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		<title>Shay Update:  Contests &#038; Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know winter has arrived when the sounds outside my house are filled with the snow plow doing the morning drive-by and the quietness of a town covered in snow.  It means waking up a bit earlier, dressing warmer and getting to enjoy shred time on the mountain which is why I live in a resort town. I was expecting December to be a quiet month but some events came up that I decided to attend just before the holidays hit and grounded me back in Steamboat. Here&#8217;s a couple events coming up that I&#8217;ll be attending and it&#8217;s great to see what contests are welcoming bloggers as media. [singlepic id=7007 w=400 h=300 float=] Grand Prix &#8211; Copper Mountain I wasn&#8217;t planning on attending the Grand Prix but an editor from one of the snowboard magazines convinced me I should go so it was hard to say no.  I got my media credential so I&#8217;ll be on the scene capturing the event from the sidelines and seeing how it goes down.  This years Grand Prix is the first Olympic Qualifying event for halfpipe. I&#8217;m actually pretty excited for it, love watching halfpipe and while it&#8217;s scary being around &#8220;real&#8221; photographers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shay Update:  09-10 Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 08-09 season just winded down with a greatseason ending at Windell&#8217;s Camp for their last session.  It&#8217;s been an amazing year of snowboarding and I&#8217;m really thankful that I can ride as much as I do and write about it. I&#8217;m in the final stretch for another year of 12 months a year of snowboarding.  If I hit September then I have rode at least once a month for the last year (my second time doing this). In just 19 days the snowmaking will begin here in Colorado, bringing the winter season one step closer.  Until then there are plenty of snowboard films/premieres to distract me and possibly the chance to start the shred season early on a snow patch. This was the second summer of Industry Profile Interviews and each person I get involved/each interview that comes back I am always stoked to see how they come out.  The season comes to an end later this month, so I&#8217;m wrangling up the last interviews to be completed and I hope you enjoy the stories of these amazing people.  I&#8217;m also working on Summer 2010 Industry Profiles so if you have a recommendation or someone you know who might [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A look back at my 2008-2009 season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was a great season for myself and shayboarder.com, really great actually.  I managed to snowboard a lot this season even while I work a typical 40 hour week job, I spent a lot of time with this blog writing posts, coming up with fun interviews and doing research when I can.  I&#8217;ve learned a lot this year as a blogger, snowboarder and female in snowboarding.  I&#8217;ve started to get past fears and hit the terrain park more often and had a strong year with my knees.  I am happy with who I am, what I do and this blog.    I had fun snowboarding and will hit another 100 day season.  [singlepic id=4837 w=400 h=300 float=] Favorite photo of me this year by Kendra Here&#8217;s a look back at this season.      My stats: First day of the season was at A-Basin and Loveland on October 15, 2008.  They both opened on the same day so I spent the morning at A-Basin then the afternoon at Loveland just down the road. My last day of Colorado shredding was A-Basin on May 19, 2009 (technically I&#8217;ll be hiking this summer to get a last day of CO shredding). That is 7 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve known for 5 months that this time would come and it&#8217;s unfortunate but something that&#8217;s gotta be done. I wrote about the surgery last month in preparation for it because it would end my season early for Colorado.  The surgery is pretty minor, but there are always risks involved and because it&#8217;s near my organs I&#8217;m more nervous about it than I was for knee surgery. Recovery is quick and I&#8217;ll be back to 100% in six weeks.     I&#8217;ll be pretty miserable for the next couple days so be patient with me replying to comments/emails. On a positive note, I&#8217;ll be high as a kite for the next couple days so it&#8217;s probably good that I won&#8217;t be replying to comments/emails. [singlepic id=4845 w=400 h=300 float=] I do want to thank everyone for the support and well wishes. I&#8217;ll use this post to update my recovery. I certainly don&#8217;t want to take over my snowboarding blog with icky chick surgery stuff&#8230;soo just check back here.   Update 5/20/09 3pm:  Well I had surgery today, was at the hospital at 6am and surgery at 7:30am.  I didn&#8217;t even get to countdown because the last thing I remember is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shay Update: Holy Oly, Utah, Whistler</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This winter has been really busy which is great but also a lot of time away from home (also great and sometimes bad). I know my dog Capita misses me and my friend Amy tells me that her heart breaks every time I leave town. It does make me appreciate home when I&#8217;m here. Between keeping a full time job and running off to do snowboard things, I&#8217;ve been on the mountain and enjoying some time off the mountain. I haven&#8217;t rode as much as I&#8217;d like but I&#8217;m still riding, still have a job that pays the bills and looking forward to more riding as the season progresses. I&#8217;m lucky that Colorado has consistent seasons and the longevity is good to have.So I&#8217;ve been planning on some awesome trips to end the season out. Here&#8217;s a look at what&#8217;s coming up and unfortunately the season will end on a bad note but until then I&#8217;m gonna have fun and enjoy it! Washington Shred-A-Thon I was born and raised in Washington state and I&#8217;ll be heading back there to snowboard February 20-28th. I&#8217;m quite aware that I&#8217;ll be leaving light fluffy powder for not the best WA season. I fly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting up there in snowboard years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week someone asked me how long I&#8217;ve been riding. So I started to write down the years, 94-95, 95-96 and so on&#8230;then I added it up and hit 15 years! I&#8217;m only 25 so this amazes me that I have been riding longer than some kids on the hill have been alive.  