Rider: Chris Grenier

Photographer: Oli Gagnon

With an amazing start and the snow rapidly falling Snowboarding issue # 55 is jam packed with local content from Thredbo and Perisher. We even ducked over to NZ to score some fresh powder. Feature's also include a unique travel story of snowboarding in Greece, scoring deep powder in Japan and local riders hit the biggest jump ever built in early season Australia. With a massive gallery and trick tips this issue will surely get you motivated to run to the hills!

NZ: HIGHS IN JULY

Rolling the dice: an early season adventure in New Zealand, 2012.

JAPAN JOURNALS

A web-isodic excursion into Japan’s winter playground.

TRICK TIPS

Learn how to 50-50 frontside 3 out with Charles Beckinsale

DC: A TEAM MOVIE

Behind the scenes of the new DC movie, Must Be Nice.

PERISHER: A LITTLE OASIS

Snowboarders by their very nature are free-thinking humans, disjointed from the often sterile and linear thought patterns that characterise those not yet graced with the enlightening experience of strapping their corpse to a piece of wood and tossing it off the side of a frozen mountain.

CUTTING IT FINE

Thredbo, July 2012. Ryan Tiene, Clint Allan, Jake Koia, Robbie Walker and Charles Beckinsale.

GREECE BALLS

In the midst of economic and political turbulence in Greece, with daily riots and fires blazing in Athens while Merkel pointed her big German finger of shame at the country, a motley crew of snowboarders were determined to find a better side of this ancient nation.