When you are up in the North Island of Japan, there is no telling what the weather might bring. We landed at our final destination smack dab in the middle of nowhere. We met up with Pat Moore, Zach Leach and Heikki Sorsa in the airport and our crew was complete.
What do you do after winning the gold? Do you go and immediately pawn it for a VCR and a PS2? NO! But when you are in Aspen and Target has the biggest house on the mountain, you get together for a little dancing with all of your buddies!
There's a good chance that anyone who knows what snowboarding is has heard of Shaun White and probably through ESPN's Winter X Games. Shaun has grown with the X Games as they have grown. From Super-Modified Shovel Racing, to this year's first ever $1 Million prize purse; snowboarding, Shaun and Winter X have come a long way together. From grom on the hill to king on the podium, Shaun has proved himself at Winter X time and time again.
Shaun loves the early season. He spent the day lapping in Breckenridge, CO and trying to get the pipe legs back for the season. The Grand Prix is in town, which means most of the guys are in town too. The pipe was pretty good and the sun was out, felt like a perfect day in Colorado. Today is cloudy and looks like some snow is in the air. Here are a few pics from just cruising around yesterday.
Rolling into the Great Salt Lake State, the AST is back in Utah for way too many days. Prelims went down on Thursday, which makes for a long weekend, as Shaun doesn't skate in the Finals until Sunday night. There are a lot of hours in Salt Lake to come up with stuff to do between now and then.
