Snow is a soluble elixir. At elevation it clings to the steep and jagged, providing the structure for a backcountry session. When warm air forces it to come unglued, it feeds healthy rivers of new opportunity. In Northern British Columbia, during late winter through early spring, these two worlds coalesce. And although snowboarding and flyfishing run at divergent altitudes, they follow a similar timeline. It’s this phenomenon that flows through Alignment, Eric Jackson’s new film that invites his two loves into the room for a full season of brilliant equilibrium building.
Nestled just south of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, in the one-brewery town of Terrace, British Columbia, I find Jackson holed up in an A-frame at Skeena Spey Lodge, steps away from the broad Skeena River. It’s March, and Jackson has…
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Transworld Snowboarding (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018