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Whether you are looking for snowboarding gifts for the shredder on your list or if you need to re-up on your personal gear – here are a few of my favorite things.

1) Leatherman Hail + Style Snow Tool: My friend gave me one of these last season and I’ve used this more than any other gift that I received. This is the #1 thing that I’m giving to friends and family this year.

Leatherman partnered up with another original, USA-proud company, Signal Snowboards® to bring you pocket tools designed to crank on a binding, open a beer, tune your board or stash your ear buds. So go ahead clip ‘em on and put ‘em to the test, these travel-friendly (yup they’re TSA-compliant) Portland, Oregon originals are built to last, complete with a 25-year warranty.

Retails at $46.95

Find it at: store.verticalurge.com/leatherman-hail-style-ps-snow-tool-black/

2) Transform Lucifer Snowboarding Mitts: Evil? Controversial?
Bad Karma? Depends on what you believe – I guess. I just think that these are unique and something that you won’t see everyone else wearing! Super hard to find if you live in the States though.Lucifer

Retails at €69.99

Find em at: www.blue-tomato.com/en-GB/product/Transform-The+Lucifer+Mittens-272171/

3) Airblaster Hoodless Ninja Suit: The Ninja Suit is awesome, but the hood is overkill on most days and I’ve always cut the bottom quarter of my long underwear off (shants) to keep the material out of my boots. The Hoodless Ninja suit is the perfect set of long johns – no cutting required.

Hoodless Ninja Suit Retails at $109.99

Find it at: www.myairblaster.com/collections/mens-ninja-suits

4) Hovland Hatch Snowskate: I know you took the trucks off of your first skateboard and tried to ride it in the snow… Surfing and skateboarding don’t have bindings – make your local hill fun again by freeing your feet!

The Hovland Hatch all-mountain snowskate is built to handle whatever your favorite resort throws at you. Hit boxes and rails, cruise groomers, attack steeps and launch hits — this skate does it all.

Retails at $349.00

Find it at: www.hovlandsnowskates.com

5) Shred Soles Snowboard Boot Insoles: Yeah, it’s a bit of a shameless self promotion, I know, but comfort in your snowboard boots is a priceless gift!

Innovative ShWedge™ taper gives better performance by realigning ankles, knees, and hips to natural and balanced riding posture.

DynArch is engineered specifically for snowboarding to maximize arch support and minimize strain and injury.

Deep-well heel cup with firm high-riser sidewalls stabilizes heel and reduces friction from lateral foot movement.

Retails at $44.99

Find at: www.ShredSoles.com

Have you ever considered Snowboarding, Skateboarding and Surfing all in the same day? You’d have to live in California or Washington right? Wrong.

Back in January, Paul Horning and myself set out to do all three from our home-base in south central PENNSYLVANIA!

It was not the best day of skateboarding, surfing or snowboarding – plus there was tons of drive time in between each activity, but it was awesome to successfully pull off all three in the same day!

Paul’s summary of the day:

On 1/12/14 Nate and I went on a mission to skate, surf, and snowboard in the same day. We left my house in PA at 6am. We arrived at Ocean Pines Skatepark in Ocean City, MD at 9:30am and skated for about 45 minutes before heading to Assateague National Seashore, MD. We hit the beach at 11am. The waves were really fun with an air temp of around 50 degrees and water temp off 44. We surfed for about 3 hrs before heading back to PA. We got home and cleaned out the truck, enjoyed a beer and put on our shred attire. We live about a mile away from Liberty Mountain Resort so we were on the snow by 7pm to get in some night riding. We met up with a few other friends for some fun, fast, laps. We ended the night with a parking lot beer for our friend Anthony who just turned 21. I was home enjoying a cold one by 9pm. It was a good bit of driving but we usually go surfing anyways so it wasn’t much more than we’re used to. It goes to show that you don’t have to be a world class skater, surfer or snowboarder to have fun doing it. Who says you have to live on the west coast to do all three in the same day?! I look forward to more of this in the near future! Music by Beer Boys, Arvada, CO. TUCKLOVE!

Why am I posting about skateboarding and surfing on a snowboarding blog? Check out the previous post on 3 simple things to do over the summer to help build foot strength for snowboarding: 3 Simple Things

Have you ever completed the trifecta? Is it on your bucket list? Let us know in the comments below.

Pray for snow.

-Nate

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