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The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.
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Dave Barry
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Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.
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Amit Ray (Enlightenment Step by Step)
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So, kiss the girl. Buy the dress. Take a vacation. Join the circus. Order the fried frog legs. Try out for the play. Learn to snowboard. Do something that scares the shit out of you. Or something that makes you happy. Or something that makes you cry. Whatever it is, do something that makes you feel. Because feeling nothing is no way to go through life.
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Valerie Thomas (From What I Remember...)
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When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in-you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we'regoing to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.
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Ian McEwan (Saturday)
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It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.
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Amit Ray
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The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.
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Mark Twight (Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber)
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Aphrodite took my snowboarding jacket,” she muttered. “Mugged by my own mom.” In the first row of the amphitheater, Jason found a blanket and wrapped it around her
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Better is being my friend and my partner and realizing that you don't get to make decisions for me. Better is the way you make me see myself as a person who's capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, Jameson, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I have on you - on us, against the world. You don't get to run off and take risks and expect me to stay behind in a gilded cage of your making. That isn't who you are, and it's not what I want.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3))
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Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.
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Mark Twight (Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber)
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I miss my old paycheck and the sense of pride, power, and worth that it gave me. I make a lot less money now. A lot less. But what I’ve lost in dollars, I’ve gained in time. I have time in the afternoons now to help Charlie and Lucy with their homework, to play Wii with them, to watch Charlie’s soccer games, to take a nap with Linus. I can’t wait to spend afternoons snowboarding. I have time to paint a portrait of Lucy (my only child who will sit still long enough) or the apples we picked at the local orchard. I have time to read novels, to meditate, to watch the deer walk across the backyard, to have dinner every night with my family. Less money, more time. So far, the trade-off has been worth every penny.
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Lisa Genova (Left Neglected)
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Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.
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Mark Twight (Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber)
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I GO SNOWBOARDING WITH A PIG
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Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3))
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The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.
The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.
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Jeremy Jones
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Random Guy: You can't snowboard? Want me to teach you?
Haruna: Huh?
Random Guy: You here with your friends? I am too, but do you want to board together?
Haruna: What? Could you be...hitting on me?
Random Guy: Haha. That's...an extremely direct way to put it, but yes, I'm hitting on you.
Haruna: Wait, I know. Is it that you have some kind of secret grudge against Komiyama Yoh?
Random Guy: Who?
Haruna: Or you're going to sell me, or take my money, or something?
Random Guy: Uh...No...
Haruna: You mean you're purely trying to pick me up?
Random Guy: Yes, purely...
Haruna: Yoh! I got hit on!
Random Guy: Oh, so your boyfriends here. Please excuse me.
Haruna: He was trying to pick me up! Isn't that incredible!
Yoh: It's not incredible!! Don't get picked up!!
Haruna: This is the first time that I've been hit on in my entire life!
Yoh: Don't get hit on up here! What are you so happy about?
Haruna: I'm not happy. It's more like... surprised?
Yoh: You should've hurried up and said no right away!
Haruna: Well, it was my first time getting hit on, so I'd never had to say no before, so I didn't know what to do and...
Yoh: In that situation, just hit the guy!
Hatuna: Whaaaat? With my fist?
Yoh: With your fist! Or just slap him!
Haruna: Understood. I'll hit them!
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Kazune Kawahara
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Now there was some motivation to get over this problem quickly. Chloe was a notorious betty.On the rare occasion when she graced the slopes with her prescence, boys zoomed toward her because she was so cute in her pink snowsuit,then zoomed away again as she lost control and threatened to crash into them.
She'd made the local snowboarding news a few years ago when she lost control at the bottom of the main run, boarded right through the open door of the ski lodge,skidded to a stop at the entrance to the cafe,and asked for a table for one.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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Of course you'll win!" Chloe exclaimed. "You'll probably beat nick in that race thing-"
"Boardercross," I corrected her.Chloe owned a snowboard,and thats about as far as her knowledge of the sport went.
"-And you'll blow him away in the trick part."
