Snowboarding
The Best Urban Snowboarding Spots in the World
According to famed photographer 'E-Stone', here are the top places to snowboard on the streets.
The world of the urban snowboarder is a far cry from the sport's ideal conditions of blue skies, crisp mountain air and champagne-powder descents back to the hot tub. Instead, the urban rider has to face long, late nights shoveling grime-laced slush, dealing with hassles from the authorities, and surviving a lot more falls. Like Graffiti artists, urban snowboarders find themselves searching for the same kinds of places in pursuit of their art: the dirty, broken corners of the city where nobody cares what you do.
When it comes to documenting the hard-working elite of urban snowboarding in America, nobody is more respected than Ethan Stone Fortier, aka E-Stone. Another rider who discovered his true talent behind the lens, somehow E-Stone juggles his role as staff photographer at Snowboarder Magazine with running his snowboard brand, Tech 9. Each winter is a grind, but for Stone, the satisfaction of traveling the world in search of gritty new spots never gets old. Here’s a street art-themed sampling of a career dedicated to shredding in the city, in E-Stone's own words:
Pat Moore, Ogden Utah, USA
© E-Stone
Lucas Magoon, Warsaw, Poland
© E-Stone
Jonah Owen, Tallinn, Estonia
© E-Stone
Nick Poohachoff, Vilnius, Lithuania
© E-Stone
