Spring Break Snowboards

A few words with the artist behind a new line of handmade snowboards

Bored with the current direction of mainstream snowboarding, artist and professional snowboarder Corey Smith decided to do something about it. The resulting line Spring Break Snowboards brings the activity back to the basics with handmade wooden snowboards meant for making beautiful powder turns and reviving a love for nature. Not only do these wooden beasts look like a blast to ride, Smith hand shapes and …

Boreas Packs

Design-driven gear from a new brand founded by outdoor industry vets

Smart, simple and functional design drives Boreas Gear, the outdoor gear startup set to officially launch this fall. Although the company is just getting started, the guys behind the scenes all hail from some of the biggest names in the biz (The North Face, Timbuk2, Eastern Mountain Sports, etc.). The team found themselves bored with a market made stale by the overabundance of complicated, tech-driven, …

KCDC Can Cover

A clever vinyl wrap for stealthy public drinking

Innovations in the art of concealed pubic drinking don’t come along too often, so when we recently found the latest version of the ingenious static-cling can cover by KCDC skateshop we needed to share the news. While others like Anti-Hero skateboards have been making them for years, the innovation here is making the wrap “man can” size. The Brooklyn-based skateshop cleverly seized on Arizona Iced …