washington

Over the weekend I went snowboarding at White Pass Resort in Washington with the Portland State University Snowboard Club. The club rented a fairly decent sized house for two nights and crammed 18 people into it, it was actually quite comfortable. The house was pretty nice especially because it had a pool table, fireplace and a very warm (108-110 f) hot tub. The hot tub was an oh so welcome sight when everyone came off the mountain beaten and bruised. Danger Dave and myself were the most bruised out of the lot.

Danger Dave has his nickname for good reason, the guy attempts crazy tricks and is always riding hard and going big, unfortunately he also tends to fall quite often hence the danger part. If you check out the pictures up on the SBC website he'll be the one with the box cast on his arm. His first fall of the weekend yielded him a demolished binding base plate, bruised ankle and a call to Ski Patrol. Unfortunately Ski Patrol decided not to pick him up and he had to walk down the mountain.. poor boy. Several hours later he had fixed his binding and rested up enough to hit the mountain again. He fell.... This fall was hard enough to justify Ski Patrol bringing him down the mountain and fixing up a nice box sling for his arm.

Now myself I don't ride that hard. Although I am attempting new tricks and I have been partial to hitting the half pipe when it is available. I can get up and out of the halfpipe and do a 360 but that is the limit on my tricks. I want to try out handplants n' such just because those were always fun to do when I was younger (done on a wood halfpipe, not snow). At 10pm on saturday night I did take a nice big fall off the Funbox. I got the wind knocked out of me and gave myself a nice internal bruise on my hip. It is now five days later and the bruise is finally starting to poke through on the surface and it still hurts. Although beaten and bruised I'm still waiting to hit the mountain again. The season is almost over and I have to hit it as much as possible before everything melts.

Check out the pictures on the PSU SBC website.