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hile half of New Hampshire was in a state of emergency without power, a few brave skiers and snow shralpers gave mother nature the finger and made their way to Whaleback and Steez Magazine’s Up the Ante to throw down some sweet preseason moves. The last time I made the trek to Whaleback it was a similar preseason event right after they built their new hubba. My fresh gear got thrashed with mud, there were a million kids, and snow was a scarce commodity. This time around it was a whole different story. With the completed Hubba set up, a 25-foot booter, an up down box line, and a snow making pipe that reached for the sky, the stage was set for the competitors to battle for the cash prize and claims to fame for the day. The advanced division was where it was at. The format was 20 minutes per division jam style. Most versatile and consistent skiers and riders would walk away with tons of swag and high fives all around. Wide-eyed and in need of a change of underwear, Chase Brooks took first for the skiers, stomping a super smooth backflip and laying claim to being the only one to conquer the vertical snowmaking pipe. On the snowboard side it was the battle of brothers for first, with Jason Melanson barely edging out his brother Justin. It was so close we almost had them brawl at the award ceremony to decide the winner. For a preseason event, Whaleback really had their act together and I left impressed. It was a great event with awesome people making things happen. A few side notes from the trip: If you take a number “2” in the farthest stall from the door you’ll find yourself in a very uncomfortable situation. The left lane is for PASSING only. If you mix half coffee, half hot chocolate, milk and sugar, you have the best drink on the planet, the Dunkachino. Lastly, British dance beats are definitely a bit strange...seriously. 6

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1. Makes sure girls are watching at top of the park, and when a significant amount of beezys are in place, drop in switch. Trick Tip 2. Approach the jump switch, when you get to the tranny of the jump, After the get ready to set for the rotation.

Switch 3. Hit the lip and pop letting your feet out in front of you, then follow with your body. with Shea Flynn flawless ride away After you pop, bring your knees to your Cork 540 chest and reach for your grab. You should cork at this point.

stop and wait for 4. Follow the remaining spin around looking over your leading shoulder and hold your grab all the way around.

the cheekys. 5. When you spot your landing make sure you stay forward. A lot of times with corks you’ll land back seat so you want to avoid this.

6. Stomp down with some swagger. After the flaw- less ride away, stop and wait for all the cheekys that are going to flock to you. Make sure you have your cell phone out and ready for numbers. What makes a 382 event different? pk:

A 382 contest is different because we are Weekend with in it strictly for the riders, we don’t profit off anything we do financially and we really just trypm: to draw the attention of sick riders and The help them get further while having fun with their friends. 8 bl: We focus the judging on creativity, style, and technicality, not degree of rota- tion and how big your name is. Judging is REALLY REALLY important to us. Kids are out there throwing down (not to mention paying an entry fee) and the main reason any contest goes sour is be- causeHow the far judges has blow itit, come?getting drunk, beingpm: cool guys, that’s not us at all.

It’s come all the way from a idea 4 years ago while attending an MSP movieFuture to one plans? of the premiere east coastbl: events in it’s third year.

