I’m up butt-cracklin’ early to dawn patrol, sipping on this here video wondering where all that fluffy white stuff is at.
Category Archives: Snowboarding
Ride for Free at Heavenly until April 25th!!
If you buy a $339 season pass for 2010-2011 you can ride free at Heavenly from now until when they close on April 25th.
Ride Prophet 2009 Snowboard Reviewed
Snowboarding is not a cheap hobby, especially for an aspiring degenerate living in the flatlands of Illinois. For that and a myriad of other equally limp excuses I managed a 15 year hiatus between our daily hill bombings after school at 4 Lakes in Lisle and when my wife finally inspired me enough to get [...]
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6 Things to Know Before Making Your Snowboarding Trip to SLC
I’ve been going out to Salt Lake City pretty consistently for the past 5 years, at least once a season, to indulge in what could arguably be the best snow in the world. Over that time I’ve learned a couple things that are worth sharing. It’s cheap to fly there. Real cheap. Typically it’s about [...]
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Ski Goggles With Embedded Camera
Liquid Image had ski goggles with an embedded video camera on display at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in January. It’s run on an SD card that can hold around 2 hours of video or 16gb of data. They’re pricing out at $150 which makes me a bit suspicious of the quality of the [...]
I’m Going to SLC!
Be back soon… maybe.
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Tahoe Is Rad As Hell, But It’s Time For Us As A Species to Talk Seriously About Gassing the Hippies Once and For All
I knew when we saw the married couple of hasidic midgets at the airport that magic was in the air, real and ancient magic, the kind of magic that builds nations, changes lives and alters the course of human history. Those little buggers in their devotional doll clothes had clearly been sent by central casting [...]
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