A few weekends ago I flew up to Anchorage to visit my brother. I always enjoy visiting him because we have such a good relationship. While there, we decided to go to Alyeska, both Saturday and Sunday for some snowboarding (Aaron skied). Saturday the weather was reasonable, although the mountain was pretty crowded. Sunday was a different story. Being that [...]

I started snowboarding in the ’99/00 season, using a board my friend Okamura gave me. I ended up teaching myself and struggling for awhile until I realized that my board was too short for the way I ride. Since then, I started riding longer boards and improved considerably, although I still don’t consider myself that great. In the last two [...]