My Snowboarding Wishlist

I just got my awesome new backpack that's perfect for day hikes and side-country riding!! Planning on doing a lot more of side-country riding from now on :)

But there are so many snowboard-related-ish things I want sooooo bad!! Here's my dream wish-list in no particular order (eventually I'll have everything):

• Beacon
• Probe & Shovel
• Split Board
• Woodward @ Copper Pass (going to finally learn to be better in the park to help with my all mountain riding and thus I'll hopefully do better in Freeride comps!!)

• Freebord

• Team KickAss Costume (I actually NEED a new jacket...mine finally bit the dust after 3 or so years)
• HaberVision Highline Goggles (my goggles aren't dark enough on sunny days)

• New Mittens (but I'm going to use Duct Tape as long as I can because I've never found mittens as awesome as the ones I rock before or since I got the ones I have been using for years!!)
• More Smart Wool socks (you an never have too many)
• Bindings (If I find good ones on sale...I have to switch mine too often with all of my decks!!)
• Tele Setup (would love to learn eventually!!)

That's all for now...I'm set with my boards once Stephen, my "slash", gets my new race board ready to rock & roll after I try it out!! Oh what an expensive hobby I have...

xoxox Summ

Mini recaps of my day since 3.18.11:

Well it just keeps snowing!! Looks like the seasons will change directly from Winter to Summer this year, Spring is being skipped!! Hahaha! Enjoying my last days of powder before my first beautiful summer in Summit County :)


March 18, Beaver Creek: Awesome pow run first thing and by noon it was all slush but it was a beautiful sunny hot day :) high quota today so a bit stressful but awesome day overall


March 20, Beaver Creek: Fun day of work at the Beav...sunny day, felt like surfing! Band at Red Tail Camp was good :)


March 24, Beaver Creek: Bluebird morning riding solo, work at 11.15, lunch with Kim & Scott at Red Tail, ran into JP & George there, after lunch it was pretty much blizzarding for a whle -- near whiteout conditions! Free champagne & then free beer with Lindsey, promo in Eagle with Jen...damn good day if you ask me :)


March 25, Beaver Creek: Day 100 on the hill!! Fun day working :) lunch with Joel & Kim, Happy Hour with Derek, Sean, & new friends :)


March 27, Beaver Creek: Great Sunday at work :) need to wax my Lib though!!!


March 28, Keystone: Faceshots, trees, & pow past my knees!! Fun morning pre-work workout on the UnInc :)


March 29, Keystone: Mouse Trap trees, Starfire with awesome pow past my knees, and even more fresh tracks with Ray :) Great morning before work!!


March 30, Beaver Creek: Fun day shredding with Rick, Cody, & Derek from other Marketing Research departments :) Stone Creek, Royal Elk Glade, trees, both parks (even did some 180s), cruisers.... all-together a good time and a much needed day off after working 23 days in a row!!!


March 31, Beaver Creek: Work


April 1, Beaver Creek & A Basin: Work at the Beav in the morning and an awesome Gaper Day at the Basin :) Lindsey up for the night and hung with Pete, Justin, Mike, Michael, Matt & company :) played some pool, met the 11-day-old boxer pups, etc. Great day, great night :)


April 2, Copper: Nationals practice day...love the course and feel pretty confident about it, but ran into a major issue, my boot broke!! Damn you, Boa system!!! Got my boot fixed and testing it out at work tomorrow...


April 3, Beaver Creek: My last day working at the Beav and a very weird yet awesome day weather wise! The highway from Dillon to Vail was horribly slushy and I was driving so slow because of hydroplaning!! It was raining in the morning and then it started snowing hard (I'm guessing corn snow) pellets and it was so windy during my milk run that I couldn't wait to get inside! Thunder came next and all of the lifts at the Beav were closed for about an hour!! Then the soft dry snow began accumulating quickly (~8" in 2 hours) which made for an awesome afternoon shredding at the Beav!!!


April 4, Copper: Tiring race day...got 1st at Nationals though :) I'm so happy I had so many great friends come and support me :) Thanks so much to everybody!


April 10, Keystone: Slush Cup (Jake won!!!), Shot Skis, BSG friends, Breck friends, Avon friends, park fun, Kickapoo, Dos Locos -- Great closing day at Key!!


April 13, Vail: Beautiful bluebird day with Amanda, Aaron W, & Brian! Theme of the day: JUST POINT IT!!


April 15, A Basin: Awesome powder day riding A Basin with Esteban and Erica Morgan! Palli chair, East Wall, avalanche blasting, Warren Miller film being shot, Bacon Bloody....ahhhh, schizophrenic April :)


April 18, Beaver Creek: Employee party day at the Beav


April 19, Copper: Copper with Autumn in the afternoon after work :) Heavy pow!!


April 20, A Basin & Copper: 2 laps at A Basin, a few hours of work at HCT, interview for SNG, rode Copper with Stephen, watched Nuggets lose :'( ladies' night at Johnny's with Amanda Montana, Erica Morgan, & Stephen....weather too bad for moonlight ride :( next month!!!


April 23, A Basin: Fun pow morning before work :) Kahlua promotion in the afternoon, gave away Kahlua Never Summer :)


April 24, Copper & Vail: Fun in the trees this morning at Copper!! Off to Vail closing day 10" at Copper (snow was best) and 12" at Vail and sunny is more than I could have hoped for!! Rode for a while and then hung out up at the top of Chair 4 before 4 because I wanted to see the pond skim...watched the pond skim at Vail (Jake made it to finals!) with Smiley, Pete, Mitch, Jen, etc. and saw Boomhower!! Rode with/Partied with: Anthony, his bro, George, Derek, Chase, (afforementioned), etc! Great closing day!!


May 1, Loveland: Awesome powder day with Curtis at Loveland!! Awesome resort, idk how I've never experienced it before (except a pre-season day) when I live so close!! Hit my first ever rainbow box and did some seemingly unnecessary hiking because we ended up on the wrong side of the tunnel...pretty sure it was a good mile...hahaha


May 11: A Basin: It felt awesome to ride this morning :) Of course there was a little crust underneath in some places but so much powder, face shots all morning!! Rode with Amanda Montana and Lisa :)


May 12, A Basin: Phenomenal morning at the Basin :) Zuma Bowl, cornice, and trees were great, definately doesn't feel like May with all this fresh pow!! Rode with new friends, Mick & Stu :)


May 13, A Basin: Great Friday the 13th!! Skiied half the morning and rode once I'd realized they opened up East Wall :) My riding buddies were my new friend, Levi, Mick, and his roomie (Pat?) Fun day, beautiful day!!!


May 18, A Basin: Fun day riding with my new friend Mac :) Found some good pow but definitely some dust on crust in areas. Snowed hard all day long! Was very wet snow though so I was soaked by the end of the day! The onesie is definitely not waterproof anymore, not even close!!


May 19, A Basin: 8" fresh snow in May!! Had an awesome day shredding with my girls! Rode with Miranda in the morning and with Erica Morgan in the afternoon :) Popped Erica's cornice cherry too! Rode my old (2004) Burton Custom today, nice little change-up :) I'm stoked for a powder day on my birthday tomorrow!!!


Day count this season:

A Basin: 18


A Basin/Copper: 1

Beaver Creek: 38


Beaver Creek/A Basin: 1

Breck/A Basin: 1

Copper: 18

Copper/Key: 1


Copper/Vail: 1

Key: 22

Loveland: 2

Loveland Pass: 1

Snowmass:2

Steamboat: 2

Taos: 3

Vail: 10

Winter Park: 2

Total Days: 123