Mark McGettigan, former editor of Snowboard UK, heads to the country of Georgia in search of snowboarding and shots of vodka...

We review Snow-search Japan - the first ski guide to Japan to be published in 15 years - and find it was well worth the wait...

We take a look at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead, the latest indoor ski slope to open in the UK, costing a hefty £23 million to build. But it sounds like it was worth it...

To snowboard the ski resort of Brezovica in Kosovo, or not to snowboard the ski resort of Brezovica in Kosovo, that is the question being banded around SnowSphere HQ right now...

Skiing on the ice planet of Hoth? Snowboarding on Middle Earth? Explore the pleasures of riding deep crystals and hanging with the locals in galaxies far far away…

Check out the latest offering from the SnowSphere Shop - the new Kashmir Rickshaw/Tuk-Tuk  t-shirts - inspired by the SnowSphere team's snowboarding adventure in Gulmarg, Kashmir.

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SnowSphere editor, Sam Baldwin, says his farewells to Snowboard UK, the magazine that inspired thousands of British snowboarders, and speculates on why after almost 20 years, the UK's first and longest running snowboard magazine, has bitten the dust.

To a ski resort in the Austrian Alps and back in a day from the UK – is it possible? Mark Mcgettigan, editor of Snowboard UK magazine went to find out...

Snowboarding Whistler is a 104 page long graphic novel about a group of Australians who leave behind their sunny surf spots to spend a winter season snowboarding in Whistler.

As the first (and only?) graphic novel (comic) about snowboarding in existence, this book deserves a lot of credit for bringing snowboarding to a new medium...

SnowSphere heads to Slovenia for a snow-road tripping adventure, and encounters mad artists, fairly-tale castles, pocket-sized ski resorts, and plenty of pivo...