August 23
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Photo: Oli Gagnon
Vermont has pumped out its share of technical rail riders in it’s day, including the likes of Chris Rotax, Yale Cousino and most recently Forest Bailey. Sweeping up rail jam titles across the country for the past few years, Bailey is on a mission to tackle all the metal in his path.
Stance: Goofy
Home Mountain: Northstar
Board: Gnu Park Pickle 150
Boot: New Balance
Binding: Gnu Backdoor
Outerwear: 686
Goggle: Drop
May 23, 2012
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Rider: Forest Bailey Photographer: Ryan "Hugruber" Hughes
May 21, 2012
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We asked our intern Jade who she thought were the hottest snowboarders... these are her answers.
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.
May 1, 2012
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Superpark 16 Presented by Gatorade is just around the corner, and the Prinoths and pushers are sculpting the biggest features of the year up on Bachelor. Well, to tide you over, we've compiled a super selection of video edits from Superpark 14.
April 24, 2012
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Dragon is pleased to announce Forest Bailey has joined the family as a member of their pro team of eclectic snowboarders. Currently living in Boulder, Colorado, by way of Vermont, Forest brings an innovative bag of tricks wherever he travels, resulting in a slew of accomplishments in his 20 short years. His biggest result yet was clinching the Gold Medal in Snowboard Street at Winter X Games 2012. Forest continues to showcase his original, free flowing style in contests and video clips across the globe so look for much more from him in the future.
April 24, 2012
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Rider: Forest Bailey Photograhper: Ryan "Hugruber" Hughes
March 28, 2012
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The Launch continues to be both the stomping grounds and proving grounds for some of the best up-and-coming young talent in Snowboarding. From it's debut in 2008 at the Northstar-At-Tahoe it has attracted the likes of Mark McMorris, Zak Hale, Sage Kotsenberg, and more who seem to be household names in the world of snowboarding today. However this may have not always been the case before they attended this event, and that is one thing that makes The Launch what it is. The playing field is leveled, and young riders are given the opportunity to really stand out and make an impression. Speaking of standing out, we have compiled some of our favorite photos from the past years of The Launch in order to hype up the upcoming event at Bear Mountain, April 3rd-6th. Take a click through the history of The Launch in the gallery above and keep you eyes peeled for coverage of this year's Launch during the first week of April, 2012.
February 21, 2012
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"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Kerouac, "On The Road"
The Mad Ones is a a web-based video project by Liam Gallagher. Inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac, The Mad Ones will follow the freaks, all winter long. Web flicks will be released every Monday through May. Some will be action edits, others about odd balls or oddities seen, weird experiences or whatever else happens to happen. Then, next September it'll all be mashed into a free-for-download movie.
Featuring: Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Scotty Wittlake, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Curtis Ciszek, Keegan Valaika, Mark Landvik, Blair Habenicht, Lucas Debari, Matt Edgers, Kael Martin and many more.
Supported by: K2 Snowboarding and Drink Water.
February 8, 2012
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Jeremy Dubs and Wildcard Films were rolling pixels at last weekends Tube City showdown at Snoqualmie. Check it out here as X Games Gold Medallist Forest Bailey, Brandon Hammid, Andy Bergin-Sperry, Jacob Krugmire, Nick Ennen, Kurt Jenson, Bart Patitucci, and Stefan Krumm and others get radical on the tubes.
January 30, 2012
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t was a big week in Colorado for riders on Mervin Mfg’s Gnu and Lib Tech snowboards. Gnu rider Forest Bailey won his first X Games gold in his first X Games appearance by winning the street competition. The next day Jamie Anderson won her third X Games gold in slopestyle riding a Gnu Ladies Choice. Later that night at the TransWorld SNOWboarding Rider Polls, Lib Tech riders took home major honors with Jamie Lynn receiving the ‘Legend Award,’ Travis Rice winning ‘Men’s Rider of the Year,’ and Eric Jackson’s part in People’s “Good Look” winning ‘Men’s Video Part Of The Year.’
January 27, 2012
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Forest Bailey is a gold medalist at the Winter X Games 2012 Street Rail Jam!
January 26, 2012
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Words and Photos: Mike Yoshida
To kick off the sixteenth year of X games, the newest competition of snowboard street was showcased. The top jibbers from the US and Canada arrived to show us some of the craziest moves we've seen in a while. The likes of: Forest Bailey, Zak Hale, Ethan Deiss, Nick Visconti, Louif Paradis, Phil Jacques, Ryan Paul, Johnnie Paxson, Dylan Alito and more, were giving the crowd what they came to see. Hardway 270's, 450's on and off, front lip to container smash, and half cab to backflip were some of the more difficult tricks thrown. Louif was buttery smooth with 270's on and off, Ethan had some insane shifty to 270 manuevers, and the standout clown Dylan Alito was terrorizing the course with his antics, dropping in whenever and not listening to the event coordinators. In the end it came down to three riders, who all rode insanely in their own way. Nick Visconti who came in third did a hardway cab 3 onto a flat down bar while Ryan Paul in second, did a numerous amount of hardway spinning and even attempted a hardway 450 onto the down bar. In the end he settled for a half cab on backflip out of the down flat ledge. Forest Bailey is a name that all will recognize after today. Bailey continually destroyed this course. He started with the flat container, where he landed tailslide oppo out, and 270'd the whole thing out to the flats. Then the Vermont native proceeded to do every hardway 270, cab and regular, with the best style I have ever seen. His skate influenced way of riding really shines through, and he obviously deserved his first ever X games gold.
