Sun Peaks Resort is a nearby ski and snowboard hill. Mammoth is a ski, snowboard, and snowmobile mountain during the winter months. The Mont Tremblant Resort also has extensive shopping for ski and snowboard enthusiasts. The mountain forms part of a major ski and snowboard resort. Sintered ultra high molecular weight polyethylene materials are used as ski and snowboard base materials. Magine Snowboards has developed a snowboard that incorporates flax linen. Jacobellis has snowboarded competitively in Snowboardcross, Snowboard Slopestyle, and Snowboard Halfpipe competitions. Billabong is the name of an Australian brand of sportswear for surf, skateboard, and snowboard. Wrist-guards are sold in skateboard, snowboard and sporting goods stores. Turning is accomplished similarly to a skateboard or snowboard. A freeboard is a specialist skateboard designed to closely simulate the behaviour of a snowboard. This is a good method for setting up the snowboard stance for a new snowboarder. The Freestyle and Snowboard events were held in neighbouring Valmalenco. The snowboard he used was a Sims snowboard ridden by founder Tom Sims. He worked on a Ruby on Rails website for a snowboard company.