"Half pipe.And then there's the jump.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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Slide, turn, slide. I smile as we’re snowboarding, knowing that Bob and the kids are hanging back to watch me, knowing that Bob is probably smiling, too. I’m at the top of Rabbit Lane instead of the summit, and I’m on a handicapped snowboard instead of skis, but nothing about this experience feels less than 100 percent, less than perfect. I’m on the mountain with my family. I’m here. Slide, turn, slide, Smile...
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Lisa Genova (Left Neglected)
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We imagine ourselves in complex ways, but oftentimes that can be distilled down into some core identities. And we imagine these identities as part of a story, and that that story is some intrinsically positive thing. It might be being part of a tradition, or breaking free of one. It might be your race or height or hair color. Your status as a child or a parent. Being a job creator or a Star Wars fan or a snowboarder. We create positive narratives around these things, and when we fit in them, we feel like we matter.
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Hank Green (A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2))
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I offered to pass along information about NEHSA to Heidi so she can let her patients know about it. I don’t have any scientific or clinical data to back this up, but I think snow-boarding is the most effective rehabilitative tool I’ve experienced. It forces me to focus on my abilities and not my disability, to overcome huge obstacles, both physical and psychological, to stay up on that board and get down the mountain in one piece. And each time I get down the mountain in one piece, I gain a real confidence and sense of independence I haven’t felt anywhere else since the accident, a sense of true well-being that stays with me well beyond the weekend. And whether snowboarding with NEHSA has a measurable and lasting therapeutic effect for people like me or not, it’s a lot more fun than drawing cats and picking red balls up off a tray
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Lisa Genova (Left Neglected)
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Harvard neuroscientists Jason Mitchell and Diana Tamir found that disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding. In one study, Mitchell and Tamir hooked subjects up to brain scanners and asked them to share either their own opinions and attitudes (“I like snowboarding”) or the opinions and attitudes of another person (“He likes puppies”). They found that sharing personal opinions activated the same brain circuits that respond to rewards like food and money. So talking about what you did this weekend might feel just as good as taking a delicious bite of double chocolate cake.
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Jonah Berger (Contagious: Why Things Catch On)
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Aphrodite took my snowboarding jacket', she murmured. 'Mugged by my own mom.
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Snowboards are not built to knock someone out. Right now, that is a major design flaw.
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Kirsty McCay
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You go up into the mountains empty, even with no lunch, you come home full.
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Eric Blehm (The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him)
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It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying.
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Eric Blehm (The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him)
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Why thank you, little lady,' Dan answers, sounding more like John Wayne than me. He flexes his muscles. 'Let me strap on my manly board and show you what I can really do.
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Leslea Wahl (The Perfect Blindside)
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All my parents wanted was the open road and a VW camper van. That was enough escape for them. The ocean, the night sky, some acoustic guitar.. what more could you ask? Well, actually, you could ask to go soaring off the side of a mountain on a snowboard, feeling as if, for one moment you are riding the clouds instead of the snow. You could scour Southeast Asia, like the world weary twenty somethings in Alex Garland’s novel The Beach, looking for the one corner of the globe uncharted by the Lonely Planet to start your own private utopia. You could, for the matter, join a new age cult and dream of alien abduction. From the occult to raves to riots it seems that the eternal urge for escape has never enjoyed such niche marketing.
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Naomi Klein (No Logo)
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Here’s a handy list of warning signs of the worst people on the road. Some are tuned-out menaces, others are just assholes. Be alert, and if you see this on a vehicle close to you, get away now. STICK FIGURE FAMILY: I hereby decree that you are allowed to accelerate to ramming speed every time you see a minivan with a silhouette of the family and their names on the rear window. We get it, you didn’t pull out. Is that information you really think I’m interested in? I know you’re a parent. You’re driving a Plymouth Voyager with two hundred thousand miles on it; do you imagine I’m behind you thinking, “Who is that gay entrepreneur?” Even worse is the theme family. Oh, you’re into snowboarding? Oh, you’ve got cats? Oh, they’ve all got Mickey ears, they must really love Disney. You know what I love? Driving more than fifty-three miles an hour. How about a stick figure depiction of your family moving the fuck over and letting me get to work on time?
