This season, Snowboy Productions has dealt with seemingly every kind of weather imaginable in their pursuit to build fun setups for snowboarders across the world. Head Honcho Krush Kulesza and his crew of digging misfits battled through ice and below-zero temps at The Loon Project in New Hampshire in January. In early February, Snowboy hosted the rainiest event in their company’s 25-year history, The Orange Grove at Kingvale, CA, an event that most of us had originally expected to be chock-full sunshine and slush.

ABOVE Gigi Ruf tweaking a method at Snowboy Productions’ Mochiyori at Kawaba Resort in Japan. Photo: Stephan Jende

TOP/LEFT Snowboy Productions digger and founder of the We’re All Mental support group and zine, Laura Rogoski. Photo: Stephan Jende

BOTTOM/RIGHT Kaishi Otaba, frontside 360. Photo: Stephan Jende

ABOVE Ichinoshin-Maruyama with a mean lookin’ melon grab. Photo: Stephan Jende

Fortunately, by late-February, when Krush and his crew showed up in Japan, they lucked out with powder aplenty. Snowboy returned to the Land of the Rising Sun for the first time in years to host a freestyle-focused event, Mochiyori, at Kawaba Resort. Mochiyori translates in English to potluck. Judging by the footage and photos that came out of Mochiyori it seems it’s a fitting name, as it looks like every rider in attendance ate and left with figuratively full bellies. They feasted on powder and rails under sunny skies with friends new and old, gathered together with unique yet likeminded individuals for a one-of-a-kind event in one of snowboarding’s meccas. Not a bad way to wrap up the month.

ABOVE Jon Chew hitting a front blunt on one of the many metal features placed throughout the flowing setup built for Snowboy Productions’ event at Kawaba Resort, Mochiyori. Photo: Stephan Jende

TOP/LEFT Photographer Isami Kiyooka looking almost unnecessarily fresh at Snowboy Productions’ Mochiyori at Kawaba Resort in Japan. Photo: Stephan Jende

BOTTOM/RIGHT If the sun wasn’t shining, the clouds were dropping plenty of powder. Conditions at Mochiyori were good, to say the very least. Photo: Isami Kiyooka

ABOVE Party wave! No better way to wrap up a Snowboy Productions event. Except maybe with a stop at one of Japan’s iconic 7-11 convenience stores… Photo: Stephan Jende

Stay tuned for more exclusive coverage from us and Snowboy Productions. In the meantime, see more content from previous Snowboy Productions events here.