DWD - Where's home, Tom?
TR - Home is Australia's east coast. A place called Newcastle.
DWD - Besides the cost of travel... How rad is it that you can ride pow in the northern hemisphere, then roll back home... and get some winter in Australia. Or visa versa... after the Australian winter is done, knowing that you're all warmed up to head to Japan, North America or elsewhere?
TR - Yeah its pretty rad - Riding in Australia is so much fun, and its pretty similar to the conditions in CA, nice and sunny, with the odd powder day to keep it going. The fact that I get to snowboard all year round is sick!
DWD - You had that cover of Transfer Mag last winter, right? That was shot on a trip to Russia. How'd that trip go?
TR - Yeah, still tripping on that cover, its still surreal. Russia was a lot of fun and definitely eye opening. It was a hard place to get motivated, dealing with -20/30 degrees everyday and bitter citizens, it was a bit of a shock. But Im so glad I went there and it still has so much potential.
DWD - Out of all of your travels, where would the first place you would go back to if you had the chance?
TR - Bear Mountain, it never gets old. I'd like to go back to Helsinki one day aswell, that place is so much fun, most of the stuff we hit was already set up!
DWD - Since you guys are heading into summer... are you hitting the beach, or plans to head north for some more snow in the next couple of months?
TR - I'll be flying out to CA around mid to late January to ride at Bear Mtn again, with a few other sneaky trips here and there. Its my fifth time back to the states and I cant wait, it seems to get better every year. Up until then l'll be next to the beach.
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