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Adam Carolla (President Me: The America That's in My Head)
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I nodded, impressed. “Jeez, Howard, you’re turning into a real mogul.” Howard grinned. “You know what moguls are, right?” “Uh …” “The buried bodies of forty-something men who took up snowboarding.
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Dennis E. Taylor (Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4))
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I turn to look at Jake. “You’re running from a bunch of eight-year-olds?”
The rambunctious groups starts to point at the library and clamors toward the door, ready to enter.
Jake looks at me. “They scare me. Can you please help me out?
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Leslea Wahl (The Perfect Blindside)
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She stood in the middle of my bedroom, gazing around with wide eyes. I hadn’t made my bed. In three years. And the walls were plastered with wakeboarding posters and snowboarding posters and surfing posters (I was going to learn to snowboard and surf someday, too). It all might have been overwhelming at first-not exactly House Beautiful.
“Is this McGillicuddy’s room?” she asked.
“What! No. McGillicuddy’s a neat freak. Also he collects Madame Alexander dolls.”
She turned her wide eyes on me.
“Kidding! I’m kidding,” I backtracked. Why did I have to make up stuff like that? My family was weird enough for real.
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Jennifer Echols (Endless Summer (The Boys Next Door, #1-2))
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Jason grins. “I’d never miss your birthday. Remember last year?”
“Ugh! I thought I’d never thaw out after we went skiing in a blizzard. We were stranded for three days in that cabin we found in the woods.”
“Aw, come on, you didn’t even get frostbite. I took care of you.”
“At least I didn’t end up with any broken limbs. That time.”
“I still can’t believe we went snow-boarding on East Pillar Mountain Loop. That’s a tough trail, and then you broke your arm slipping in the parking lot on the way to the truck.”
My muscles were exhausted, and carrying my board on my shoulder, I wasn’t watching where I was going. I didn’t see the patch of ice. “Remember when you took me spelunking?”
“I had no idea that bear was in there.”
“I can’t remember ever being that scared.”
“But it was fun! Come on. We can’t break tradition.
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Rita J. Webb (Playing Hooky (Paranormal Investigations, #1))
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...Following the bird you lay into a deep turn in the steepening descent. It [the snow] is super soft, bottomless and amazingly light, yet supportive. It feels like something in between floating on top, and within the top of a deep-pile carpet as you link turn after turn down the open glacier. Each side of you are fellow riders, though not too close, whooping with exhilaration and flying down, down towards the valley below. The pitch gets steeper and the slope widens out, with seemingly endless space to the sides and an untracked oblivion ahead and beneath you. Each turn is delicious softness; you can almost feel every snow crystal reacting with the base of your skis. Those skis feel like extensions of your feet, and you connect with the mountain through a portal link created by the snowpack, as the spray from the turn hangs in the air behind you...
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Steve Baldwin (Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis)
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Better is being my friend and my partner and realizing that you don’t get to make decisions for me. Better is the way you make me see myself as a person who’s capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, Jameson, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I have on you—on us, against the world. You don’t get to run off and take risks and expect me to stay behind in a gilded cage of your making. That isn’t who you are, and it’s not what I want.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3))
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I recalled with some discomfort that the man driving the vehicle had invented the sport of volcano boarding, presumably as a way of solving, in one deft move, the problems of the insufficient riskiness of both snowboarding and hanging out on the slopes of active volcanoes. Although I was not sure that I wanted to live forever, I was sure that I didn’t want to go down in a blaze of chintzy irony, plunging into a ravine strapped into the passenger seat of a thing called the Immortality Bus.
