Jonathan Tollefson

With day snowboard passes reaching $40-45, and season passes climbing over $500 dollars, it is hard to see why people love the sport of snowboarding so much.  What a lot of people don’t know is that we who love to snowboard find creative ways to board without going to the hill.  One way many of us get on the snow more is by getting off the couch, going outside, we pick up a shovel, and build ourselves a backyard snowboard park.

I love creating and building different snowboard obstacles in the backyard, or anywhere else that you can find some open land.  One of my favorite hits to build is a simple wall.  The only materials you need are a couple saw horses, a 4′X8′ piece of plywood, and a little bit of the white fluffy stuff.  From there the options are endless, and the the tricks you can preform are amazing.  This winter get off your butt and go for it.  I have just given you one of the best ways to Board the Midwest All day Everyday!

For many of us there are at least two different seasons throughout the year, snow season and water season.  I believe the general population calls them summer and winter.   In the picture above you will see one of the best backyard snowboard parks that my friends and I have ever built.  What I want you to ask yourself is, “how did we come up with this set up?”  Let me tell you, it did not come to us over a cold wintery night; however that is all that it takes.

This idea/design was crafted over the summer and into the winter months.  Everyone can have this and everyone should have a backyard snowboard park of their own.  It is easy, it is fun, and you can create anything you want.  Wait, I didn’t mention the best part about it.  It is completely free to hit all winter long.  If you want to  improve and take your game to the next level, you need to start thinking about the park you are going to build in your backyard right NOW.  It is going to take work and if you want a pimp rail to soup up your park, contact Board Sport Terrain Design.  They will build anything you can think of.

Materials are everywhere.  So think big, go big, and build yourself an epic backyard snowboard park.  You won’t regret it!