Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snowboard instructor Izzy Gura, left, watches as Register-Guard reporter Megan Banta begins to make her way down the hill during a ...

The idea of snowboarding started in 1968, when Sherman Poppen nailed two skis together. Today, it is an Olympic sport.

Michael Lecchino spends his weekends teaching snowboarding, guiding wobbly first-timers down the mountain. He says teaching beginners from the magic carpet rather than the summit has shifted his ...

Growing up in Iowa, I didn’t have many opportunities to try downhill skiing or snowboarding. (Though I did slide around on small Midwest hills on our yearly high school ski trips, where I saw my ...

"Don't be afraid to fall" is probably the best advice I got during a snowboarding lesson at Willamette Pass Resort. By the time I (finally) nailed a heel stop without ending up on my butt and was ...