Who said all good things must come to an end? Hiatus, sure, but TTN's are back.
Torment Weather Report: As early fall rolls around for the Northern Hemisphere, winter is wrapping up down undah. Freddy Perry made Australia look pretty darn fun, and Valle Nevado, Chile received 5 feet of snow in 5 days in late August. Hoping this means good things for the coming winter up North. NOAA is predicting a decent chance of La Niña:
“A transition from ENSO-neutral to La Niña is likely in the next couple of months, with a 71% chance of La Niña during October - December 2025.”
Tropical storms “Jerry”, and “Karen” have been ripping it up in the Atlantic ocean mid-hurricane season. Both storms are supposed to peter out, which is just as well, because we could all use less Jerrys and Karens in our lives. Earlier this fall, two storms orbited each other in a dance called “The Fujiwhara Effect,” in which, “depending on their relative strengths, the storms can either circle each other and eventually move on, merge into a single larger storm, or the weaker storm can be absorbed by the stronger one.”
So, hypothetically speaking, if this guy, and this guy left the lip of a single jump at The Stomping Grounds Park at the exact same time, would they combine to do a quintuple cork revert, or repel one another and do synchronized Benedekesque backside 180 shifties? Jumping is wild right now, keep getting weird please.
In adjacent boarding news, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably saw that Chris Joslin landed on the cover of Thrasher mag, going back for a 360 flip that he narrowly missed years ago.
As fellow publishers of a print mag, it’s nice to see the waves a cover can still make. And not to bite skating in every possible way (though our roots do lie there…), but it got us wondering if there’s an El Toro of snowboarding. Is it Chad’s Gap? The Red Ledge? Thoughts? Nominees? We’re leaning Chad’s, as only our finest carcass-chuckers have stepped to it, and we all know it’s hella dangerous.
Teaser season is upon us. Burton, Pay the Rent, and the Mid-Life Crisis crew have all dropped theirs. Nitro also enters the fray with their offering Spike. Ted Borland’s at the helm of this one so it should be a heater.
Autumn Headwear picked up a new rider in the form of podcast-host and Whistler style-master Jody Wachniak. Jody may have “ruined some of his career” by showing up to the hill in sub-par kits. Problem solved, better start chucking.
X-Games is “All-In”, with a full rebrand, some sort of league, and a new milquetoast logo, complete with absolutely heinous photoshop jobs to roll it out. Honestly, we hope it goes off and everyone makes bank, but it’s giving Cracker Barrel vibes.
Additionally, for some reason a merino wool brand hosted an “urban pond skim” in London, a snowmobiler jumped over Benny Milam, and 1 million kids rode the rope at Trollhaugen, where they kept a giant pile of snow “on-ice” all summer for their “Openhaugen” Rail Jam and Fall Festival. Also, snowboarding is likely getting even more expensive this season, at least in the great state of Oregon…
Recently, we revisited the classic snowboard movie BikeCar, starring Travis Parker, Louie Fountain, Scotty Wittlake, and Thayne Mahler. The sandboarding section at 34:20 is hilarious, nostalgic, and surprisingly gnarly. So much so that we watched it twice.
And then the almighty algorithm gifted us this insanity:
Which reminded us of this classic:
Onto the realm of full-edits. First outta the gate are a buncha Australians riding the streets of Finland, as well as a Scandinavian riding Japanese snowboards down giant arctic lines. How wonderfully multi-cultural we are.
Gotta close this one out with some less good news. Beloved snowboard-photographer, musician, surfer, father, and pizza maker Scott Sullivan suffered a horrendous injury while body-surfing in Brazil. He’s on the mend but could use the community’s help. Go Fund Me Link Here.
If you stuck around this far, here's your Instagram Clip of the Week/Fall/Summer: It's Gonna Be Slide 1 For Us, Mons Røisland