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Mark O'Connell (To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death)
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EVEN BEFORE HE GOT ELECTROCUTED, Jason was having a rotten day. He woke in the backseat of a school bus, not sure where he was, holding hands with a girl he didn’t know. That wasn’t necessarily the rotten part. The girl was cute, but he couldn’t figure out who she was or what he was doing there. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, trying to think. A few dozen kids sprawled in the seats in front of him, listening to iPods, talking, or sleeping. They all looked around his age…fifteen? Sixteen? Okay, that was scary. He didn’t know his own age. The bus rumbled along a bumpy road. Out the windows, desert rolled by under a bright blue sky. Jason was pretty sure he didn’t live in the desert. He tried to think back…the last thing he remembered… The girl squeezed his hand. “Jason, you okay?” She wore faded jeans, hiking boots, and a fleece snowboarding jacket. Her chocolate brown hair was cut choppy and uneven, with thin strands braided down the sides. She wore no makeup like she was trying not to draw attention to herself, but it didn’t work. She was seriously pretty. Her eyes seemed to change color like a kaleidoscope—brown, blue, and green. Jason let go of her hand. “Um, I don’t—” In the front of the bus, a teacher shouted, “All right, cupcakes, listen up!” The guy was obviously a coach. His baseball cap was pulled low over his hair, so you could just see his beady eyes. He had a wispy goatee and a sour face, like he’d eaten something moldy. His buff arms and chest pushed against a bright orange polo shirt. His nylon workout pants and Nikes were spotless white. A whistle hung from his neck, and a megaphone was clipped to his belt. He would’ve looked pretty scary if he hadn’t been five feet zero. When he stood up in the aisle, one of the students called, “Stand up, Coach Hedge!” “I heard that!” The coach scanned the bus for the offender. Then his eyes fixed on Jason, and his scowl deepened. A jolt went down Jason’s spine. He was sure the coach knew he didn’t belong there. He was going to call Jason out, demand to know what he was doing on the bus—and Jason wouldn’t have a clue what to say. But Coach Hedge looked away and cleared his throat. “We’ll arrive in five minutes! Stay with your partner. Don’t lose your worksheet. And if any of you precious little cupcakes causes any trouble on this trip, I will personally send you
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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EVEN BEFORE HE GOT ELECTROCUTED, Jason was having a rotten day. He woke in the backseat of a school bus, not sure where he was, holding hands with a girl he didn’t know. That wasn’t necessarily the rotten part. The girl was cute, but he couldn’t figure out who she was or what he was doing there. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, trying to think. A few dozen kids sprawled in the seats in front of him, listening to iPods, talking, or sleeping. They all looked around his age…fifteen? Sixteen? Okay, that was scary. He didn’t know his own age. The bus rumbled along a bumpy road. Out the windows, desert rolled by under a bright blue sky. Jason was pretty sure he didn’t live in the desert. He tried to think back…the last thing he remembered… The girl squeezed his hand. “Jason, you okay?” She wore faded jeans, hiking boots, and a fleece snowboarding jacket. Her chocolate brown hair was cut choppy and uneven, with thin strands braided down the sides. She wore no makeup like she was trying not to draw attention to herself, but it didn’t work. She was seriously pretty. Her eyes seemed to change color like a kaleidoscope—brown, blue, and green. Jason let go of her hand. “Um, I don’t—” In the front of the bus, a teacher shouted, “All right, cupcakes, listen up!” The guy was obviously a coach. His baseball cap was pulled low over his hair, so you could just see his beady eyes. He had a wispy goatee and a sour face, like he’d eaten something moldy. His buff arms and chest pushed against a bright orange polo shirt. His nylon workout pants and Nikes were spotless white. A whistle hung from his neck, and a megaphone was clipped to his belt. He would’ve looked pretty scary if he hadn’t been five feet zero. When he stood up in the aisle, one of the students called, “Stand up, Coach Hedge!” “I heard that!” The coach scanned the bus for the offender. Then his eyes fixed on Jason, and his scowl deepened. A jolt went down Jason’s spine. He was sure the coach knew he didn’t belong there. He was going to call Jason out, demand to know what he was doing on the bus—and Jason wouldn’t have a clue what to say. But Coach Hedge looked away and cleared his throat. “We’ll arrive in five minutes! Stay with your partner. Don’t lose your worksheet. And if any of you precious little cupcakes causes any trouble on this trip, I will personally send you back to campus the hard way.
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Our branding emanated from my experience in the surf, skate, and snowboard industry where brands were created by being anti-establishment. This created a “tribe” who then created a social movement that others wanted to emulate (this is not really different from the luxury company whose advertised tribe is jet-setting models whose lives are unattainable by 99 percent of their customers). These are the subtleties of how word-of-mouth branding works, as described in the book The Tipping Point41. Christine’s reaction to this
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Chip Wilson (Little Black Stretchy Pants)
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Grab it to go!” She reached out and touched his arm. “It’ll be fun, I promise.” Sam had dated girls before. There was no reason for me to want Alice to go snowboard off a cliff.
