The following photographs are part of a continuing documentary
of people who make their living from snowboarding, or who simply
live for snowboarding. Within this community is a surprising variety.
There are some who make several hundred thousand dollars a year
and own multiple houses. Others live in tents or campers. The
pros travel all year for competitions and photo-shoots. Countless
hours are spent in cars, cramped hotel rooms, or sleeping in airports.
What fuels them is the short, fleeting time spent descending a
powder-filled couloir, or riding through trees at leg-snapping
speed, or carving an icy slope to possible contest victory. Snowboarding
is very much a landscape sport; it is action in harmony with terrain.
It can be in-your-face or it may be a quieter, isolated, form-driven,
expression.