FAR LEFT “Frontside 360 swallowtail grab in the Hakuba, Japan backcountry. On this 2015 trip with the K2 team, Tim was a fan favorite—every time we set foot in a resort lodge, someone would ask to take his picture.” Photo: Colin Wiseman LEFT During the summer of 2016, Tim and Hannah rode a tandem bike across the United States, camping at skateparks and other roadside attractions along the way. Here, they take a rare moment sans spandex to hook Hannah up with a skate-skitch. Photo: Eddy Archives This year you’ve been working on a book about splitboarding? We’re doing a project called Split The Difference . It’s a book about any and all things to do with splitboarding. It’ll feature camper cuisine, little tips for when you go split, and locations and maps and art and all kinds of things. The idea is that the proceeds of the book are gonna go to [environmental nonprofit] Protect Our Winters. It’ll show the human-powered experience on a splitboard and also give back to snowboarding. Then we are gonna do a book from our bike trip, and that’s gonna go to another environmental nonprofit. The goal is to just go out and create content, and create these projects that can generate awareness and revenue for correlating nonprofits that are connected to the topic of the project. Like maybe do a surf one with the Surfrider Foundation. Just do what you would do as a professional snowboarder or an influencer or whatever, but do it in a way that we can have a lot of energy behind it because we feel like we’re pursuing something righteous. Do you see that growing and evolving? Is it where it’s gonna go for you from here on out? Long-term, that’s where my stoke is at. And Hannah, the two of us, that’s what gets us excited. Thinking of what we can do with Do Radi-cal in the future, there are a hundred and one options there. There’s just no questioning when we’re doing those projects. It makes sense. Do what you love and believe that it’s gonna turn out good because your heart’s in it. Absolutely. I’ve always noticed that when I do things I truly believe in, those things always succeed. When I’m doing things I’m not sure I believe in, they generally don’t work out that well. Now we’re taking ev-erything that we’ve learned, and we’re just trying to put it in motion. TIM EDDY 083
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