Guess What's Coming Around the Corner!?

I'll give you a hint...it starts with 'snow' and ends in 'season'.

That's right! Snowboarding season is just around the corner. A-basin will likely open mid-October for the fantastic early season riding, which mostly consists of grilling out at the car, drinking a few beverages, and hanging out with friends in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Of course we also take a few runs, but with hundreds of skiers and riders and only 1-2 runs open, the riding really isn't what early season is about.

To get in the proper mind-set for this phenomenal time of year, a few friends and I went to 'Snowboard on the Rocks' last night. It was an event held at Red Rocks Amphitheater where they showed 3 new snowboarding videos and had 3 performers entertain. It was the first year they have ever had this event, but I believe it is going to become an annual thing. The whole event was executed very poorly; it was extremely unorganized and the technical difficulties at the beginning of the event resulted in a large amount of time of 'filler-entertainment' which was awful. It was basically two guys who sounded like stoners walking around on the stage, talking about nothing, and shouting out 'yeh' or some other ape-like grunt. They finally did get the videos playing, but due to the extra time it took to fix the technical difficulties, they cut one of the entertainers from the line-up and the event still didn't finish until midnight. I wasn't upset about the entertainer being cut. All 3 of them for the night were pretty bad hip-hop type rappers. They had some nice background beats and we enjoyed it enough to have a good time and dance, but really I just wanted to see the videos.

Speaking of the videos, they were great; especially the last one. It was called The Storming and it was the very first premier of the video. The riders in the video hadn't even seen it. A couple of pros in the video were at the premier last night to introduce it, so that was also pretty cool! I don't know his last name but Torstein something-or-other was there, and he was the main rider in the video. Apparently he is the only rider ever to land a triple inverted trick and he did it while adding spins (I think a 900). That is how the last video ended. It was a great video; very well produced with some gnarly lines dropped and catchy music. I think it is sufficient to say that by the end of the night we were all pretty stoked for the season to begin. Here's hoping this year brings more snow than last.