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For four years I lived in a beautiful mountain town called Steamboat Springs, Colorado and I still consider it an amazing place to live. The mountain offers up some of the best aspen riding on more mellow terrain, the town has a great relaxed vibe and everyone loves to be in the outdoors. I was [...]

Since I moved to Steamboat 4 years ago, I’ve lived in the same house with my dog that overlooks the Yampa Valley.  Roommates have come and gone, friends have joined along for the ride but I knew eventually it would could to an end.  Steamboat has been paradise in many ways; powder days were a [...]

It’s closing weekend here in Steamboat and while tomorrow might be the last day for snowboarding, today was my last day at Steamboat since i’m going to skip out on tomorrow’s festivities to ride Breckenridge for a demo day. The sky was blue most of the day, warm temps on the mountain and slushy soft [...]

Today was the last ride break of the season, ride breaks are the reason I can get up on the mountain even though I work a full time Monday to Friday normal job.  It means instead of lunch, I can shred and I’ll definitely miss having that luxury out of the office each day. I [...]

It’s hard to believe that in just a matter of days the mountain will close, my ride breaks will become lunch breaks and the snow will start to melt quickly bringing out colors other than white.  I’m sad that the season is ending but also ready for Steamboat to close which lets me move on. [...]

It’s hard to believe that even in April there are Winter Storm Warnings but last night we received another winter storm rolling through Steamboat delivering a powder day on the mountain this morning. During the winter on a powder day you have to get to the gondola early to get in line and start getting [...]

This has been one interesting season for conditions on the mountain, there’s no guarantee to what the weather or snow will be like until you get up on the slopes.  Today was a really slow snow day on lower mountain, almost warm but not fully bluebird out and really hard to judge speed in spots, [...]

Just a week left till Steamboat closes which means enjoying the mountain as much as possible while it’s open.  This weekend was my last weekend that I plan to in Steamboat for April so it was good to take it easy, get to the mountain when I felt like waking up and just enjoy the [...]

As the snow was coming down in Steamboat Springs, skiers and snowboarders gathered just above the base area for Steamboat’s first and only Rail Rodeo this season.  The jam style competition was put on by Steamboat, Akinz, Ellis Snowboards, Volkl, Marker, Urbane and RideSports.  I headed off the mountain to grab my camera and head [...]

I came in late last night from dinner at the Carrigan house and ended up crashing hard till this morning.  During my hours of sleep, it snowed in town and delivered a couple new inches on the mountain that just got better as the snow kept falling during the day. I’ve been rocking the C2 [...]