Snowboard star Mark McMorris is planning a return to competition in December after a devastating crash earlier this year.

The 23-year-old from Regina broke his jaw and left arm, ruptured his spleen, fractured his pelvis and ribs and suffered a collapsed left lung in March when he crashed into a tree in the B.C. backcountry.

McMorris has been medically cleared to get back on his snowboard.

He told reporters on a conference call he's looking at December's Dew Tour event in Breckenridge, Colo., or perhaps an Air and Style event in Beijing earlier that month to make his comeback.

McMorris has won multiple big air and slopestyle titles at the X Games, as well as an Olympic bronze in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics.