Josh Dirksen Opts Into ‘Zero Travel’ For Film

If snowboarding is considered a form of art, progress is not necessarily about creating the painting faster. 

--Pro snowboarder Josh Dirksen shared the analogy in his recent film segment, which debuted in, Insight. As snowboarding evolves, the sport’s growth is equally about riders honing their own niche, style and terrain.

To point, Dirksen, who has devoted three decades of his life to snowboarding, traded last year’s heli drops, international travel, and contests for the polar inverse: a season of self-propelled snowboarding out his back door in Bend, OR.

The result?

An awesome video slice of Dirksen’s artistic work on natural terrain: 360 mutes boosted off of abstract wind lips, curly q’s carved into crazy fins, and straight shoots down wild half pipes.

“I’ve spent the last year or two noticing that there’s a lot of terrain around my home. I set aside this year to highlight the terrain—what better way to highlight it than to try to ride it,” he said and explained that the proximity of the volcanic ranges to the ocean causes enormous gusts, humidity and precipitation, which ultimately creates the craziest air-blasted terrain he’s seen anywhere in the world.

Rather than rushing home at dusk, he often opted into winter campouts, took advantage of the magic hour and snagged more lines.

Dirksen definitely set the bar for local, sustainable adventure.

Check out a few of the goods that Dirksen packs for multi-day and overnight splitboarding missions.