If you got your hands on the June 2010 issue of Vice Magazine, the fact that there are snowboarders gallivanting around in the snow baring all that their mama gave em' probably doesn't surprise you since most of these photos were featured back then.

Actually, I guess that ending up in their birthday suit in public is pretty common with pro snowboarders. However, the reason behind it this time is not losing a bet or being extremely intoxicated.

Winter's Children, a book by Jim Mangan, is a "celebration of the pure, naked joy that burns at the heart of snowboarding. Tellingly absent from this unusual series of photographs is the brash consumerism that not merely clutters, but absolutely defines the snowboarding industry today."

A group of riders got together for this fine art and photography project that Mangan came up with and got to experience what seems to be one hell of a liberating experience. Sean Black, Peter Line, and Laura Hadar are among the few who stripped down and strapped in to take part in this "playful hybrid of youth culture and nature photography" as well as a physical commentary on "the commercial snowboarding industry."

Wrapped only in wool blankets - true to hippie form, the group took on Mother Nature and the surrounding powder and peaks. The photos are raw and real and genuinely show the enjoyment that everyone experienced. They also genuinely show how hairy some people really are.

How many people can really say that they did a naked method over a bonfire in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm thinking this book might be starting a trend...watch out.

Winter's Children will be hitting the bookshelves December 2010.