Joe “Bro” Fontaine

DOB: 5/14/1987

Age: 22

Roots: Manchester NH

current home: Incline Village, NV

Favorite places to ride:  Boreal/ Northstar / Sierra at Tahoe/ anywhere with creative terrain and good snow.

Quiver: MIP 155 DTX for jibbing, MIP 155 MTX for park, Superpark 159 DTX for Backcountry.

Stance: Regular  15/-15 24.5” centered

Snowboard influences: Shane Flood, Jamie Lynn, Romain DeMarchi, & my friends.

trick:  crails, grassers, bloody draculas, and backflips all day every day. Hardways and BS rodeos on weekends. 

park/pow/street/big mountain: Park when I’m lazy, pow every time it comes around, street when I’m feeling masochistic, and big mountains starting showing up the further west I drove.

What do you have planned for the winter ahead? Getting radical, avoiding injury, and creating memories with friends. I will also try to get the graphics and media done for Smokin on time, but will undoubtedly fail miserably.  Sorry in advance!

What was your first snowboard?: An O-sin 143ish. I was about 9 years old and I got it on the way home from a hockey tournament in Waterville Valley.  A few years later I quit team sports and started going to Waterville a lot more often, is that irony or just clarity? 

Best Trip: Hiking Tuckerman’s Ravine with Billy B back in the day. Bariloche Argentina to work with SASS this summer was a pretty amazing experience as well. 

Hobbies: Skating, Mountain Biking,traveling, taking care of my dog Bowie, electro nerding, getting hyphy, being weird.

music: Punk Rock, Electro-clash, Remixers, Hip Hop, Throwbacks. DFA1979, the Adicts, Hood Internet.

food: Sushi, Pizza, & MEAT.

movies: Hot Dog, Hot Rod, Wayne’s World 

tv shows: Original TMNT, anything not anime on Adult Swim, and 80% of what’s on Comedy Central. 

If you weren't snowboarding, you would be? Living in Manchester blowing it and saying “wicked pissah” all the time. Thank god for being a lazy snowboard bum right?

other sponsors: US government federal student loan program.