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Keira Andrews (Only One Bed (Love on the Ice #1))
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Surfing is the first lifestyle sport. X Game staples like skateboarding and snowboarding were inspired directly by surfing. Being a surfer involves a different level of commitment from being a golfer or basketball player. Surfing is more than an athletic pursuit that you do a couple days a week at a course or in a gym. Even when surfers are out of the water, they are watching the weather, tides, and wind, monitoring distant swell patterns, and mentally tuning in the ocean. Surfing defines your life, in the same way that work—being a farmer or a carpenter or a blacksmith—used to define people’s lives. Forty years ago Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock called surfers “a signpost pointing to the future” for their embrace of a leisure-time “lifestyle,” and in this case Toffler was right.
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Peter Westwick (The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing)
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Mezi lidmi, kteří v posledním roce jezdili na snowboardu, je poměr 41 ku 15 ve prospěch pravice. Snowboard je tedy, zdá se, spíše pravicový. To ovšem může být dáno i tím, že vyznavači jednoho prkna jsou oproti průměru mladší, pocházejí z větších měst a bohatších domácností.
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Daniel Prokop (Slepé skvrny)
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Author Britton Taylor lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his sweet Labrador, Daisy May.
Besides spending time with her, he enjoys snowboarding, watching documentaries, and
rooting for his beloved sports teams—Go Cowboys, Rockets, Astros, and Runnin’ Rebels!
Mr. Taylor wanted to share what a beautiful and loving soul Daisy May is and felt a
children’s book would be the best way to convey that. Daisy May is an exceptionally
special dog, and Mr. Taylor is certain that the world will love her just as much as he does.
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Britton Taylor (Daisy May Goes Out To Play)
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Author Britton Taylor lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his sweet Labrador, Daisy May.
Besides spending time with her, he enjoys snowboarding, watching documentaries, and
rooting for his beloved sports teams—Go Cowboys, Rockets, Astros, VGK and Runnin’ Rebels!
Mr. Taylor wanted to share what a beautiful and loving soul Daisy May is and felt a
children’s book would be the best way to convey that. Daisy May is an exceptionally
special dog, and Mr. Taylor is certain that the world will love her just as much as he does.
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Britton Taylor (Daisy May Goes Out To Play)
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I’d dosed Brad with his own chloroform, slapped duct tape over his gag, and shoved him into Aly’s snowboard bag. While she made us coffee for the road,
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Navessa Allen (Lights Out)
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Gulmarg in December is a winter wonderland nestled in the heart of the Indian Himalayas. As the first snowflakes blanket the landscape, the entire region transforms into a picturesque paradise. The quaint town of Gulmarg becomes a hub for snow enthusiasts, offering a myriad of activities such as skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing. The Gulmarg Gondola, one of the highest cable cars in the world, provides breathtaking views of the snow-capped peaks. Adventure-seekers can also explore the pristine forests on snowmobiles or enjoy a serene horse-drawn sledge ride. The cozy hotels and cottages offer warm hospitality and delicious Kashmiri cuisine, making Gulmarg in December an idyllic destination for a winter getaway amidst nature's splendor.
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Winter Wonderland Gulmarg in December
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I swallowed, trying to focus on the cat on my laptop screen. The kitty was cute, and really good at snowboarding. He deserved my full attention.
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Jenna Levine (My Roommate Is a Vampire)
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WOULDN’T LOSE another kid on his watch. If the homecoming queen was out here, he intended to find her. Even if he had to trek through the entire western edge of Glacier National Park, beat every bush, climb every peak. Unless, of course, Romeo had been lying. “How far up the trail did the kid say they were?” Behind him, Gage Watson shined his flashlight against the twisted depths of forest. A champion snowboarder, Gage looked the part with his long dark brown hair held back in a man bun. But he also had keen outdoor instincts and now worked as an EMT on the PEAK Rescue team during the summer. An owl hooted. A screech ricocheted through
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Susan May Warren (Rescue Me (Montana Rescue #2))
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You’ve saved your money and bought a ticket to Fashion Week in Milan. All the world’s great clothing designers will be showing their startling and beautiful designs. You’ll be one of the first to see them!
