Morning sun warmed my face as I filled my lungs with cold mountain air and studied the hard-packed surface of the rolling ski slope before me. Attempting to soothe my bruised psyche, I exhaled a ...
Learning to snowboard is a test of patience, balance, and pure resilience, especially when trying airborne tricks for the ...
Most people who snowboard begin by the age of six. Maybe seven. But 70? I had planned a ski trip to Timberline Lodge at Mount Hood, and resolved to try snowboarding instead. It should be simple, I ...
Back in the late 1990s, when I was learning to snowboard, there was no chance of being upstaged by a preternaturally talented pre-schooler whizzing past and pulling a 360 at the side of the piste on ...
For the next year, the phrase “On the Edge” will have a dual meaning for Macomb Daily copy editor Don Gardner. As he approaches age 40, he’s not over the hill, but he certainly is within reach of the ...
I’m on the nursery slopes at Geils, above the charming village of Adelboden in Switzerland. I have one foot free and the other strapped to the board which I drag, with a Quasimodo-style lurch, to ...