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It was a much needed ride day before the family arrives in town for my surgery, so I headed to A-Basin to finally end the season there.  It was great timing since today the Lib Tech Denver office peeps were having their end of season shred party on the mountain which is always a good [...]

My last day at A-Basin has arrived and today was a great day to end out the season.  I stayed in Breckenridge last night and scoped up the halfpipe but it’s no longer rideable so that wasn’t an option for today.  This morning I met up with the crew (Lauren, Adrian and Xavier) for breakfast [...]

A-Basin is the last resort standing in Colorado now and quite the popular resort for a mix of snowboarding and hanging on the beach (drinking and BBQ’ing). It’s a 1.5 drive from Steamboat so I made the trek to meet up with Lauren, Adrian and Xavier to ride for the day. The sunshine came out [...]

Got a good night’s sleep last night and woke up ready for some snowboarding at Blackcomb today.  Late season conditions are good at Whistler/Blackcomb but you also tend to sleep in a little later as the conditions soften up so it’s less ice and more fun.   I love being in Whistler Photo:  Kendra  I [...]

During the winter, you spend your weekends getting up earlier than you do for work in order to get the fresh powder.  As the season winds down, you find yourself sleeping in till the sun warms the snow up.  At least for me that’s the case and I’m on the same schedule as my friends. [...]

Supposedly some snow is on the way and I definitely hope so…but since there hasn’t been new snow, I’ve been lapping the park and pipe.  I’m not good at park so this has been an interesting week. Definitely not Champagne powder I tried to video myself riding over a barrel but that didn’t come out, [...]

It was such a nice day and hard to turn down not going outside to ride.  Right now since it’s spring break we have more people in town than usual, so lines are longer.  Even on my ride break, I decided to just lap park chair.With no cloud in sight, the weather was warm out. [...]

Since it’s been sunny and slushy on the mountain, my ride breaks have composed of lapping the park and pipe which means staying on lower mountain. Conditions have been kind of grim, dirt is showing through in certain spots and we definitely need snow to get some better coverage.   I spent today on the [...]

I wasn’t sure if I would make it on the hill but it was a good day to break from work, enjoy the sun and lap the superpipe.  Winds were high so the gondola was not running by the time I got up and other chairlifts were closed but luckily the park chair and Christie [...]

What a difference from when I left Colorado, to Washington riding to back home to Colorado with the change in snow. Luckily for me my Washington trip offered up fresh snowfall when I was there but when I came back to Colorado the sun had been hitting the mountains with a warm spell. I finally [...]