What is 382? It just keeps growing, and that’s Brandon Lohnstein: bl pm: Peter Kukesh: pk what we want to continue to do. Patrick Melvin: pm We’re bringing in a lot of good rid- ers, it means a lot when they let us 382 (threeightwo) is a group of skiers who Sunday March, two for a head to head finals jam in the lower sec- know its a dope event. Definately justpk: want to make a positive impact on skiing 29 “Battle My Crew tion, winning crew recieves automatic entry next shout out to the crews that have through the one core value all skiers should share: 3”. The contest that year, $1500 cash, and a bunch of gear from the come back both years Stept,$ki having a f*ckin blast. started it all, and now sponsors. 2nd place crew recieves $500. Block, New Intelligent Group. What We try is to keep things laid back with everything here we are 3 years later. With 4 people skiing there is a lot of room for We’re looking into the possibilty we“The do, just Weekend like skiing should with be. 382”? Battle My Crew was inspired creativity and we like that. Its just all fun, crews that of doing some new contests in bl: by your typical day at the are eliminated can ski/film on the course all day, we other parts of the U.S. in the mountain, cruising around the justWhat try to iskeep your a good motivation atmosphere and forget its nextDetails few yearsfor so we will keep park with your friends, filming afor “competition”. an event like this? youthis updated year? on that. The Weekend is basically one big party where and just having a ball. We took this pk: tricks flow like the bags of wine, the pretzels stay concept and formulated it into this crispy and skiing in general is just celebrated with event. Crews of 4 will be invited to all of our freinds. We have a two day event with two compete at Loon on the 29th through pm:I would say our biggest motives are the kids and The Weekend with 382 different contests and a party in between. It will be online video submission. You must create riders that support and appreciate what we’re trying is March 28-29, 2009 at March 28-29 at the now legendary Loon Mountain a max. 5 min edit of your crew and submit to do and also the love for skiing we all have. Loon Mountain in Lincoln, in New Hampshire. it to us by the determined deadline. We will We were sick of the comp scene. In so many New Hampshire.Check out Saturday March 28, “March Mayhem” slope- then select 7 crews to try to take down last instances comps are stressful and filled with bullshit. www.threeightwo.com for style. Skiers are randomly seated in a head to head years defending champs, Stept Productions. It’s We took a step back and are making sure our con- BMC 3 video submission $1000 in cash.” bracket style format, single elimination winner take real laid back, crews are encouraged to bring film- tests are fun and honest. It’s not hard to do, but so and all other event de- all $1000 in cash. ers, photo cameras, we leave the format somewhat many fail to do it. I guess our biggest goal is to try tails. See you there, you Brian Norton and the entire park staff just blow open ended where crews are allowed to do pretty andbl: get everyone to see that contests can be really dont want to miss this. our minds every year with the setup. This event will much anything they want in the first 2 rounds. fun and promote creativity rather than back to back 9 feature a 4 feature run consisting of at least 1 rail and Synchronize, train, solo runs whatever you want switch tens. “Winner take all at least 3 jumps. You’ll be able to pre-register online. to do the setup is always nuts(wait until you see And even with this mentality we still want it to (www.threeightwo.com) Spots will go quick. this years) and exclusive to the event. We narrow stay competitive but without the stress/pressure. 11

INTERVIEW

Photo: Rami Hanafi I heard you grew up in New Hampshire, where do you Interviewed by: Katie Davis live now? I still live in NH, well based out of there at least.

When you ride out west, do you couch surf or do you have your own place? All I used to do was couch surf, for like four years. I stepped it up a bit and I usually have a spot nowadays.

Sponsors? Flow, Billabong, Smith, Grenade, and Neff.

“We’re all knuckle draggers”

Do you feel a lot of pressure to please your sposors? Not really, if anything I put the pressure on myself.

Favorite places to ride? Jackson Hole, Mammoth, and of course good ole Loon and Waterville.

What’s one trick that you just can’t do? Theres a lot, but one is a cab 10 in the pipe.

What do you do when your not snowboaring or on the hill? Im down for pretty much everything, chill, party, hunt, fish, surf when I can for sure.

Being a pro athlete, many of them have super- stitions. Do you have special routines you do before or after a comp? Not really, just go out and do it.

Who’s your favorite person to ride with? Ma- son Aguirre and Kevin Pearce, they love to have fun and mess around on the shred stick.

Anyone you’d really like to film with in the 13 future? I would like to film with Travis again, but I’m going to be doing the whole contest scene this year, so its going to be tough. 15

One place you haven’t been to but would like to go and why? Tibet, its peacefull and full of pow I think.

Whats on your ipod? Pretty much a grip of every- thing from hip hop, to rock and roll

Do you wash your socks or get new ones for free? I wash them and I get new ones, you can never go wrong with free socks.

