The Japan Journals blokes, in their own words, “left the best till last” and so the last webisode of the season sees the boys sign off with a bang as they score awesome pow north of Niseko.

Loading themselves into the Rhythm Van, a crew comprised of Nick Hyne, Nick Brown, Connor Harding and Alex Stewart hit the blacktop from Niseko as far north as the Japanese roads allowed. Pitching up in Wakkanai – a mere 5 hour ferry ride from Russia – they get busy with one foot shenanigans and double corks all while scoring blower pow. As they say, it was “an epic road trip to see off the 2013 season.”

Look forward to next year’s, boys.

The good blokes behind the Diaries Down Under series have pitched up in Nippon for the season and are dropping a succession of webisodes from the Land of the Tit Deep Pow. This first installment sees the boys take night shred to a whole other level…

Featuring Nick Hyne, Nick Brown, Connor Harding, Alex Stewart and Dane Tiene as they take night riding to another level – riding the deepest snow earth has on offer, in the middle of the night! An array of portable lights unlock locations and features that have never been seen at night before. This episode will leave you hankering for powder and have you wondering why you aren’t in Japan making the most of the deep stuff.

Springtime hits NZ, and along with some of the anticipated slushy fun sessions the Diaries Downunder boys also luck out to score some of the best pow of the season in the Queenstown area…

Springtime’s not only about slashing slush in wifebeaters – often you can find epic snow with way less crowds if you know where to look. These Kiwi boys certainly know where to go when it’s on, and they also know someone at the resort who can build them a solid booter in the middle of the bunny run to boot. If we ever head to NZ we’re hooking up with this lot – seem’s like they be running tings down under.

Spring is a season that cannot be tamed or predicted. Spring is the king of surprises and the tail end of the snow season this year in Queenstown was no exception!

In between beautiful warm, blue sky days we had storms come through that delivered some of the best powder days of the season! 
In this episode we go and make the most of the surprise powder that Spring seems to so kindly deliver – even when we think the slush has finally become the king of late season.

We make the most of the slushy spring landings and get a progression session happening after hours at The Remarkables. 
A great end to another season of good times here at the bottom of the world!

Music Credit 
Band: Black Hat Brigade 
Song: On Leave 
Produced by: Brightmind Music

Though winter’s knocking at the door of the northern hemi, our Antipodean brethren in NZ are still milking what remains of their own cold months. In this fourth episode the Diaries Downunder crew hit the heli and snowsurf the lesser-ridden south side of the Remarkables and peep some epic landscapes in the process.

In Episode 4, we venture beyond the resort boundaries on one of Queenstown’s most famous landmarks, The Remarkables – the only mountain range in the Southern Hemisphere that runs true North to South.

In search of amazing terrain, untracked powder and to tick one off the bucket list the crew jump in a helicopter and ride the very rarely ridden southern and front sides of The Remarkables. The crew are quick to realise there is a reason why the front side is so rarely ridden. With it’s rugged steep faces disappearing into the lake below the crew are greeted by a stunning sunset that caps off an incredible day in New Zealand snowboarding history.

The Diaries Downunder crew take a different look at the hectic riding at the recent Burton High Fives at Snowpark NZ, and then things get even more out of hand on a gap to down bar. One-foots, frontflips and backside rodeos on. Woo-haa!

Burton High Fives brings top level international riders to Snow Park, New Zealand to take part in insane activities and a contest format that would be hard to mimic in any other part of the world. Hectic car driving, shooting, knife throwing, buggy driving and jet boating combine with one of the most progressive competitions ever. Mark McMorris attempts the world’s first slopestyle triple cork, Stale Sandbech lands a 1440 and Mikkel Bang still puts style first. A must -see!

A big gap to rail then awaits us at Cardrona, built especially for DDU. The aim was to test what exactly is possible when you have an amazing 20 foot jump onto a 30 foot rail. Flips, spins and another crazy episode of Diaries Downunder for you!

Australian Dane Tiene flies into Christchurch from Sydney. The crew then make their way to the centre of Christchurch before testing out a Kiwi classic – the nutcracker ropetow. Staying up at Mount Olympus club field the boys find some of Canterbury’s finest shreddable terrain. Ben Comber, Stef Zeestraten and Nick Hyne show Dane exactly why Mount Olympus and the Canterbury region has gained such a fine reputation.

It’s not often you score a heli to shoot some fun laps in the park, but after an epic mission to the west coast fo NZ for a morning surf, that’s exactly what the Diaries Down Under crew do. Banging way to kick off the new season of webisodes…

The crew – Nick Hyne and Stef Zeestraten – pick up NZ professional surfer Maz Quinn and take him straight up to Snow Park NZ to see how his skills transfer on the snow. The next morning heli tours picks up the boys and flies straight to the West Coast to go surfing, with Maz in his element the snowboarders get shown how it’s done before flying back to Snow Park for a couple of lazy afternoon laps. An epic day!

Watch the latest installment of Down Under shredding, this week with a road trip from Queenstown to Mt Hutt with Pooch, Nick Hyne, Nick Brown, Ben Comber and Jordan Rehrer.

Enjoy and look forward to the Euro season start that is coming closer and closer…

This week Nick Hyne, Stef Zeestraten and Jake Koia are thrown out of a plane 15,000 ft in the air before hitting up The Remarkables for some pre-season jibbing on some specially made features to get the Diaries Down Under crew pumped.