Yesterday was the kickoff for the world’s greatest all girls no boys allowed shredcation extraordinaire.  I left Tahoe with a truck full of gear, clothes and expectations Thursday morning and arrived in Salt Lake mere 9 hours later dirty and tired to find birthday cake and booze waiting for me.   Excellent.

Day one brought us to Brighton Resort in Big Cottonwood canyon and we were rolling 10 girls deep through their trees park and piste.   Surprisingly even though it hadn’t snowed all that recently there were still stashes of powder to be found.  Where I am from that would have been tracked packed and turned into mini moguls the day it snowed.   Instead we managed to find light fluffy white stuff hidden all over the mountain just waiting for us to find it.

Things I learned today include:

The number of fart jokes told is the same whether you ride with girls or boys
Bitches Never Move when you tell them to Get Out The Way
There are very few shred injuries that can’t be cured with booze, advil, and hot tubbing
A Train of 10 girls dropping cliffs will cause grown men to yell ‘Get it Girl’ from the chairlift like a high school teenager
Some people never lose that loving feeling
Even though it is technically English, some New Zealanders are impossible to understand… Grin and Nod, Grin and Nod
Champagne Snow is a myth

I wish I could present you with a nice long edit of day one, but the camera stopped working on the first run so please use your imagination to picture a train ten girls long snaking through Brighton’s trees. I’ll leave you with this delectable teaser of what is to come featuring EL’s favorite redhead:

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The Original Smarty pant is founded on the true bases and the foundation of quality. This pant was designed to be an outerwear pant. With many brands competing for style and fashion, 686 has stayed true to the premise of a snowboarder- quality, warmth and dryness.  686 landed on a design that has outlasted and out played many other outerwear brands. The 686 Original Cargo is a Must for the snowboarder who just loves snowboarding. What are you going to get in the Original Cargo Pant?

The Original Cargo pant is first and foremost going to keep you warm. It is not a fully insulated pant but it does come with an extra zip in compatible sweat liner. It makes the pant bearable on a summer day, but toasty in the dead of winter. For the summer shredders, one can simply unzip the liner out and your soaking in the rays and feeling cool. Maybe you’ll get a babe too? The pant has 15,000 waterproofing and 10,000 breathability. It is warm and dry. One of the best things about this pant is the amount of storage you get to carry. Just because Old Navy is not in style anymore doesn’t mean that cargo pockets are not useful. The pant has an array of different pocket styles and storage room. Keep your keys, phone, wallet, purse (maybe), iPod, hand warmers, gloves and whatever other obscure items you can think of stored in your pants while maintaining the comfort of not having them pressed against your leg! The Original Cargo pant is truly a great buy. Read the rest of this entry »