Funniest thing you’ve seen or heard in the past 24 hours? One of my friends gave himself a home drug test and failed, so now he can’t do well in a contest, because they drug test. He had to pur- posely fall on his runs.

Word Association, give us the first thought that pops into your head when you hear the “Work hard following: Reno, NV: sweet Obama: smokes cigs..boo and Ski Blades: koook Tall Tees: misty enjoy life.” East Coast: hard core Biggest Sterotype about snowboarders: We’re all knuckle draggers haha.

Thanks for your time. Any last words or tips for the younger shred heads? Yea all the little homies work hard and enjoy life.

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some did) all of the finalists put on awesome show, making for for making show, awesome on put finalists the of all did) some some very difficult placement decisions. In the end, with with end, the In decisions. placement difficult very some stacks of cash doled out left and right, and just just and right, and left out doled cash of stacks about every winners plans to “move out out “move to plans winners every about west”, only the seasons end will will end seasons the only west”, tell who really went went really who tell from “Rails to to “Rails from always a crowd pleaser, and this years competition was no exception. exception. no was competition years this and pleaser, crowd a always Riches.” of the $15,000 cash purse. Plenty of fresh snow, new rails and cold weather made made weather cold and rails new snow, fresh of Plenty purse. cash $15,000 the of for a favorable setup. Skiers and riders, men and women, threw it down hard dur hard down it threw women, and men riders, and Skiers setup. favorable a for ing a one-hour jam session under the lights. The thousands of spectators were were spectators of thousands The lights. the under session jam one-hour a ing far from disappointed. Forest Bailey and Tanya Schmidt were the most impressive impressive most the were Schmidt Tanya and Bailey Forest disappointed. from far to the judges and took home the top spots for men and women riders. LJ (John) (John) LJ riders. women and men for spots top the home took and judges the to Strenio was solid throughout his practice and straight into the night, not surpris not night, the into straight and practice his throughout solid was Strenio ingly taking home 4G’s and first place for the men skiers. Kim Lamarre took home home took Lamarre Kim skiers. men the for place first and 4G’s home taking ingly first for womens skiers. womens for first

Kicking off the 08-09 winter season with a bang, Killington’s “Rails to Riches” is is Riches” to “Rails Killington’s bang, a with season winter 08-09 the off Kicking Last years winner, Lucas Magoon, set the bar high for this years competitors competitors years this for high bar the set Magoon, Lucas winner, years Last Judges had their hands full however as almost anyone can attest, (and (and attest, can anyone almost as however full hands their had Judges

UVM

- - JSC UNH TOP FIVE

The way the economy is going, combined with the rising costs of every- thing from gas and lift tickets to food and beer, be- ing a ski bum doesn’t seem to be the best option these days. Fortunately there’s no shortage of colleges on the east coast with ill’n 2 shred scenes. I looked into nearly 25 col- leges in the northeast and narrowed it down to 20 the top 5 with a few honorable mentions. Here are the results:

21 UNH

University of New Hampshire

Most people look at UNH as a Greek dominat- ed, overpriced, party school. What you don’t see from the outside is the snow scene. It’s not all frat boys and chad rock. UNH holds some sick industry events. Get Out of Bed and Shred is one of the largest4 industry events on a college campus in New England. Tons of companies, shops, teams and clubs all show up for it. There are also rail jams and multiple movie premiers held on and off campus. There may be a lot of popped collars but there’s also a retarded amount of beezys and shred kids at UNH, and that’s why they took numero cuatro.

