board bag he’ll have a quiver of Jones Snowboards including a Flagship that he had the chance to test last winter in Verbier. Here’s a few thoughts from Mitch about his first day on the Flagship:

“The day after the Verbier Xtreme I hiked up the Bec de Rosses again to reach the mountain just behind. This smaller peak had looked so sweet the day before! Jeremy Jones had given me a 161 Flagship and I was really curious what this board he created would be like. Although I thought the 161 would seem ’small’ riding off-piste it felt really nice. After a few turns the board felt really smooth and familiar under my feet. I can’t wait to try the 164 flagship!” – Mitch

Mitch Tolderer testing the 161 Flagship in Verbier, March 2010. Photos: Jancsi Hadik

Look out for more of Tolderer on Jones Snowboards this winter. Meanwhile, check out Mitch’s blog for some notes from the road including this video of his latest surf adventure in Peru.

Deeper World Premiere Details

Seth Lightcap — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:35:10 +0000

Come one, come all to the DEEPER world premiere on Friday, September 10 in North Lake Tahoe, California!

O’Neill and Teton Gravity Research will proudly present the event in conjunction with non-profit partner the Sierra Avalanche Center.

Where: Truckee River Amphitheatre in Truckee, Calif.

When: Friday, September 10. Expo from 6-8 p.m., Show begins at 8 p.m. and afterparty to follow at Fifty-Fifty Brewery.

Cost: $15. Children under 8 are free with paying adult. Entry includes 2 for 1 voucher to Alpine Meadows Ski Area and proceeds go to support the Sierra Avalanche Center.

Ticket Info: Advance tickets will be available at Fifty-Fifty Brewery in Truckee and online at the TGR Events page. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash only).

Deeper European Tour Dates

Jeremy Jones — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:48:12 +0000

These are the bigger shows for Europe. Stay tuned because we will be adding more stops. Check here for ticket and venue information.

I will be at all the shows but Gents so come party with me. – Jeremy Jones

Deeper North America Tour Dates

Seth Lightcap — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:56:51 +0000

After two long years of work the wait is almost over! The DEEPER World Premiere in North Tahoe is nearly here?!

DEEPER World Premiere - Friday, September 10th, 8 p.m. - Truckee, CA - Truckee River Amphitheatre

Teton Gravity Research will proudly debut DEEPER in over thirty North American cities following the Truckee premiere. Don’t miss the opportunity to catch this revolutionary big mountain snowboarding film on the big screen. Jeremy Jones will be appearing at select tour dates. European tour info coming soon. For more info on tickets and locations visit TGRsnowboarding.com

Sept 10th Truckee, CA WORLD PREMIERE at the Truckee River Amphitheatre

Sept 13th San Francisco, CA Independent

Sept 15th Salt Lake City, UT Brewvies

Sept 22nd Denver, CO Oriental Theatre

Sept 23rd Boulder, CO Boulder Theatre

Sept 24th Fort Collins, CO Lory Student Center

Sept 28th Seattle, WA Egyptian Theatre

Sept 29th Vancouver, BC Ridge Theatre

Sept 30th Portland, OR Bagdad Theatre

Sept 30th Whistler, BC

Oct 1st Middlebury, VT Middlebury College

Oct 1st Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre

Oct 1st CO Springs, CO Stargazers Theatre

Oct 5th Bend. OR Tower Theatre

Oct 5th Reno, NV JA Nugget

Oct 6th Salt Lake City, UT Fine Arts Auditorium at the U.

Oct 6th Bozeman, Mt Emerson Center

Oct 7th Sacramento, CA Tower Theatre

Oct 7th Steamboat, CO The Grand Ballroom

Oct 8th Los Angeles, CA Cinespace

Oct 8th Summit County, CO

Oct 9th Vail, CO

Oct 15th Bellingham, WA WWU performing Arts Center

Oct 23rd Bethlehem, PA The Ice House

Oct 23rd Jackson Hole, WY Pink Gartner

Oct 27th Spokane, WA Bing Crosby/Met Theatre

Nov 4th Ogden, UT Wildcat Theater

Nov 12th Ketchum, ID Apples Bar and Grill

Nov 25th Montreal, QC La Tulipe

Dec 1st Burlington, VT Higher Ground

Dec 2nd Boston, MA IMAX at Boston Aquarium

Dec 2nd Toronto Steamwhistle Brewery

Dec 3rd New York Gramercy Theatre

Dec 3rd Aspen, CO Wheeler Opera House

Dec 18th Mammoth, CA Mammoth Mountain

DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Tantalus and Joffre

JonavenMoore — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:54:39 +0000

Jones team rider Jonaven Moore explored some wicked terrain in Western British Columbia the past season. Check out a few excerpts from his blog about it:

