It’s the first day of April, wow what a season and it’s rapidly winding down. Today was a holiday on the mountain, April Fools Day or Gaper Day. It’s had some issues at mountains but this is a day that is about dressing up and having fun. It’s considered a day for locals and today at Steamboat was the perfect day for locals…amazing powder and the last thing I cared about was gapers.
Today was all captured on vholdr cam with the exception of Andrew’s footage of me riding at the beginning.
My one-piece stayed in the closet and I made the decision to not be an issue for my employer. Because I made that choice I was able to get up early, get first tracks (load the gondola before the rest of the public) and enjoy a very amazing powder day. I love what I do and tourists pay for what I do…so I’ll enjoy a day of powder on them.
I enjoyed the morning with co-workers snowboarding and skiing together. I can tell you the first two runs with no one on the runs with us and just floating through powder, waist deep, knee deep was insane.
A shot of me riding through the powder
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This was on one of the first runs, powder and aspens
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The best part about today other than the powder was riding with people that were willing to take photos of me. I generally take a lot of photos of friends but it’s hard to ever get a photo of myself on the mountain. Likewise with video, but today I had people willing to to get shots so everyone had something.
Shot of me towards the end of the morning, getting some leftover pow
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Rochelle’s dust storm of snow during a fall
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Plenty of people in one-pieces and costumes but this year I rode more powder than taking photos of them.
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My favorite
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