Lyndon State College

Located up in the mountains of Northeastern VT, Lyndon isn’t for the meek and mild either. Lo- P l UVM cated fifteen or so minutes from Burke Mountain JSC and forty-five minutes from Jay Peak, the winters y University of Vermont Johnson State College m It’s no secret there’s a huge snow scene at P- can be extremely cold. This doesn’t begin to faze o State. Notorious for it’s partying, Plymouth is up in these5 kids though. LSC hosts multiple movie pre- u the White Mountains of NH. It’s fifteen minutes from miers each year on campus, as well as hosting- on t Waterville Valley, twenty minutes from Loon, and you campus rail jams. This year they are helping to set h could hit Tenney Mountain from your dorm room up the Vermont State College Throwdown. Many

window (Not to mention, PSU students only pay Burlington: Hippies, head shops, beer, and Number three on the list is coming from a small colleges in Vermont are invited and its going to be S $1 for lift tickets there). These fools live the life of a shredding. UVM took number two in the list be- a slopestyle event held at Burke Mountain. Cur- t college in Northern Vermont. Most people haven’t shred kid and that’s no joke. Throwing back Natty Ice a cause they know how to get down and the kids even heard of this school but I can tell you from rently the snowboard/ski club at LSC is working on t and PBR like it’s no one’s business till 3a.m. and still there kill it. UVM is right around the corner from experience, it’s there. Just a matter of minutes from getting an on campus terrain park as well. Word up e making it to the hill for first chair. They have both a world-class resorts such as Stowe and Smuggs. world-class Stowe Resort, and 90 minutes from Jay to these kids and shred on. recreational snowboard club and a competitive team. UVMSSC2 membership has over 1800 students Peak,3 Johnson isn’t for the weak hearted. This isn’t *DIDN’T SEE YOUR SCHOOL MENTIONED OR WANNA U The school recognizes the club. The club will hook and for the elites of the club there is a competitive southern Cali. Be prepared for serious negative ADD YOUR OWN TWO CENTS? SAVE IT FOR NEXT SEA- n you up with some sick deals at shops like Lahout’s team, UVMST, which travels all over Northern Ver- temps. If you can handle the cold, they will show SON WHEN WE RE-EVALUATE THE SHRED SCENE AND i and every year 30 kids get an inclusive trip paid for mont and hits various contests across the country. you some of the best pow the east has to offer. SEE WHERE THE ALMA MATERS STACK UP AGAIN. v by the school to go shralp at Jay Peak up in VT. The The club/team hosts multiple rail jams, video pre- It’s not all backcountry pow fields though. JSC has e competitive team travels around the Northeast hit- miers, and industry events ranging from 80 people r a terrain park on campus. It’s by no means a top ting different contest circuits and events. Rail jams s to over 400 in attendance. Benefits you can get ten park in the country but does your school have i and movie premiers are not unusual up in Plymouth. for being in the club are discounted season passes a park? Doubt it. If you’re looking for a smaller t All this is on top of the fact that there’s a dorm, Pemi, at multiple mountains, pro form deals (if you don’t school out in the sticks, JSC might be your calling. y just for ski and snowboard kids. The dorm has a frig- know what that is you best find out ya clown), and gen tune area in the basement! Yup, here’s your sign. free transportation to and from the mountains, just Saint Michaels College University of Maine Farmington If you’re trying to ski/ride, PSU is definitely the place to name a few. Burlington is a dope town and UVM for you. Just be ready to get down ‘cuz these kids can is a sick college if you’re trying to shred and do that Castleton State College party, and by party I mean friggen rage! whole degree thing at the same time. Check it out. 23 24 ThrowingDown

On a cold, wet, rainy and windy af- ternoon at Loon Mountain it appeared as though the best riders would stay at home. Fortunately that was not the case. Shredders put on a show for everyone. A big shout out to Mark Pomykato, Tanner McCarthy and Kai Wiggins who won their individual events. However, the highlight of the day was produced by Travis Koozi who executed an unbelievable, gnarly back flip off the rail. The rain certainly put a damper on the event, but overall the competitors killington OpenSeasonloon provided a pretty awesome show for their TheStash viewers. - Pat Gaffney

