Snowboarding is the dog’s cajonés… Blasting through floaty powder, roosting big turns and sending it.
I’ve been in love with it, since I first laid eyes on it, on TV as a kid. The trucks would be off me and my mates’ skateboard decks as soon as the first snowflake hit the ground. There was no art of the turn for us back then on those binding-less stumpies. It was straight-line central and see who could stay on the longest, approaching Mach 10 with no sensible way of stopping.
The love never left though, I finally got a couple of lessons, a proper board and (ahem) many, many years on, I still love nothing more (TBH, it is a tie with DH biking) than sliding sideways. I could happily spend all-day every-day doing it.
The culture, the ethos, the sensations. The scenery, the progression, the style, the exhilaration and the powder. Awesome! 
This section of Up-Stix is dedicated to snowboarding. We’re very lucky to live out here in the Alps where we can squeeze plenty of it in during the Winter and we’re even luckier that one of Europe’s snowboarding mecca’s, Avoriaz, is just up the road and part of the same Portes du Soleil linked ski area.