You would think after 15 years I would be insanely good but that&#8217;s not the case. I enjoy riding for me but I never set out to be the best. Some things come easy now, the natural riding things that took forever to learn. Whether it&#8217;s riding on flat surface, strapping in while standing up or holding a turn, I can ride without thinking of that stuff. It&#8217;s become imprinted into my head just like skating to the chairlift effortlessly. Even after 15 years I still have a lot to accomplishment, I still have to tail block and air out more than 2 feet in the superpipe. People can judge what you have done for snowboarding, when really I think a lot of it is what snowboarding has done for you. Because of snowboarding I&#8217;ve met a ton of friends from around the world that I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe New Year&#8217;s Eve and a good time! I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to what 2009 brings: Friends, snow, trips to snow, snowboarding, blogging&#8230;everything! So just to give an idea of what 2008 was like for the blog: In terms of site traffic, 2008 was a good year. I received 374,376 page loads, 218,455 unique visitors, and 48,368 returning visitors. I had 91 people sign up for the monday newsletters (only one of those is a family member). My blog has reached 131 countries around the world. I made a total of 493 posts in 2008. That&#8217;s about 1.35 posts per day. The most popular posts were the Industry Profiles, Snowboard &#38; Binding Reviews and all the upcoming product posts that came out of SIA and demos. Shayboarder.com now has pictures, writing and videos coming from just me. I&#8217;ve always been the editor, photographer, creative thinker and snowboarder. My friends are great sources of information and I&#8217;m happy they look good on camera. My own personal highlights from this year. Going to the Oakley Photoshoot at Copper, meeting people I am in awe of and being able to take photos and write about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Resting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m actually taking the day off from posting, mostly because I&#8217;m tired and my body is telling me I&#8217;m tired.   I&#8217;ll be back soon with more posts, still more reviews to come and lots to write about. Yesterday&#8217;s injury sucked&#8230;because it wasn&#8217;t a typical snowboard injury.  I was at the hospital watching my curtain neighbors come and go with broken wrists, sprained or torn ACL&#8217;s throughout the night.    My injury can be or might not be serious.  They know I have abdominal pain, they know it&#8217;s not from my appendix.  They have an idea of what might be causing it and that cause can be serious but might not be.  So I&#8217;m kind of in limbo right now. I&#8217;ll know Monday when I can hopefully see my doctor who can run more tests to see what is going on.   So to make things humorous, here&#8217;s a picture of my dog from Christmas.  She&#8217;s swimming through the snow near my house.  She&#8217;s always wearing her doggie jacket because it keeps her warm.  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The coolest gift card ever&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In light of the holidays, gifts are awesome&#8230;I love receiving them and giving them.  For the last couple months, I had helped a reader of the blog pick out gear and answered whatever questions he had. He said he&#8217;d send a gift card I wasn&#8217;t expecting it but accepted the offer.  He also knew I love Starbucks.   Well I picked up my mail and found an envelope from David, the reader I had helped.  I opened it expecting your typical starbucks gift card and found a card designed for Shayboarder!   I am so stoked on it!   This is definitely not a starbucks gift card that I&#8217;ll throw away, this is a keeper!  It even has my coffee on it, Vanilla Latte.   So thank you David for not only a gift card but a really cool one!  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The art of trading &#038; Shay getting philosophical</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I moved to the resort town for the snowboarding, everything else came with it. The people who come here on vacations, pay for the jobs and opportunities. Without them, we wouldn&#8217;t have new roads or new chairlifts. It&#8217;s a double edged sword, because it&#8217;s a resort town&#8230;it&#8217;s not cheap either. You pay a price to live here, while I live within walking distance to the slopes, I also pay higher prices in food, gas, everyday luxuries. Even my Starbucks costs more and that is dependent upon which location I buy it. You learn that with your minimal income, to find other ways to hook each other up. One of the perks is the art of trading. In a resort town, you know which shop guys drink what beer or liquor to get a quick wax job or fix up job on a rock gash. I needed to have my truck looked at twice last month, instead of paying labor for a new friend to check it out I paid in beer. And I hooked up his boss with discount tickets to the mountain. For my new website, I have a friend helping me with the creation of it doing a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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