"Although I'm a snowboard instructor, I much prefer skiing when I am competing, " he said.
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Gates, who cannot be much of a snowboarder based on his physique in the joke reel, demonstrated the Surface by customizing a snowboard with a few swipes of his fingers.
In the days when nobody had ever heard of a snowboard, he spotted one at a general store, requested and received it for Christmas, and began a series of family trips involving backcountry camping.
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In fact, White taught me how to snowboard at a media event that Sony 989 Sports put on back in 1999 at Beaver Creek, Colo.
But Aspen is also a great ski and snowboard destination for all abilities, one of the few that is equally appealing to rank beginners, advanced experts, singles, couples, and families.
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James Craig, a manager at the Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre, said that ironically the slope is designed to be used when real snow falls.
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The wins have moved the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association considerably closer to a goal that, when first set in 1997, seemed like a fairy tale: to produce the best Alpine team in the world.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is Buttermilk, an entire mountain focused on learning, with a plethora of beginner and intermediate terrain, very family friendly and simply one of the best places on earth to learn to ski or snowboard, with both great terrain and a top quality ski school.
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The gold was Slovakia's first at a Winter Games, as Kuzmina went one better than 2006 snowboard cross silver winner Radoslav Zidek.
Loveland Pass, at an elevation of 11, 990 feet, is popular among backcountry skiers and snowboarders, and on Saturday, Snowboard Magazine had promoted the Rocky Mountain High Backcountry Gathering there for a day of gear demonstrations and shredding.
Wilson, a 54-year-old father of five, started his career with an outerwear company called Westbeach Snowboard in 1979.
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