Doo-rag or not doo-rag? That is not the question, but with gansta skiers and fluoro snowboarders on the slopes, has the world of winter sports fashion pulled a backside 180 as snowboarders and skiers swap clothes?

Kicking Horse is one of the newest ski resorts in North America. Famed for off piste powder and an "experts only" attitude, Tom Wilson-North takes a look at this wild stallion, to see if it lives up to the hype…

Like sand, Australians seem to have a habit of getting everywhere. Aussie native Dave Scoppa explores the pros and cons of meeting his fellow countrymen in ski resorts across the world…

There's something quite surreal about being able to view the Mediterranean Sea and the mountains of North Africa whilst strapping on your snowboard. Rob Gray, based in the southern Spanish mountain range of the Sierra Nevada gives a round up of the 2006/07 season...

Matt Barr, Chris Moran and Ewan Wallace have laid lines on mountains that few people will ever lay eyes on. Iran, Lebanon, Greenland, Uzbekistan and Russia are just some of the far flung snowboard destinations they've sampled snow in. We met up with these intrepid snowboard journalists to see if travelling the world to snowboard in exotic ski resorts and then writing about it was officially the best job in the world...

After a long season of working in a ski resort and putting up with the tourists, there is only one thing to do - become a tourist yourself. Dave Scoppa heads deep into British Columbia with a board, beers and some basslines on a snowboarding road trip into interior Canada...

SnowSphere heads north to Scandinavia, to explore inner city snowboarding on Stockholm's slopes of Hammarby Backen, one of Sweden's urban ski areas…

What's it like to give up your country, the lifestyle you love and a dream job in Whistler, one of the most desired locations in the snow sports world, for the love of a woman? Fran Hardy pays tribute to her Canadian Alien...

Part 2 of our season blog series, Ian Fehler reports on the highs and lows of a winter season in Morzine, France...

SnowSphere braves blizzards in the Highlands to get its first taste of snowboarding in Glenshee Scotland, in a search for Scottish powder which results in donating plenty of p-tex to the gods of the Cairngorms... 

Bansko, Bulgaria has been hailed as the next big thing when it comes to skiing and snowboarding. The winter sports media has shouted loud about the large ski area, the extensive freeride possibilities and the low prices that undercut anything in Western Europe. But does snowboarding in Bansko really live up to the hype? Dave Horlock reports...

Editor and founder of SnowSphere Magazine, Sam Baldwin, describes his ongoing affair with a cold hearted lover which has taken him to 9 countries across 4 continents in an ongoing search for snow...

SnowSphere speaks to the legend of Chamonix, Neil McNab - former pro-rider, entrepreneur, student of the mountains and mentor to many a snowboarder...

The SnowSphere crew heads east, to the rust of the iron curtain in search of Slovakian Snow in the Tatras Mountains, and ends up in Poland on a journey to the centre of the Earth…

The first in a series of Season Blogs, we get the inside story of what it's really like to work a winter season. In this introductory post, Ian Fehler and his wife prove that it's not just 18 year old gap year students who can enjoy ski resort life...

Do you call yourself a snowboarder? Yes? So you snowboard for a living? Or do you have all the gear and no idea? What the hell is a snowboarder anyway? SnowSphere takes a look at the reality behind the label...

Join SnowSphere as we head south for an African snowboarding adventure featuring a one legged taxi driver and a number of mules in Morocco's Atlas mountains...

Whether it's whiskey from a hip flask, smoking green in the gondola, or snorting lines of white powder, snowboarders and skiers have been known to dabble whilst on the slopes. We take a look at booze and recreational drugs in snow sports and question the wisdom of their use...

Want to hit the beach after boarding? Fancy some sand with your snow? Rob Gray of Beach and Board Breaks introduces a hot new concept to a cool winter holiday - Viva Espana!

Ever dreamed of travelling the world to teach snowboarding or skiing for a living? Fancy a break from the nine to five, or need a change of direction? Perhaps you just want to add another string to your snow cannon? We hooked up with Rupert Taylor, founder of Nonstop Adventure to find out how...