Snowboarding!!!

Since 1982 Stratton Mountain (in Vermont) has been hosting the US Open Snowboarding Championships. It is the largest snowboarding event in North America. Last year the competition drew over 10,000 spectators and 280 competitors. Now that snowboarding is an Olympic sport, the USA Open Snowboarding Championships is going to be a lot more popular. The USA Open Snowboarding Championship is happening March 19-22,1998, so by the time you read this, it will be over! I tried snowboarding and found out that I'm NOT going to be in the US Open Snowboarding Championships for a very long time! The events are Super-G, Duel Salom, Boardcross and Halfpipe. What's Halfpipe?! Halfpipe is where the competitors go over a U shaped track and do jumps off the sides. After they're done, the judges give the snowboarders scores depending on how creative and fancy the run was. This is what a Halfpipe track looks like :

This Halfpipe is from Killington in Vemont.

If you saw the Olympics you probably know that Ross Powers won a bronze medal. But did you know that he's from South Londonderry, Vermont. Ross won a medal in the Halfpipe competition (please don't make me go over what Halfpipe is again but click here if you don't remember what Halfpipe is). If you are a skier that would like to switch to snowboarding... Vermont is the place for you. Or you skiers that think snowboarding is cool but are afraid to try it ... Vermont's still the place for you. And for you triple black diamond snowboarders ... I bet you can guess what I'm going to say next and if you can't here's what I was going to say, Vermont is STILL the place for you. If you aren't that far away from Vermont you should come and try snowboarding here. If you're the kind of person who likes adventures in the great outdoors you should come north, south, east or west to Vermont. Snowboarding in Vermont is an adventure (that hurts like crazy the next morning). Dare ya!!!