January 2, 2012
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Photos & Captions: Huggy
To bring in the New Year and celebrate the past we are bringing you "New Year's High Resolution" photo galleries from SNOWBOARDER Magazine's senior photographers and staff of their top 10 photos from the 2010-2011 season. To kick things off we are starting with the individual that hand picks every photo that shows up within the pages of SNOWBOARDER Magazine, our photo editor Ryan Hughes a.k.a Huggy. Here is what he had to say about his 2010-11 season:
"I shot with a big variety of crews last winter. That’s one of my favorite things about shooting snowboarding photos, is mixing it up with all the different quirky personalities. There are a lot of comedians in the snowboard industry, and I hope I get a chance to meet them all. Some of the locations I photographed last year included North Carolina (where I got busted by cops more times than I ever had in my life), Minnesota (where I was entertained by Johnny Lazz and LNP), and Revelstoke, Canada (where I had the best pow of my life)." - Huggy
December 19, 2011
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Gnarly put together this awesome edit for everyone to enjoy. Thanks Gnarly... and Active.
December 10, 2011
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Red Bull Plaza is now open to the public at Bear Mountain. Check out our full coverage of their new setup right here.
December 9, 2011
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Another Free Goods Friday is here. This time with 686. See how you can win a bunch of new gear.
December 9, 2011
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Words: Laura Austin
Photos: Huggy & Mike Yoshida
Last night we were lucky enough to get an exclusive first look at Bear Mountain’s new Red Bull Plaza. And no we didn’t just look at it, be we got to watch the likes of Forest Bailey, Chris Bradshaw, Lucas Magoon, Daniel Brown, Will Bateman, Pat Lynch, Brett Wilkinson, and Big Mike take full advantage of this urban style setup under a full moon the night before it opened to the public. Let’s just say you are going to want to check this thing out for yourself.
Nestled off to the side of Bear’s chair 9 is what we would consider the “street scene”. This area contains 13 different setups, 21 features all together, and infinite ways to hit them. The Red Bull Plaza includes a 30’ marble ledge, two 20’ concrete rails, three ledges, two banks, a kink building wall, building wall with a ledge attachment, four stair sets, two down rails, bleacher box, planter ledge box and a down-flat-down ledge wall. Forest Bailey was definitely taking advantage of what all the new setup had to offer. “It’s sick as a whole because you can choose tons of different lines and it’s basically like having a skatepark in the snow.”
This zone is definitely different from your typical resort experience. “It’s a place you can just come and hang out.” According to Bradshaw. “If there’s crowded liftlines you can just bring your backpack with some snacks and hang out and hike with all your buddies.” Which is definitely nice, you don’t have to worry about people on the lift, or a peanut gallery at the base watching your every move.
Clayton Shoemaker, Director of Youth Marketing and Park Development for Big Bear Mountain Resorts, said they had a plan for this setup over a year ago. They wanted to take all the Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails features and put them in one compact area for the public to enjoy. And thanks to Red Bull they were able to turn this vision into reality. “It isn’t just features in a straight line,” said Shoemaker. “There are ways to connect 3,4,5 features in a row. It’s a way to bring the urban feel, that the guys are out there filming on, to the mountain.”
Each year they plan to do more and eventually create a “mock city” as Shoemaker put it, with permanent features and all they have to do is come in and put snow around it. But without getting to far ahead of ourselves, The Red Bull Plaza is already changing the face of what mountains are capable of putting together. The public can now take the things they only see pros do in movies and try it within a well-maintained set up without worry about the cops busting them for trespassing.
November 30, 2011
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Red Bull released this profile on team rider Forest Bailey. He is a professional snowboarder... we guess. Give it a watch and check out all the footage from Given's latest movie "One".
November 26, 2011
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Givin shreds Boreal in Tahoe!! The whole crew came out for this "One", only missing Wyatt as he was recovering from his avalanche last season. To all who wondered about "One" being on iTunes for download, this edit shall shed light on that subject. It's a Givin!!!
November 14, 2011
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Two different edits from laps at Keystone. Zak Hale and Forest Bailey. Which one do you like better?
October 5, 2011
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686 has released this edit of Forest Bailey where the rider known for urban antics and not so urbane aesthetics takes his board control to Mt. Baker and beyond. Opening clip is an ft bs 5. Not bad for the narrow stanced jibber. Also included is Forest sending the Superpark 15 hip, some tube town trickery and believe it or not a double cork attempt. For more of Forest check out One by Givin'.
September 26, 2011
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Forest Bailey is up next for our Video Guestbook. See what he has to say about going to a Dead show at the age of 5, experimenting with the back door, and much more. Don't miss him in Givin's new movie "One".
September 19, 2011
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Here is the recap and review of Givin's first flick "One".
September 16, 2011
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Givin's debut video "One" premieres tonight in Laguna Beach, CA. Forest Bailey, Keegan Valaika, Jonas Michilot, Wyatt Stasinos and crew are going to surprise a lot of people.
August 19, 2011
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The New Gnu Website launched www.gnu.com With it comes Gnu Snowboards "Club Weird" episode one welcoming special guest Forrest Bailey with host Captain Wierdo and the Wheel of Weird! Watch it at http://www.gnu.com/videos/forest-bailey/ Forrest is fresh off his America¹s Next Top Pro model High Ollie contest victory where Banana Pickle technology out performed and out popped all the competition including some cambered boards that called themselves manly. Expand your mindŠand be sure stay tuned to "Club Weird" to catch all the upcoming episodes with the rest of the Gnu team. Get weird! Experimentation is healthy your parents did it.
August 31
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