At the Denver airport, sad to have finished my last day of snowboarding.  It's been seven hours, but I am still reeling from the last few amazing runs Dan and I did today.  Record air, record confidence, and a sheer feeling of pure awesomeness from accomplishing goals that seemed so far out of reach not too long ago.  We were flying down screaming ( Read more... )

One thing Hayes and Jess do every season is take a ski lesson for a half a day or so. They say they always get something new out of it ( Read more... )

I've been quite busy at work lately, so I've been looking forward to my vacation in Salt Lake City, which is where I'm posting now, taking a break from the snow ( Read more... )

Went to Stowe for the first time with my new snowboarding buddies Liz & Kelly. Kelly's co-worker James Bond joined us. That's right, his name is James Bond. Except I think his last name is actually spelled Bhond or something. We joined another friend Patrick from Boston, who is pretty good. I did my first semi-big jump, a tiny rail and a huge ( Read more... )

What a weekend ( Read more... )

Too busy to post details, so I will sum up.

I love Grenoble.
I love French people and the way they love food.
I love snowboarding.
I love the Alps.
I love warm wine.

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Last night I bought a snowboard and bindings from someone in the New York snowboard group. He won the snowboard on a raffle, but already had a couple of other boards, so he decided to part with it. The snowboard is from a new company called Launch, so the quality is yet to be determined, but the bindings, Salomon SPX Pro's, alone seem to make the ( Read more... )

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