Tantalus

For me, getting into the Tantalus was one of those sorts of things where you realize that for a long time you were looking for something and its been right in front of you the whole time. I’ve been kind of realizing this for a while in snowboarding, and have to thank my mom and stepdad for moving us to Western Canada 20 years ago. BC is blessed with mountains that are on par with anything, anywhere else in the world. It’s started to become starkly clear when I would go on a trip to Switzerland, or Russia or some other incredible destination snowboarding, and I would be so, so, excited on coming home.

The last couple of years for me have been about trying to get after some objectives that were closer to home. Stuff that I’d looked at for a long time, and just never quite gotten to. Well, its pretty much impossible to drive the sea-to-sky highway on a clear day and not look up at the Tantalus in awe. It is cracked ice, and jagged spires rising nearly out of the ocean that rival Alaska in every way. Living under them in the Squamish Valley only added to my once-removed intimacy with these mountains – I watched the sun rise on them nearly every morning that I woke up at home.

The last time that I was up there we rushed into a bunch of stuff with a helicopter and got our asses handed to us. One of my nine lives used up, and definitely one of Ryan’s. We had done two runs (one on Serratus and one off Tantalus) and on our third run on Serratus the whole thing fractured wall to wall (probably class 2.5 or 3) and thankfully ripped full path by itself, leaving us clinging to the top of a now icy mountain with our stomachs trying to climb out of our throats.

This time was the polar opposite of that trip. We had a bigger crew, were dropped off up there well prepared, with camping gear, and the intent to climb all of our lines on foot. The best way to feel anything out is to take your time going up it. You have to be really confident in something before your willing to spend hours climbing on it.

Likely, the coolest part of the trip for me was bivying at the top of Tantauls’ north ridge. I wanted to ride a line that I looked up at from my place, but the trick was that it got light starting at about 7am and by about 10 or so am you didn’t want to be anywhere near it – it would be getting too much sun and the avalanche danger spiking. The rumbling glacier itself only added to this, because though there was a bench to stop on, below was holes and crevasses that you wanted nothing to do with. I decided that the best plan for the line that I wanted to ride would be to climb up it in the evening, dig a bivy at the top of the line and spend the night. I’ve always wanted to wake up in the morning from a small perch, look over the edge at the line, get my stuff together, throw my backpack with my sleeping gear for a good tumble, and then ride down light to go get it.

Mt. Joffre

The first time I saw the Joffre I was 13 driving over the Duffy Lake road with my mom headed to the Westbeach classic. I was on my way to a pipe contest, and the drive over the ‘duffy’ seemed to take forever. There was a lot of dirt stretches still and I was in high anticipation of the contest we were headed to. Needless to say though, driving over the duffy that clear afternoon, there was no way that I could miss seeing the massive ‘main’ couloir that splits Joffre down the center. It is simply the most impressive peak on the Duffy Lake Road, towering beyond the Duffy lake when you approach from the east, and inspired awe in me a as a kid to see that there was a rideable line through its towering cliffs right from the summit. I think that Pehota and Trevor probably skied the first descent of it sometime around when I first saw it, but I wouldn’t learn that till many years later.

Helicopters, snowmobiles, and the bright lights of being a ‘professional’ snowboarder stole my attention away from many things, the main couloir on Joffre being one of them. This was the second time I’ve gone up it now (the first was last year). Both times were with friends, and though we tried to shoot some sort of evidence of it, it doesn’t lend itself well to photos or video. It never gets sun, and is simply too steep for too long to ride in any sort of ‘charging’ manner. That said, there is almost nowhere in the world(that I’ve stood) more impressive that at the top of the Joffre main. You are at the height of all the adjacent mountains at the base of the couloir itself. It feels like you can see to Lilloet from the top of that thing!

