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Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More

Exclusive! YoBeat’s Official Louie Vito Olympic Interview

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we've really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends up being (or not.) It also doesn't hurt that a decent portion of team USA are not just lame pipe jocks, but snowboarders we actually kind of like. And since we could, we figured some quick, EXCLUSIVE interviews were in order (but only with the people we care about.) First up, Louie Vito. Which experience…
Read More

A Random Hump Day with Sean Genovese

Photo: Keenan When you're not happy with your board sponsor in this day in age, there's only one thing to do: start your own brand. Sure, given then current economic climate, and the responsibilities of running a company, it might not be the easiest proposition. But for Sean Genovese, it's a walk in the park. Wait, no, I am lying. Sean is honestly one of the most random, out-there individuals that I've ever met, and the fact he is able to run his own snowboard brand is a testament to the fact that snowboarding is the world's greatest industry. Don't get me wrong, Sean is potentially the most fun human…
Read More

I Am Snowboarding in Portland

I Am Snowboarding, the collaborative art project to honor Jeff Anderson, arrived in Portland on January 8, 2010. The art lined the usual hallway of Nemo HQ, the beer on tap was free, and Trevor Graves was running around taking shots with his G10. At first glance it could have been any of the monthly art openings held at Nemo, but for the snowboard nerds this was truly something special. Each of the art pieces on display brought together a different photographer and artist. The photos, of course, were of Jeff Anderson through out his life, but the artist interpretations were as different as could be. Colin Whyte was kind…
Read More

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
Read More

Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
Read More

How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
Read More

Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
Read More

Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
Read More

The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
Read More

Hump Day Goes Shooting with Dave Lehl

Ahh, snowboard photographers. Chicks love them, dudes want to be them. Oh wait, that's the actual pro snowboarders. Snowboard photographers are the ones with cold fingers and (probably) massive debt who, let's face it, probably weren't very good at snowboarding. But a few lucky and talented individuals have had the pleasure of living the dream (at least for a little while) thanks to a camera and a photographic eye and Summit Country-based Dave Lehl is one of them. That's not to say he goes home and rolls in piles of money, but Dave is what many want to be: a professional snowboard photographer, traveling the world and (usually) getting paid…
Read More