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“It was just too far to travel,” said Loomis. “It was too hard to coordinate anything and I was kind of bumming about that.” But out of that disappointment came Loomis’s great idea: wooden snowboards.

Snowboard companies need an edge, following a prolonged slump in the industry. Participation in the sport dropped 28 percent from 2003 to 2013, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.

The results from the 17th Annual Good Wood Snowboard Test have been carefully calculated and the best snowboards of 2015-2016 have been selected. These winning decks are featured within the pages ...

Tim Canaday keeps an old wooden snowboard in his office at the Never Summer Industries factory as a reminder. The board, fit for a history museum, has rubber straps for bindings and metal fins ...

Wooden skis slice through the fresh powder. As the man picks up speed, he smiles and whispers a prayer of gratitude: “This is a perfect day.” It’s a moment that Jeff Thompson often envisions.