Venture Snowboards launches "Shape Shack" experimental division and boards
With a growing focus on powder and backcountry riding, some of the snowboard designs that have come out over the past few seasons look more like original designs from the 60s and 70s than modern day equipment. They have swallowtails, pointy noses and odd profiles. Some - like the Rome Hammerhead - just look downright strange and otherworldly. With the launch of its new experimental division ...

Salomon Snowboards Unveils Shadowfit Binding Technology
Portland, Or (January 19, 2012): Salomon Snowboards continues to rethink innovation with the new ShadowFit Technology — making you forget that your bindings are there, with a better feel on your board, a more natural movement while riding and a truckload of tweak.

Two feet, two snowboards: Dual Snowboards split your width
Dual Snowboards delivers a unique twist to the world of snowboarding by cutting the traditional snowboard in half along the waist, giving you a board for each foot. With this simple move that effectively sees a lunch-tray-like board strapped to each foot, the company says riders get more freedom to move and conceptualize new tricks like ninja-like flip-n-kicks, but they'll also be able to pull ...

Stolen snowboards had sentimental value
"That board will never be as valuable to them as it is to me." Jamieson Bruce, of Coldwater, and his friend, Andrea McConkey, of Oro-Medonte Township, had their snowboards stolen from Horseshoe Resort, Tuesday evening.[...]

SIA Snow Show gives peek of next ski season's gear
One of the best previews of what snow-sports manufacturers have for next ski season comes at theannual trade show thrown by SnowSports Industries America, whether it's a new line of skis or off-the-wall ...