Skiing verses snowboarding: Does anyone snowboard anymore?

By Rachael Oakes-Ash
Updated July 22 2016 - 1:50am, first published July 21 2016 - 9:54am
Snowboarder rides the powder snow at Falls Creek. Photo: Chris Hocking
Snowboarder rides the powder snow at Falls Creek. Photo: Chris Hocking

There has for the past few years been much talk about the "death of snowboarding". These naysayers of snowboarding claim the original core market growing up and leaving it behind, the rise of better ski technology poached from snowboard technology and the 2008 economic crash have meant the end of the outlier snowboard culture as we knew it.

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