The Achilles heel of snowboards is that they are absolutely no use for going uphill, as a result we are forced to use one of the following options:

• Hiking – Always worth avoiding
• Chairlifts – Practical, but dull
• Helicopters – Awesome, but you do need a tame pilot and they’re always tricky to find

But there is another option, and we’re busy trying to find a way to afford one right now...

This was in the back of this seasons's Transworld Snowboarding Gear Guide. How many Photoshop mistakes can you spot?

Also its a bit strange that the lad in the sunscreen commercial has no exposed skin at all. Headhunter don't seem to have much confidence in their product. Piz Buin on the other hand show how it should be done...

Snowboard Porn – Yup, we’ve gone there.

Last year we wrote an article on snowboarding tattoos and that article has become by far the most read part of our site. It’s so popular that the article now accounts for more than 25% of all the visitors who have ever come to the site. 

But since last year the internet has continued to fill up with more snowboarding inspired tattoos so it’s time for Snowboarding Tattoos 2 or I guess Snowboarding Tattwo. Because the first article ended up bringing so many readers to our site I image that this one will probably put us up somewhere in the Google/Facebook range…

Last week this website disappeared and our internet connection broke, which made fixing the site very tricky. After hitting a lot of buttons and studying the art of waiting, the Illicit Snowboarding is back. While things were broken I took the off-line time to make the site look different. Kind of going for a snowboard top sheet with stickers look for the new season.

Normal service will resume shortly.

This is a movie that was released in 2002 and I’m amazed that I’d never heard of it until recently - It is epic. Set in the brilliantly named Karawanken Range in Austria and featuring Pete Sampras’ wife, normally reliable actor Rufus Sewell, and some bloke who used to be in EastEnders, it’s a budget version of Cliffhanger with going-down-mountains replacing the going-up-mountains format. The working tile was “The Extremists” but due to other events at the time that had to be dropped rapidly...

Other then the Olympics the only time that skiing and snowboarding really makes the news is when someone dies. The amount of press coverage is determined by a complex equation using variables such as; how old the people were, how famous they were, and more recently an obsession with whether they were wearing a helmet or not. But the factor that has by far the biggest impact and guarantees a veritable press frenzy is when a large number of people are killed or injured, and the most consistent and successful mass killer of skiers and snowboarders is the ski lift. Today we take a look at over sixty years of ski lift accidents using a couple of infographics…

The snowterbike has a history spanning back over 70 years and yet you’ve probably never come across one. In this article we take a look at the history, present and future of the snowterbike, and like any good internet story, we start with the Nazis…

Previously in the Last Resorts articles we’ve taken a look at some snowboard destinations that you aren’t likely to get a chance to try because they’re a bit too warm, too remote or too warlike. This week’s resort however is lovely, it’s easy to get to, beautifully maintained and there are no lift queues, the only drawback is the price…It costs a cool $250,000 to join. Welcome to the Yellowstone Club…

This was Darren’s career plan…

1.       Master the most dangerous element of snowboarding

2.       Set a world record that won’t been beaten for over 10 years

3.       Sit back and let the fame start and the money roll in

Unfortunately for Darren, things didn’t quite work out according to plan. He managed to do the hard work and achieve points 1 & 2, however point 3 has been a significantly more evasive. In 1999 he became the fastest man to ever strap on a snowboard, but over ten years later pretty much no one has ever heard of the guy. Here’s the reason why…