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

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

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

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 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 :

http://www.vimeo.com/11039546

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:

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.