Anticipation…

As our dreams of winter deepen, plenty of snowboard trailers are dropping. A few share potent themes: how mountains connect us and why the future of snowboarding hinges on our ability to protect and understand the places in which we ride

Yūgen is a stunning global snowboard exploration that spanned three years and multiple borders. Across steep couloirs and through pastoral alpine villages, it “explores the connection we as mountaineers and environmentalists share with the natural world.”

Ode to Muir, meanwhile, chronicles a backcountry splitboard journey of Jeremy Jones and Elena Hight through John Muir’s namesake wilderness. In true Jones fashion, they push their physical and mental limits while pondering their wild surroundings. Muir’s famous words, “The mountains are calling and I must go,” among them, narrate the mission.

While those films urge questions about snowboarding’s future, this WRKSHRT film, released in 2016, gives us a window into its untold past.

Find more reasons to get stoked for winter.

Posted from Snowboardmag.com’s “The Blast“