When you plan a snowboarding trip, you probably don’t think about going to Australia. But maybe you should. Photo: Korua//Screenshot
When one thinks of places to ride snow, Australia isn’t high on the list. When one thinks of places to ride waves, however, Australia is somewhere near the top. But there is a connection between surfing and snowboarding, and the crew at KORUA snowboards headed to Australia to explore it. The edit birthed of the trip you see below is the 12th installment of a series the brand calls “Yearning for Turning.”
“We are stoked to announce our first installation of ‘Yearning for Turning’ south of the equator!” the KORUA team wrote. “‘Yearning for Turning 12 Down Under’ is centered around a trip the crew took to Australia in August of 2025. In classic snow-bum style, we lived out of a van for a few weeks, exploring the connection between snow and surf and even some of the crossover in board designs.”
Korua, a relatively new (well, a little over a decade) brand in the snow space, is making enormous waves. It started out as a group of friends who called themselves “traveling snowboard nerds.” Back in 2012, those pals were in Japan together for some of that world-famous “Japow,” when they realized that snowboards built specifically for deep powder were exactly what they wanted to ride. And so they decided to make them. Now, their lineup is pretty enticing, to say the least. Most of the designs are a mixture of a pow-shape, with sidecut that allows one to carve and take pride in really fun turns.
So basically, they allow for a good time in most any condition. And variable snow conditions are something that you might come across in Australia while riding your snowboard.
The crew started the trip in Thredbo, which lays claim to being “Australia’s best ski resort.” There, they met up with local rider Liam Glass to get his thoughts on some of KORUA’s more surfy shapes.
“After an awesome week in the mountains, we headed to the coast to hunt waves and camp our way north,” KORUA’s caption continued. “Liam is the son of legendary shaper Terry Glass and we spent a few days in his home zone on our trek — which gave us a unique opportunity to dive deeper into some cross-over surf/snowboard designs at the Glass Handcrafts shaping bay.”
It was, as is generally the case with any trip that involves the mountains and the ocean, a good time.
