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PadawanWarrior

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I use to skateboard and snowboard. Now I just wakeboard. I prefer the water and a boat in the summer over a drive to Timberline in the snow to go snowboarding in the cold. I was born to board. :bigjoint:
Same here man. I moved to Tahoe just to snowboard for awhile. Truckee was fun as hell.
 

xtsho

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Same here man. I moved to Tahoe just to snowboard for awhile. Truckee was fun as hell.
Never been to Truckee. I've mainly boarded Timberline and Meadows on Hood but have done a couple trips to Mt Bachelor years ago.

When I first decided to take up wakeboarding I was into my 30's. Too old to skateboard and too busy to spend the time driving up to the mountain to snowboard. We'd get off work on Friday, hitch up the boat, and hit the Willamette river 20 minutes away and ride until dark. Then get up early Saturday and Sunday to get the morning glass before it became a zoo on the river. We'd have a few hours of riding in and headed home before all the yahoo's and their water ruining tubing started showing up.

For some reason I had thought that it wouldn't hurt because it was water. Boy was I wrong. Knee, back, shoulder, ankle, neck, you name it I've hurt it. And a couple concussions as well. When things go wrong and you're ten feet in the air, upside down, going 23 mph behind a boat that water will beat the crap out of you when you crash.
 

PadawanWarrior

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Never been to Truckee. I've mainly boarded Timberline and Meadows on Hood but have done a couple trips to Mt Bachelor years ago.

When I first decided to take up wakeboarding I was into my 30's. Too old to skateboard and too busy to spend the time driving up to the mountain to snowboard. We'd get off work on Friday, hitch up the boat, and hit the Willamette river 20 minutes away and ride until dark. Then get up early Saturday and Sunday to get the morning glass before it became a zoo on the river. We'd have a few hours of riding in and headed home before all the yahoo's and their water ruining tubing started showing up.

For some reason I had thought that it wouldn't hurt because it was water. Boy was I wrong. Knee, back, shoulder, ankle, neck, you name it I've hurt it. And a couple concussions as well. When things go wrong and you're ten feet in the air, upside down, going 23 mph behind a boat that water will beat the crap out of you when you crash.
Hell ya man. Mt. Hood rocks. We went there one summer since they were open year round. Sweet mountain man. I wish I got to ride the whole thing instead of just the top.

I'm from Seattle, so I grew up riding Steven's Pass, and Alpental. Alpental's one of my favorite mountains of all. Sick, steep shit. The west coast has way better and steeper mountains than here in CO. It's because the Rocky Mountains are older and have been eroded more so it's flatter than you'd think. There's many places where I have to build up massive speed so I don't stop in the flats and have to unstrap. I've ridden a lot of the West Coast. From BC to CA.

And fuck ya man. You can say that again. I thought the same shit. I went wakeboarding and it was super easy for me from the start, but I thought the same shit. It's only water, duh. Well water can fuck you up and can be harder than you think. Let's just say, if I went again I'd wear a cup. I was trying to do 180's and 360's and wasn't leaning back enough since I'm use to snow. Anyways, I never knew what an enema felt like, lol. And almost everytime I'd eat shit it felt like someone punched me in the nuts. My friend would circle around and ask if I was ready to go again, and I kept on having to say no man, give me a minute, lol.

 
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