August 25
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Photo: Laura Austin
Craven is a loose canon. Living his life exactly how he snowboards, the word “try” doesn’t exist in Dustin’s impressively large vocabulary, there is only do. Whether riding tipsy toward a 70 foot jump or chasing unsuspecting females through a fine establishment of the night, when Craven’s on the loose, prepare for some out of control results.
Stance: Regular
Home Mountain: Sunshine Village
Board: Capita Horrorscope 158
Binding: Union
Outerwear: Oakley
Goggle: Oakley
May 9, 2012
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Recap: T. Bird
Captions: Pat Pridges
Thus far, Superpark 16 Presented by Gatorade is shaping up to be one of the best of all time. Day two started off with similar weather to day one. No wind. No clouds. Plenty of sunshine. Needless to say that without the 300-plus person registration process, the Superpark 2012 attendees got right to business.
From nine to noon, the Seven Springs features got sessioned hard. Their two jumps–one at the top and one at the bottom– went off, with twenty-plus riders hiking and hitting the seventy-footer. Once again, Hans and Nils Mindnich proved to be the standouts on the top kicker with a plethora of moves that not only kicked off the session, but kept it going until lunch. Meanwhile, the monster booter constructed by Joel Rerko and his diligent staff was being lapped by about forty riders, including, but not limited to Seth Hill, Sage Kotsenburg, Sam Hulbert, Brandon Cocard, and Brendan Gerard. While Brendan emerged as the star rider (to me, at least), that’s not to take away from any of the other takers who pointed it at the behemoth. The photos from the jump may look fake, but the reality of the situation this morning can only conclude that snowboard park design and execution has hit an astronomical level.
Immediately after lunch, about twenty-five riders were hand-picked to get down on a private hip session. Said riders included Pat Moore, Garrett Warnick, Sam Taxwood, Seth Hill, Victor Simco, Blake Paul, Josh Dirksen, Robby Balharry, Ben Bogart, Forest Bailey, Dustin Craven, Ben Bilocq, Michael Gray, Austen Sweetin, Austin Hironaka, Kyle Lopiccolo, Brendan Gerard (who might have my vote for overall Superpark standout at the moment), Andrew Brewer, Hans and Nils Mindnich (who also might be current standouts), Phil Jacques and a few more. At the end of the afternoon jam, either Austen Sweetin or Dustin Craven went the highest on the hip, Sam Taxwood and Hans Mindnich almost stole the show with gigantic alley-oop front threes, while Austen Sweetin stomped some insane switch methods, but it was Garrett Warnick who walked away with the best trick (and best overall performance) when he sent an alley-oop back seven to the tranny. The crowd went wild and then piled out, except for a select few who were tapped for a sunset shoot on Seven Springs’ top jump and Boreal’s step-up.
As soon as the sun went down, twenty invited riders made their way to the top of the Superpark setup on the Seven Springs booter. Pat Moore, Garrett Warnick, Seth Hill, Brendan Gerard, Andreas Wiig, Scotty Vine, the brothers Mindnich, Colin Spencer, Tim Humphreys, Mitch Richmond, and more lapped the step down as the sun set over the valley in Bend. Superpark is all about sunset shoots, and the images that come from them, and needless to say, you'll see what we're talking about in the January issue of SNOWBOARDER Magazine.
There's three days of Superpark still to go, so keep checking back for all the info about Superpark 16 Presented by Gatorade live at Mt. Bachelor.
March 28, 2012
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Words: Pat Bridges
Photos: Ryan "Huggy" Hughes (unless otherwise credited)
I have been to 4 of the 8 Grenade Games. I didn't make the trek to Washington for the edible induced mayhem they had on tap at The Summit At Snoqualmie. Nor did I take time off of work for the very commercial though still highly debaucherous Whistler iterations of Danny Kass's shred centric love in. It was at the 4/20 inspired June Mountain events where I became taken with the Grenade Games charms. This was also where I began to look forward to the event as a reunion with the original Grenerds. Though Bear Mountain's version of the Grenade Games downplays the events stoney side it still lives up to its billing as a celebration of snowboarding's rebel roots.
The Grenade of 2012, which includes a Fuel TV show, MMA affiliations and a die cut on every pickup at Camp Pendleton, may not resemble the endearingly anti-establishment stencil schtick of 2002, but when you step back and look at the players who made Grenade blow up at the onset of the new Millennium it is hard to not get nostalgic. This sentimentality is what makes my annual pilgrimage to the Grenade Games among the most memorable laps I take each season. Being able to strap in alongside those same Grenerds who made Main Park at Mammoth seem like home to me for five seasons is reason enough to ignore the bullshit surrounding what it has all become and simply drop in.
Danny once again brought a lot of the band back together for Grenade Games 8. While riders like Erik Leon, Mads Johnson, Dustin Craven, Scott Blum, Harrison Gordon, Brandon Hobush, Zander Blackmon and Spencer Schubert were surely doing stunts stellar enough to turn every head on the deck at Bear Mountain, it was Brian Regis's backside rodeos, Colin Langlois's alley-oop line in the pipe and late 180's over the nipples, Dave Schiffs braces and Shane Flood's everything that got me hyped. While blackouts were abound everywhere you looked last weekend I was the one who was time traveling. Sadly that last part isn't truly the case because if I had that ability I would be at Grenade Games 9 already riding with Sketchy, Schiff, Shane, Colin, Regis and if I'm lucky Casillo, Beaman, Clancy, Leach, Rice, Keenan, Lane, Giaccomo, Rahm, Bobby, Reilly, Scotty, Morace and the rest of 'em including Matt!
March 14, 2012
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Legendary Snowboarder X Games interviewer Dustin "Dusty" Craven is vying for his chance to be the face of the Whistler Ski And Snowboard festival. Unfortunately he got his front tooth replaced. We think if you view the shit out of this video he'll beat the banktellers also lobbying for their shot at the spotlight. And if you want prime examples of the misdeeds that can be occuring on the TWSSF edits if he wins simply watch our X Games/ Olympic Qualifying archive posted below.
March 1, 2012
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From the crew that brought you Videograss’ “Retrospect” in 2011, comes their latest offering “Enlighten.” A snowboard video for snowboarders.
Featuring: Frank April, Matt Belzile, Alex Cantin, Dustin Craven, Bryan Fox, Will Jackways, Phil Jacques, Jake Kuzyk, Danny Larsen, Bode Merrill, Eero Niemela, Benji Ritchie
Presented by:
Monster Energy
Sponsored by:
Arnette, Ashbury, Banshee Bungee, Billabong, Bonfire, Capita, Elm, Holden, K2, Method Mag, Nitro, Quiksilver, Raiden, Ride, Salomon, Slash Snowboardmag, Spy, Vans
December 27, 2011
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To continue our additional coverage of Superpark 15 presented by Gatorade in conjunction with our January Superpark issue living on newsstands now, we are bringing you the top 20 photos from our senior photographers as selected by SNOWBOARDER's photo editor Huggy. With the next-level features and endless amount of talent that attended Superpark 15 at Mt. Bachelor, it lent itself to some amazing shots. Take a look through by clicking the "next" button under the image to see some of the best pixels that came out of the event.
September 13, 2011
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Here is another teaser for Capita's "Defenders Of Awesome"... this time featuring our boy Dustin Craven.
To see the rest of the teasers check out Capita's Facebook page.
August 4, 2011
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The new teaser for 8 Mile's upcoming movie "Vacay" just dropped... and so did Dustin Craven's pants.
July 15, 2011
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In the latest Dispatch, our senior photographer Oli Gagnon shares a few photos he shot with a 4x5 camera that didn't make it in the mags.
May 12, 2011
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blue skies, epic sunset, and next level snowboarding made Day Two of Superpark 15 one to remember.
May 11, 2011
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From sun up to sundown riders were getting loose and going big. Day Two of Superpark 15 presented by Gatorade at Mt. Bachelor.
March 27, 2011
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It may not have gone down on 4/20 this year, but the 7th annual Grenade Games drew stoners, boners, derelicts and degenerates to Big Bear yet again.
February 2, 2011
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The level of riding in the X Games gets more progressive every year. This time, Pat Moore showed up to do the first "Blow Hole" ever performed on the X Games Slopestyle course.
January 29, 2011
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Torstein Horgmo wins the Winter X Games 15 Big Air with a Frontside 180 triple backflip. What do you think, did Torstein deserve to win?
January 20, 2011
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On Thursday night, January 27th, the Arnette Brain Freeze Tour will kick off at Bender’s Tavern in Denver, Colorado, during the SIA Tradeshow.
January 10, 2011
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Arnette is proud to announce it has added an elite snowboard team in support of the 2011 re-launch of its snow goggle program.
December 29, 2010
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In this Guestbook Dustin Craven lets you in on his deepest darkest secrets. Well maybe not his darkest, because if we did that we would be banned from the World Wide Web.
November 30, 2010
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Who would win in a fight between Jess Kimura and Dustin Craven? Find out in this Guestbook.
August 25, 2010
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Craven is a loose canon. Living his life exactly how he snowboards, the word “try” doesn’t exist in Dustin’s impressively large vocabulary, there is only do. Whether riding tipsy toward a 70 foot jump or chasing unsuspecting females through a fine establishment of the night, when Craven’s on the loose, prepare for some out of control results.
May 9, 2010
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Day 5 at Superpark 14 was a half day, but it's safe to say the riders didn't shred half heartedly.
May 9, 2010
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After a dose of snow and high winds put a hold on sending it the 2nd day, things got SUPER on the 3rd.
May 6, 2010
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Day 3 of Superpark 14 at Mammoth Mountain, CA saw the heaviest shit go down in years.
February 8, 2010
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It's hard to get over your first time and that's why we went back to Hana Beaman for another round of Guestbook action.
January 13, 2010
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More intoxicating halfpipe coverage from the 2010 Olympic Grand Prix Qualifying Series.
December 13, 2009
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Hana Beaman and Jordan Phillips win the 2009 Copper Grand Prix Progression Session.
December 11, 2009
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Shaun White qualifies in the top spot with Louie Vito and Greg Bretz hot on his heels.
By: Intern Frank
November 27
NIGHT TRAIN!