Ask anyone who rode in the '80s what was on their feet, and you'll usually get the same answer. To celebrate our new collab with SOREL, First Tracks goes back to those trailblazing days. As Dave Hatchett puts it, "snowboards had been invented, but snowboard boots hadn't." Riders made do with what they had, and most of them laced up in Sorels.
First launched in Canada in 1962, the iconic Caribou™ was a wardrobe staple for thousands of Americans living in the colder states. By the time snowboarding came along, a boot built for shoveling driveways had become the natural choice for skate kids who wanted to bone out grabs and bring their own style to the snow.
Shot around Lake Tahoe, the spiritual home of freestyle, the film tracks down some of the riders who were there at the start. Chris Roach, Mike Basich, Dale Rehberg and more recall duct-tape fixes, lift bans, and the tricks they borrowed from skateboarding and never gave back.
Current team riders Cooper Branham, Jed Sky and Sebby K join the legends on the hill to rediscover the boot that birthed snowboarding.
