Anyone Snowboard?

MI-nick wrote: weight on your front foot, steer with your back foot (kind of like a rudder), easy on the sauce until your done for the day...

I like the rudder analogy, Ima use that...but when you say lay off the sauce, that's only until noon, right?

And I promised I'd give the youtube thing a shot, here goes. Try not to scrutinize my form too much, the end's really the fun part...you can tell by my sister's reaction. Unfortunately she cuts the camera off before I start to toss, cause that was not the fun part. At least I covered some distance before my re-entry.

i'm not saying don't drink at all...just try not to get really drunk while you're still strapped in...bad things happen that way...

Your ankles should be good. Snowboard boots allow no movement in the ankle area so I think you'll be fine.

That's good news, thanks for the input guys. We take off for NY next Friday, I'll be sure to post pics and videos if we take any when I get back home.

I promised a recap, just took me a while to get the pics from my girl.

Here's what I learned: I am not good at snowboarding. Yet. I fell 36 times going down the hill the first time (yes, I counted), and nearly got kicked off the mountain by the ski patrol. We did start on Mardi Gras though, which turns out is by far the longest run in the park. By the time we were finished I was much better than when I started, but then again, my flask was also much emptier too. One of my falls was so violent that I broke the high-back off one of the bindings on my buddy's snowboard.

I spent most of my time on my toe-side edge, and found that I had a real problem with trying to transition to the heel-side. It will probably take me a few more trips to get good at switching back and forth between them. It rained all day Saturday, so we actually only made it out on Friday night, which was a little disappointing, but the crew I was with didn't let that get us down.

On to the pics.

Here's the crew right after we arrived at the house on Friday. I'm holding tha drunk stick, the trophy awarded to the individual who succeeds in getting the most drunkest the day before. This trip was its inauguration. It has since been to St Patty's Day, Indians Opening Day, and a B-Day bash in a hotel. I'm not even 100% sure how we took this picture, because everyone's in it.


This is the before shot, just getting laced up to hit the hill. You may notice that both bindings still have the high-back.


Here we are about halfway through the night, the gift shop gave me that ridiculous poncho/trash bag thing with Holiday Valley on the front of it to wear. I thought it would be hilarious to tell my friends I was so good at snowboarding that HV sponsored me and gave me the first thing they could find with their name on it. They didn't believe me. It was also real slippery and made my falls last longer. So bonus.


Our hero at the end of the night. Notice the missing high-back.


Well, not quite the end of the night, we still had business to handle in the hot tub.


Which of course led to snow angels.


And then Saturday it rained and we were sad. But we made up a drinking game to go along with the original Highlander movie. I'll give you a hint, something happened anytime someone said "There can be only one"


I think I'll stick to riding things I have to wear a life jacket for.

Looks like a good time. And good beer. Yuengling......Mmmmm tasty. You cant buy that up around where i live.

   Mike

Those jeans are great, they're made by Jeep and have teflon fibers woven into the denim so they're almost 100% waterproof. I spent 75% of my time on the ground and my knees were the only part of me that got even a little wet.

oh don't worry, it was no secret that I didn't know what I was doing...I didn't make it off the lift a single time without falling.

the hot tub pretty much saved the weekend, without it I don't think the snow angels would have been possible.