Last Day: Stevens Pass
Sunday was the last day at Stevens Pass for the season. Le sigh. After a late start, Afton, who has come to think of himself as quite the mountain dog, Mitch, and I drove up to find bluebird skies, packed parking lots, and warm weather at Stevens.
April Pow Day 1
The past week or two, Stevens Pass has been getting hit hard with snow…finally! I was able to get up two times and play in some deeper stuff. I think I can say I met my season goal of getting better at riding in pow, but I’ve still got a lot more to learn. Saturday [...]
Snowboarding with the ladies
This season I’ve ridden with more girls than all of my previous years riding combined. Mostly, I would ride with a bunch of guys–the same way most every other girl does–but this year from Ladies Shred Day, Pillow Fight, and then this past weekend, I’ve ridden with lots of rad chickas. All of the ladies [...]
Day 20: Shred and Big Air Fiesta
Last Saturday I was up at Stevens and met up with some of the guys from the motor-home lot. It was sunny, spring conditions and lots of fun cruising around with the guys. I think we were setting speed records down the mountain. Off groomers was soft and poofy on top with sheets of ice [...]
Day 17: More speed!
Note: I am having the best winter I have had in a long time since I decided to get back into snowboarding. I’ve realized how much I missed it and how much happier it makes me. I hope you’ve had some epic days on the snow too and have had a fun season riding with [...]
Pillow Fight: Day 3
Sunday morning came early and I was sore from Saturday’s pow session. But, I was too excited to lay around in bed, so I stiffly threw on my gear, brushed my teeth and headed to the Kingfisher Lodge at the Sleeping Lady to have breakfast with all of the other awesome Pillow Fight ladies. It [...]
Pillow Fight: Day 2
If you haven’t been to Pillow Fight at Stevens Pass…GO! Today was so, so awesome. There were about 50 women and we split up into different groups–beginner, intermediate, intermediate-advanced, park-beginner, and park-advanced. The groups were small and each had an instructor, and everyone I talked to said their instructors were great. Here is our rad [...]
Day 10: Off the Groomers at Stevens Pass
With reports of 8″ of snow on Monday from Stevens Pass, I headed out with my friends William, Teresa, and Lola to get some runs in. Lola is one, but she loves playing in the snow so Teresa and Lola stayed at the lodge while William and I headed out to see what we could [...]
Day 9: Ladies Shred Day, plus a 50-50
Two Saturdays ago I went up to the Summit at Snoqualmie for International Ladies Shred Day. This was the first time I had been up to the Summit, and I was excited to check out a new Washington ski area. It was pretty close to Seattle and smaller, so I can see how it wouldn’t [...]
Day 6: Sundays = Long Lift Lines
Sunday was my first day out at Steven’s Pass since mid-December, it had been way too long and I had to head out. Everyone else did too… The bad news was that I was completely unable to convince any friends to come out riding with me because of the forecast, the good news was that [...]
Day 4: The Blender and Feelgood
Burton was at Stevens Pass on Saturday and I got the chance to demo two new boards, the Blender and the Feelgood. I’ve been riding a ’99 Burton Custom since, well, ’99. And a ’98 Custom before that. And an Air way back in the beginning. So I’ve only been on Burton, and (except for [...]
Day 3: Linking Switch Turns
Geared Up The last two times out with the Burton Emeralds I had had some major heel lift/foot cramps/numb toes. Why did I even bother getting new boots if they hurt? But instead of going back to my old boots, I went to the shop and they let me swap out the Burtons for Salomon [...]
Day 2: Stevens Pass Pow Pow
Lesson Plan: Powder! What I Learned: Snowboarding with chikas is super fun. Snowboarding in powder is even better. The big mounds of snow don’t hurt, you can ride right through them. At the end of a powder day, you’ll be covered in snow. Melissa and I drove out to Stevens for what was to be [...]
Day 1: Groomers, Moguls, and Tinkerbell
Despite having just written up a bunch of goals for the season, I had absolutely no goals set for the day besides get out onto the snow and getting back into the flow. I was carpooling, and I met up with two skiers under I-5 in downtown Seattle. It was pretty sketch, but it seemed [...]
