Think Thank park laps up at Brighton with Ted Borland, Brendon Hupp, Ben Bogart, and Chris Larson
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“It’s like cheating, it really is. That’s what they (skiers) said about snowboarding. Then they decided: ‘We should cheat, too.'” Jeremy Nelson, about the ease of using the new skis Â
Erick Ward keeps answering the same question — especially on a powder day. Does he miss snowboarding?
“Not at all, I haven’t really thought about it,” says Ward, who lives in Bend. “I haven’t missed it at all.”
Ward, 42, is … More
Because I can.†That’s why Evan Strong, a Maui kid with one and a half legs, wanted to learn to snowboard just more than four years ago.
The statement rings of George Mallory, the British climber who, more than 90 years ago, told a New York Times reporter he wanted to climb Mt. Everest “because it’s there.â€
But Strong utters the phrase with a sense of wonder, rather than of defiance.
The 24-year-old who now  … Details & Pictures