Jeremy Jones
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 [...]
Jeremy Jones
Mind surfing mountains has always been a favorite past time for me. Just seeing unique terrain inspires me and fills me with a lot of joy. Antarctica is called the white continent. They should add steep to it. I have never seen nor ridden so much steep terrain in my life. The mountains were [...]
Jeremy Jones
What a difference a year makes. Last season there was so much snow during the holidays that the mountain was closed for days at a time and we hardly snowboarded because the mountains were falling down all around us. This year there was very little snow but the whole mountain was open and you could [...]
Jeremy Jones
“Mountains Speak, Wise Men Listen” John Muir
This is one of my favorite quotes that perfectly sums up approaching the mountains. You can take all the avalanche courses in the world but if you do not read the signs it does not matter. Often times there is no room for error in the backcountry [...]
Jeremy Jones
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 [...]
