Riding Journal

Breckenridge 4/19/09

Last night was my first night back to Steamboat in a couple days so lots of laundry and finishing up packing my snowboard bag (hopefully under 50lbs) for Whistler tomorrow. This morning I slept in and hit the road to ride Breckenridge with friends. Today was Breckenridge’s closing day on the mountain.

The storm from Friday and Saturday passed through, making today a bluebird and warm day on the slopes. The first lap was made with Joel and Bru as they were ending the day.
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Bru showing off his gaper gap
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I met up with Tj, Steph and a couple others to make laps. I noticed this guy wearing the nacho libre wrestler mask and Steph got in the photo with him. The guy rode like that down the mountain.

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A ducked rope and found ourselves in some leftover powder to ride and then had to get back under.
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I got the Park Rocker to be my spring board for short runs at A-Basin because it’s just a lot of fun. Today I ended up riding it to check it out on the mountain, it got some park and pow and groomer riding in. I had a couple tail press moments where the nose kept wanting to come up and had to pull it back down before I lost it.

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Spring slush and riding low.
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Tj’s ollie
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At SIA I met Mascha the chick behind Shredunion.com and made plans to ride today since I missed friday shredding with them.

Mascha and myself on the chairlift
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Mascha riding
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On the last run, Tj tried to ride onto the power box covered with snow. He made it up but not high enough.

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Took up the last chair with Mascha and Sarah to make it back to my truck and ending the day on a good note. Bummer to see Breck closing with so much snow, but I know the halfpipe is hikeable!

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