Photo By Chris Ankney

Nanga Parbat

Seth Lightcap — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:05:16 +0000

Whether we’re in our backyard in the Sierra, on vacation in AK, or chasing penguins in Antarctica, Jones Snowboards is dedicated to the pursuit of freeriding the world’s most incredible peaks. So when we heard about Polish rider Marcin Jaskolka’s Himalayan expedition to Nanga Parbat we jumped at the chance to support him on his quest to ride down this magnificent 8000-meter mountain in Pakistan.

Here is Marcin’s first post, detailing his goals for the expedition:

Nanga Parbat (8125 meters)

Ride down Nanga Parbat? Why not!

Interestingly, the plan was born after my shoulder surgery. I used my free time after the surgery well by looking at hundreds of photographs of Nanga Parbat and planning the snowboarding route. I also knew that the mountain is not technically easy and in combination with the strong wind, which often occurs at the top, the snowboard attached to my backpack will be a great load during the expedition. I think that the number of miles I’ve ran has at least doubled. Running has been, beside riding and climbing, the base of my preparation. Condition, condition, and again, condition! I know that if I want to take the board with me I have to be two times stronger than the average climber without a board.

Nanga Parbat (8125 meters) –The Diamir Wall

A few details about the project: Nanga Parbat forms the western anchor of the Himalayan Range and is the westernmost eight-thousand meter peak. It’s name translates to “Naked Mountain” in English. I plan to climb the peak via the 1962 Kinshofer (German) route which ascends a buttress on the left side of the Diamir Face. This face is one of the largest in the world – towering over four thousand meters above base camp! After I summit, I’m going to try to ride from the peak on a snowboard.

I will choose the exact snowboard route while climbing, taking a few things into consideration like the risk of avalanches and places lacking in snow because of wind-blown. For the expedition I’ve chosen The Flagship 161 cm, which should be ideal for the rough Himalayan conditions. The project starts in the end of June and will last approximately 2 months. Keep your fingers crossed for a successful mission!

- Marcin Jaskolka

Jones Mountain Twin

ForrestShearer — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:43:01 +0000

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Every time I got on the Twin this year there was no stopping me, the mountain felt like my own personal skate park. This board feels insane. Backcountry kickers, cliffs with powder landing, resort runs, and heavy
lines with high speed run outs. The Twin handled it all. The board feels extremely solid under foot
and tons of pop in the flex for maximizing the shred.
Twin tip progressive freestyle shape, CAMROCK flex, Mellow Magne- Traction edges.
It’s my go to board for riding everything. Here’s a teaser of the Jones Mountain Twin in action.
This day was a sweet kicker session with friends. Hiking it for the love of snowboarding.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
I can’t wait for winter again.

2010 Podiums and Pictures

Seth Lightcap — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:10:39 +0000

2010 has already been a big year for Jones Snowboards. Our boards haven’t even hit the shops yet the buzz about our freeride specific designs has begun to grow deafening. No surprise all of you are excited though. We’re chomping and anxious to share what we have created, especially considering the amazing success our team found while testing the boards this season…

That would be Jones team rider Ralph Backstrom walking away with second place overall in the 2010 North Face Masters of Snowboarding series. Backstrom piloted the 161 Flagship to impressive results at all three contests including a 3rd at the first stop in Snowbird and a 2nd at the series finale in Kirkwood.

Mid-April, Backstrom stepped it up again at the King Of The Hill comp in Valdez, AK. He narrowly missed the podium taking home fourth amongst a stacked field. You can get a taste of the AK contest terrain he was riding in this POV edit :

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Backstrom wasn’t the only Jones rider on the podium…

That would be Ryland Bell and his 164 Flagship taking home third place at the Squaw Valley stop of the Freeride World Tour in February. Bell also fared well in the North Face Masters series snagging fifth overall including second place at Snowbird and fifth place at Kirkwood. Check out his 2010 FWT line down Bungee Bowl at Squaw Valley:

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Hopefully you’ve caught some of the “Deeper” reports that have been popping up in cyberspace this season – like this one on TWSNOW.com and this at ESPN Snowboarding. We really appreciate the response and support we’ve received about the Deeper project. Not to mention that the hard work feels all the more satisfying when you’re rewarded with stuff like this:

Those would be two pages from the new Frequency Mag. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet don’t sleep!

Frequency: The Snowboard Journal is always chock full of rad stories and photos and this issue is no exception. I am thrilled to have contributed three shots of Jones’ team riders in action, including this bottom image of Jones climbing the “Psycho Pinner” in the High Sierra. Ryland was featured with a cool article and image introducing him as well.