HOT AIR: How to BLOW IT on a Pow Day

Few trips to the hill hold the promise of being a sacred pow day. It is the standard from which all other days are measured. It’s Disneyland, Christmas and losing your virginity all at once. It would seem then that you could hold it together, that you could contain yourself, that you would refrain from doing anything even remotely stupid as to taint your quest for glory. Is that so hard? I want you to get it. I need you to get it! It is really quite simple, a bargain some say.

If it is so simple, then why do you continue to BLOW IT? Damn it! I’m not even the one f--king up and it still pains me! I am embarrassed for you. If any of the following apply, you are most likely beginning to lose focus. Some may be excusable, but none are forgivable.

You know you are blowing a powder day if you:

• Ski
• Agree to teach someone how to snowboard
• Sleep in
• Ride your jib stick
• Spend three hours in line for a chair that won’t open
• Forget to wax
• Ride with a posse
• Leave your pass at home
• Break a piece of equipment
• Show up with a hangover
• Get hurt trying to be a hero
• Underdress
• Overdress
• Become lost looking for that secret stash
• Bring your significant other
• Duck the ropes and lose your pass
• Start a fight over first tracks
• Go to work instead of calling in sick
• Complain
• Session the park

Now go out and get some without blowing it!


Article taken from SNOWBOARDER Magazine Issue 17.8