Or picture yourself in Rome. You’re at a performance of the opera Aïda, written by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. You’re seated amid eighteen-hundred-year-old ruins under a starry sky, listening to magnificent music.
You’ve got your snowboard and warm clothing so you can glide down the slopes the world’s greatest skiers took during the 2006 Winter Olympics near Turin. Or perhaps it’s summer, and you’re going to explore the sea caves of Capri, off the coast of Naples. Later, you can take a look at the towering columns at Agrigento, among the temples the ancient Greeks built on the island of Sicily long before Italy existed.
In any one of these places, you might be one of the millions of tourists who visit Italy every year. But alongside the tourists are Italians, also appreciative of the wonders of their own country.
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Jean Blashfield Black (Italy (Enchantment of the World Second Series))
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Scores climb with titles, from the bottom of the corporate ladder upward toward middle management. Middle managers stand out, with the highest EQ scores in the workforce. But up beyond middle management, there is a steep downward trend in EQ scores. For the titles of director and above, scores descend faster than a snowboarder on a black diamond. CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.
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Travis Bradberry (Emotional Intelligence 2.0)
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Am mai aflat că habar nu am ce-mi doresc şi că nu ştiu deloc să-mi programez prorităţile, că sunt suficient de lipsit de simţ de conservare, încât să preiau stările joase şi proaste ale mediului cu care vin în contact.
Nu încerc să vorbesc despre vreo iluminare şi nici nu vreau să îţi vând vreo metodă rapidă de a scăpa de riduri, de kilograme în plus şi de alte forme de distragere a atenţiei.
Dar pentru că inevitabil sufăr şi mă revolt la vederea acestui uriaş ghişeu închis la care ne cocoşăm cu toţii, mi se pare necesar să contrabalansez cumva neîntrerupta predică despre cât e de rău să fii în viaţă. Şi pentru că am grijă să mai merg din când în când cu metroul, pentru că uneori ajung în locuri sau instituţii atât de sordide şi de triste, pe lângă care jurnalul de la ora cinci e o transmisiune din Bahamas, cred că e bine să vorbim despre cum ne îmbolnăvim (aproape singuri) de tristeţe şi de nemulţumire.
Ca de obicei, unele soluţii vin din direcţii complet nepotrivite cu logica omului strivit de neputinţa de a ridica ochii din ligheanul cu mânie şi lacrimi.
La primele lecţii de snowboarding, am aflat cu surprindere că, pentru a te îndrepta (exact) în direcţia în care vrei să mergi, trebuie să întinzi o mână într-acolo.
Pare o tâmpenie, dar la fel te învaţă şi artele marţiale, să te uiţi întotdeauna la ceea ce faci, să-ţi urmăreşti gesturile, pentru că faci parte din ele şi pentru că numai aşa le duci corect până la capăt. Şi mi-am dat seama că de multe ori întind mâna, mâinile, în toate direcţiile în acelaşi timp.
Vreau să slăbesc, să mănânc, să văd un film şi să merg la muntele Athos fix în acelaşi timp, ceea ce ţi se întâmplă cu siguranţă şi ţie. Vrei să fii fericit taman când eşti ocupat să te asiguri că eşti foarte fericit.
Să avansezi în timp ce îţi pui piedică şi să faci planuri luminoase fără pic de încredere. Totul e relativ, bineînţeles, dar intenţia e singura care contează şi moare - sau prima, sau ultima.
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Răzvan Exarhu (Fericirea e un ac de siguranță)
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From our shop in Colorado to our many overseas locations, Donek can provide you with a variety of custom snowboard options, wherever you are. Our variety of designs and custom specs will make your board truly unique. Contact Donek Snowboards today for more information
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Donek Snowboards
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Olle Häggström (Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity)
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Olle Häggström (Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity)
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T.S. Krupa (On the Edge)
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T.S. Krupa (On the Edge)
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Jason faced Kristen: Truth be, he's not a skier. But he use to be hell with a snowboard.
