2014/2015 Snowboarding
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- mg330
section_014 - My first trip was January 1996 and I too was a good skateboarder going into it. I picked it up pretty well, but had some tough falls, and was definitely out of shape. I did yearly trips from 1996 to 2001.
Didn't go for 10 years until discovering a group in Chicago that goes to the local places in Illinois and Wisconsin. The last four years I've gone 15 days, 15 days, 13 days, 20 days. In those four years I've done two 3-4 day trips in Colorado and 4 days in Utah.
I can say this about progressing: the more you do it, the better you get at it, no doubt. I am 100x the snowboarder I was in college since I go so regularly. I think better gear helps too - so much quality gear out there these days. I've not had too many hard falls in the past few years. Nothing that really worked me over. I'm very confident on double blacks in big mountains, love steep tree runs and based on the Ski Tracks app, I'm usually able to ride in the 35-50 mph range when a run allows for it. Fastest I've gone was 51mph. Such a great rush.
- bliznutty0
- Small town there, what do you do for work?cbass99
- Did you find it took a while to get used to riding with the GoPro on a pole?mg33
- uuuuuuuuughhh get me out of this box
Al_dizzle - i literally just started snowboarding with a gopro.. and used the gopro studio to make vids. was incredibly intuitive and fun to makebliznutty
- intuitive and fun to make. which now makes me want to make more vids!bliznutty
- @cbass - i'm a software engineerbliznutty
- mg330
- instrmntl0
This is embarrassing. What happened?
this is probably my last qbn post.
- dbloc0
crappy season.
- Miguex0
^
Right?
I actually got to ride thick-ass pillows with no tracks on them. First time in deep snow in my life. But I went to Taos on like one of the best weeks of the season so far.I'm bummed that my local mountain is almost dried up, I want to go one more time before winter is over
- moniker0
Didn't want to start a 2015/16 thread just yet, but came across this and thought I'd share here:
http://yobeat.com/2015/08/24/an-…
Also... Just bought my first new board in 4 years. A Lib Tech XC2 TRS. First board I've ever had that wasn't pure camber. Pretty excited to get at it.