This season Killington Resort was given the honor of being host to one of the most epic and ingenious parks of it’s time. The Stash by Burton was recently opened at Killington Resort and Steez Magazine had the opportunity to be there before the general public got their jib-sticks on it. One of only five parks of it’s kind in the world, The Stash is truly unique. Comprising solely of natural wooden features and playing off the mountains current terrain, The Stash is loaded with hidden elements. Everything from carved wooden gorillas to a full-scale wood cabin with a deck and railing. You’ll find just about everything you can think of “stashed” away in the woods beside the trails as you make your descent. It’s amazing what you can do with trees. Who needs that manmade plastic or steel? This park will give you a new appreciation for both park riding and the outdoors. Don’t worry either, with so many secret features throughout the park, you’ll never get bored. Hell, half the fun is just searching for new hits every run. A one of a kind, and worth the trip. -A

smuggs Set the rails aside, did I hear of a big air comp at Smugglers Notch? Yeah that’s right, and it was a sick time indeed. Kicking off the day with a cool negative ten degrees and rogue wind gusts strong enough to mangle any por- table structure, conditions could have been better. The elements were no match however, for the die-hard local skiers and shredders that came out. Over 50 competitors donned their spandex bibs and schlepped to the top

of the park throughout the day. The Main Event, being the gateway for the Am rider to get their shot to compete against crotched Smuggs built one of the largest booters the pros in the U.S Open, attracts the best of the best around East. The first stop of this 6 BigSteezy The Zone has ever accommodated thanks to stop series at Crotched Mountain didn’t disappoint. Matt and Mike. The 55-foot hit brought out With a healthy dumping of glorious white wonderfulness to soften things up, Wes Walsh some ridiculous tricks, and everything from took first destroying everything in his path. I’m pretty sure the ski patrol was forced to close switch to backside 900’s to name a few, were the course down after he stomped an enormous 9 into a switch back 270. He killed it all day. thrown throughout the day. Big Steez meant The ladies came out in full force grabbing everything in sight with Lauren Tamposi taking first big prizes and everyone Pro and Am went in the womens pro division. “This event had a real good vibe,” said Gunstock local Rob Hal- home with a smile. A major shout out to ev- lowell after the contest. Despite some suspect judging and an announcer who liked to tickle

eryone who came together to make the event things, The Main Event at Crotched Mountain set a high bar for the competitors in the events MainEvent such a huge success, especially Rick and Rob. to come. - Tom Ryan Now, do I hear a Big Steezy 2? -A 26 CoreShot

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We recently had the opportunity to take Beans true twin park board out to the mountain for a test drive. “The Violator” is the real deal. Made with a Popple Combo Core, Carbon Steel edges, a Sin- tered base and TriaxGlass, this board shows all the common features you’d find in the boards down to the local Board Shack.

We found The Violator to be a pretty damn solid board, taking on 10 to 15-foot drops with ease. Mount Snow Hey, what goods a board review if you don’t ride the damn thing!? The Violator is one of the widest at jib boards in its class and Bean wasn’t lying about it being super buttery either. Coming in three dif- ferent sizes and colorways, I’d say the boys down Beansnowboards.comat Bean did a pretty sick job for their pilot year. Head’s up Jake!

January 8th to the 11th brought the Dew Tour to Mount Snow, VT. This was the first big-time event the mountain has had since the first two years of the X-Games. The weekend was a blast and a blurr!

Words: A Photo: Ian Pouliot our localIt mountain was awesome withall to share the pro riders and skiers, en joy the live music from the Dirty Heads and the Flobots and to be around so many people that were all pumped to be at the Dew Tour.

day wasThe a powder snow was day!), flying pros (Sun riding, little grommits going nuts for Shaun White, teenage - girls going nuts for the bands and my feet are still cold from standing outside watching all of the events. Lucky for us, the weather gave us 5-8 inches on Saturday night and the sleet - and rain from the week before stayed far away.