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Susan Meier (A Mistletoe Kiss with the Boss (Harlequin Romance))
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Heart-dented and wiser, I avoid the hot-shot guys around town. No rugby players in the summer. No snow-boarders in the winter. No bartenders. No white water rafting guys or fly-fishermen. No guides. Definitely no cowboys.
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Are you more into Dostoevsky or Bukawski?”, he smugly asked — trying to show off his literary knowledge.
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Taking a deep breath, he tucked his shoulders forward and loosened his posture. In an instant he was transformed from an ageless, elegant elf to a slouching human snowboarder. “Humans see only what they expect to see,” he said. “Come on, Pippin. You can pretend to be my dog.” I barked in excitement as Aliiana removed my saddle. I trotted along beside Nelathen as we approached a convenience store on the outskirts of town. “Remember not to talk,” he said as we entered the store through automatic sliding glass doors. I woofed obediently. “Hey,” a poorly-groomed human teenager said from the counter. “Heyyy,” Nelathen drawled, perfectly imitating a Utah human accent. Nelathen wandered around the store, grabbing several bags of organic trail mix, some fresh fruit, and a loaf of whole-grain, organic cranberry bread. “Not as good as elven bread, but it’s passable,” he said in a low voice. He also picked up a bag of Uncle Rover’s Super Yummy Bacon Strips for Dogs. “You deserve a treat,” he said, smiling down at me. I wagged my little nubbin of a tail enthusiastically. Nelathen laid our purchases on the counter, and added a Montana road map. “Cool dog,” the teenager behind the counter remarked as he scanned the items. I remembered that I was supposed to be posing as a regular dog, but I couldn’t help but bark at the compliment. “We’re on our way to the park,” Nelathen said. “Anything we should know about?” The scruffy teenager shrugged. “Snow pack’s good for boarding. They said it sounded like someone was dynamiting east of Lake McDonald Lodge last week, but they couldn’t find anyone. Maybe seismic activity, they said.” “Hmm.” Nelathen paid for our items with human cash. “Thanks.” “Okay, dude. Have fun.
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The surreal part was, the surf at Newcastle Beach was cranking, so here I was, on a pristine afternoon, getting sunburnt as hell, the day after I’d been snowboarding in a tiny inland town in Canada.
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Mark Donaldson (The Crossroad)
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As I stood, I saw Josh crouched in the seat behind us. I’d thought he’d sat in the back of the bus. Maybe he had, but then he’d worked his way up the aisle for eavesdropping. When we locked eyes and he realized he was busted, he dashed past me down the aisle as best he could in snowboarding boots and disappeared through the door.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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What are you going to do, tell on me because I won a snowboarding contest?”
“That’s exactly what I’m going to do,” he called haughtily over his shoulder.
Uh-oh. I definitely did not want my parents butting into my business, especially not about this. “You had better not,” I shouted after him. “Do you hear me, O’Malley? I will tell Gavin’s sister you slept with a stuffed bunny rabbit until you were in middle school, so help me God!”
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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Dad set his own plate at the table and sat down. He drew out the torture, taking a bite, chewing slowly, staring a hole through me without speaking.
Finally I said, “Good morning, respected padre.”
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I sniffed. “Did you really wake me up early during my winter break just so you could make a sarcastic comment to Josh?”
Josh stuck out his tongue at me, then took a huge bite of pancake.
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We don’t always get to decide which course we go down or know which mountains we’ll face. Yet we always have the most important choice there is: whether to resist, or to give ourselves over to the twists and turns of the terrain. As it goes in snowboarding, so it goes in life.
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I got to the point where nearly every flight was almost pure joy. I say almost because, even today, there is the residual anxiety before each flight, the knot in the stomach, that tells me I’m not a fool, that I know I’m taking a calculated risk in pitting my skill and control against a complex, tightly coupled, unstable system with a lot of energy in it. I’ll always be the tiny jockey on a half-ton of hair-trigger muscle. Fear puts me in my place. It gives me the humility to see things as they are. I get the same feeling before I go rock climbing or surfing or before I slap on my snowboard and plunge off into a backcountry wilderness that could swallow me up and not spit me out again.
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