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I was planning to stay in Steamboat through the weekend but on Thursday Ryan informed me that Burton would be at Breckenridge with 10-11 gear doing a private demo for the day and I could come swing by to try some of the boards.
I ended up driving down to Breckenridge Friday night to hang out [...]

What a long week it’s been, SIA and then the on-snow, then the death cough…well I’m finally getting back to blog business and thinking about the on-snow demos, writing the reviews up and getting ready to post them starting next week.
SIA is really the time to see all the products but I always wait till [...]

Tuesday was the final and last day of the on snow session but luckily blue skies arrived for a fun day outside to ride some new decks.  Despite the sickness starting to impact me, I made it up for most of the day to get my shred on.

Today’s boards were Roxy Ollie Pop c2 with [...]

Normally there’s a bit of a gap between SIA and the on-snow but this year they held the on-snow for Colorado in conjunction with the show so it was directly following the 4 days of busyness.  I made my way up on Sunday with Joey to Winter Park where we would be staying slopeside in [...]

In November each year there are two days where a range of companies come to Loveland to give shop employees the chance to try out the latest gear.  Each year I attend the shop demo to get a better understanding of what boards you guys want to know more about.  This year I drove down [...]

The trip is winding down and coming to an end with today being the last day of snowboarding before traveling back to Colorado.  This trip hasn’t been about the nightlife, but just enjoying friends company and snowboarding together.  Today we were up early, to pack our gear up and get out of the condo for [...]

Since the Grenade Games Superpipe Finals didn’t start till noon, I hit up the mountain to get to the on-snow demos going on at Whistler Mountain for the morning.  

Here’s my write up on the Grenade Games Superpipe Finals 

The perk of being on the mountain early was I got to enjoy the Peak to Peak [...]

I can look at boards all day during SIA but I really judge them when I take them on snow to see how they ride.  I made the trek down to Keystone to spend 3 full days on snow so I could ride the 2009-2010 gear.  I stayed at Keystone in a condo with a [...]

Well last night was a late night, stayed up partying and went to bed around 2am. This morning was a little rough but after some coffee I was awake and hanging in there.

Here’s the video for day 3 of demos, today was just trying out a couple boards and having fun with friends while [...]

While the rest of the condo had to get up to set up the demo tent, I got a extra little bit of sleep in the morning before I made my way out to the demos on day 2.

Here’s the video for the day, with my friends in the park and getting some demos set [...]