Saturday held the slopestyle finals. Norwegian Torstein Horgmo maintained the lead in a close contest against Olympic gold medalist, Shaun White in the men’s snowboard slopestyle finals. The 21-year old Horgmo took the lead on his first run. His winning run included technical tricks on the rails and the flat box and a cab 900 on the first jump, to a backside 900 on the second jump. He finished with a switch backside 1260 on the -fi nal jump. Spectators were not allowed to line the run but we all waited at the bottom of the run to

watch the riders come over the last jump. White grommits came in second with 92.33 and Andreas Wiig was “ Nuts” Going third with 88.00. In the women’s field, Anderson, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif. slayed the course with a tail press to 29 a nose press to a pretzel out on the top rails. She landed a switch backside 360 on the first jump to a cab 180 on the box jump. She finished with a joey’s fighting the locals in parking lot brawls, guys perfectly groomed, weather was nice and everyone frontside 360 to a frontside 520 on the final two pretending they were pro riders to pick up chicks, was buzzing off of copious amounts of free Moun- jumps to earn 85.67 points. drunken Michael Jackson moves on the dance floor, tain Dew. Of course, Shaun White took home 1st If you were in the crowd at the bottom of the pro ho’s all around and the usual shenanigans, in- place and fellow gold medalist (and West Dover, slopestyle finals, you most likely were able to get cluding the Dingo (obviously). VT local), Kelly Clark won the women’s event. Even your gloved-hands on a VIP party pass to the Snow Although the crowd was moving a little slow af- though Shaun White has been saying it was a weird Barn. It was the place to go that night! The VIP ter the previous night’s fun, everyone still came out final run for him, he still killed it with a backside pass gave you access to an open bar, I don’t think to ride the freshies and watch the Superpipe Finals. rodeo 720, a backside 900, back-to-back 1080’s Mount Snow fully understood what snowboard- Saturday night brought us some fresh snow to play into a 720. He finished with an alley-oop rodeo bums who live on a very limited budget could do around on that morning and by the time the Super- and scored 96.25. He makes it look so darn easy! to an open bar. Damage was done to the bottles pipe Finals came around that afternoon, everyone Mount Snow was the 2nd stop of the Dew tour. of liquor, enough Jack shots to kill a small animal, was satisfied with their morning runs. The pipe was The finale will be at Northstar-at-Tahoe in California. 30 Shorties

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ODE TO THE KNEEby Jennifer Pizzi

Unlike a sweet snowboard or a sick set of skies, the finest hu- man camber cannot be bought in next year’s catalog of the latest pro-models. LCL, PCL, MCL, ACL, Meniscus. These are the materi- als that determine your pop, your butter, your backside ones, your powder days, and ultimately your shredability. These ligaments do not sit in a warehouse of mass production, new and shiny waiting to be purchased. They instead, develop and bond over years of growth and training, and can be found uniquely in your own right and left knee. If these materials do begin to buckle and break, the correct tuning and allotted TLC may eventually rebuild, regrow, and reat- tach some of these precious ligaments. The not-so lucky remaining members however, may be replaced with foreign and used parts, or at times, artificial replicas. None of which will ever take place of the priceless originals. So take heed, and go the extra bit to preserve, ISup-keep, PINK and bymaintain Patrick theGaffney athletes greatest camber, your very own Pro Model: Right and Left Knee. Ski Vs. Ride by Larry Brown Sack up and rock the pinkIs Pink on the “Rock,” slopes if “Metro,” you want to or rock worse? it in the bedroom! While In this pre-apocalyptic, hypothetical world there we can focus on the sports themselves for a minute the common dude may frown upon the fellow bro sporting the pink, Lay down your swords, spikes and arrows (ver- are, of course, these two schools of thought, and and use another outlandish analogy. it is pretty obvious the chicks dig it. But in order to survive in the bal and non) fellow snow fans. Tis’ the season to be it won’t be hard to imagine what they are. What’s Imagine an after-school special, or any premise land of the fellow bro, you must be safe and rock the brightest pink there is. Unless you want to be placed in the “worse” category, you giving, and forgiving, so I say, “Let there be peace really important here is to remember that under to a show backed by the Disney Corporation. Now need to make sure you arm yourself with shockingly vivid pink. on the mountain this season.” Too long have we these two sides there exists several subdivisions, or imagine there are two main characters (again, there CAUTION: This advice only applies to those who can truly been feuding, casting disdainful glares to one an- variations upon the original’s fundamentals. Below always are). Skiing is like the coolest kid in school, he’s CHAIR-LIFTshred the gnar. So fellow ETIQUETTE men, if you can reallyby Jennifer hit the Pizzi slopes let the other from atop chairlifts. Let us come together, if these, there are even further subdivisions that actu- captain of the football team, and all the girls want to pink flag fly, if not keep it in the closet. not to a mutual understanding, over the epiphany ally crossover, melding the two groups into a symbi- ride his mustang—car, until one day, snowboarding we must have, the juvenile truth of it all, and the otic hybrid-thing; half-breeds that can do both, day comes along. He’s been transferred to Mountain Cen- It’s negative ten degrees, wind’s blowing strong. The chair is analogy I am about to make. walkers… “We’re not so different, you and I,” said tral High because he’s a trouble maker and for some moving at a crawling pace. You’re flying solo because the friends But first, what to call ourselves? For in order to somebody in some movie, usually the anti-hero to reason his parents and the admissions office thought all bailed once they saw the thermometer. But it’s okay. You’re bundled up with tunes cranking, ready for a mellow day to yourself. live together, we must first break down this initial the hero. “I’am your father.” it would be a good idea to send him to a quiet, small Then, as if blown in with the wind, The Talker swoops in for the barrier of separation that categorizing us into two That might not even be as moronic as I meant it to town school instead of an institution, and of course, kill. The chair you thought you had alone is now filled with another different sports creates. For all of time there have be, either. After all skiing was here first, and Vader did he’s the poor, loner, bad boy who hates school. He human life form. And he wants to talk. At first you smile and nod been the skiers and the riders, the two-plankers and come back around, so no one’s pointing fingers at the is in fact, too cool for school. This does not bode through his banter, trying not to be rude. Your lip reading skills have improved over the years, but it’s a talent not yet mastered. Then the knuckle draggers, the squares and the rebels. bad guy. Don’t dare say there’s no residual animosity well for skiing, because he has tradition and history, he starts firing questions. Now you’re screwed. The conversation But that line has become much less clear in recent out there too. I see it all the time, but then again that and this punk has come along disrupting the whole is blown open. First, you instinctively tug at the frost covered ban- times. So I say, we call skiers and snowboarders could just be people; we naturally hate each other, damn thing. Eventually, they both team up after an danna to murmur a barely audible “yes” or “uh-huh.” Next, you’re alike: “Those That Are Drawn Downhill On a Device and our differences just give us an excuse. emotional breakthrough and end up overthrowing forced to remove one glove to pull the sound system off your head, but soon you end up in a tangled mess. As you finally get yourself Under the Influence of Gravity and Aided by the Perhaps the future is not so bleak and desolate, the evil principal, together. I guess that was more of a situated, The Talker whose expression is inexplicably quite pink and Effect of Said Device’s Interaction with the Surface but one must agree that an outdated, passive-aggres- commentary on boring movie scripts, but you got the plush exclaims, “Oh gee, you better get something to cover your of Snow, or TTADDODUIGAESDISS for short. Now, sive war does rage. The heart of this issue lies not in point, didn’t you? face, looks like you’ve begun to get some frost bite!” let us imagine a hypothetical world to better illus- our differences, but in the differences of our sports. In Truth is, it’s our own fault for perpetuating the trate the need for that illustrious acronym. order to understand that brilliant accusation, maybe hate. Let’s do it for the kids. 32 ShopSpotting

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