Hi SNOWBOARD MAG,

My name is Chue Chang, I am 25 years old and I was born, raised and live in Long Beach California.

At the present, I work 40 hrs a week, monday - friday full time at a construction company. I also go to school 3 nights a week at Long Beach State.

My closest resorts are MT HIGH, MT BALDY, SNOW SUMMIT and BIG BEAR. They are all about a 1 1/2 to 2 hour drive away, which is pretty far considering how much snowboarding I want to do. I want to snowboard at least 100 days a year, but I know that could never happen unless I live in a resort town. I also make trips to Mammoth once or twice a year when I have the chance.

In early fall, I try and find out which resort opens first and I go ride as early as I can in the season. I rode Mammoth twice already. The only times I can snowboard are friday nights and than sunday, at one of the above. If I am itching to ride, I will skip homework and go snowboarding on saturday too. I failed like 2 classes last semester because I went snowboarding so much and did not do homework. I have also called in sick to work 5+ times and almost gotten fired because I went snowboarding, especially if I knew it was going to be a pow day.

I know I work hard to go snowboarding. I think about it everyday. I watch/research snowboard videos, websites and magazines at least once a day for the past year and a half. I have gotten into fights and quarrels with my older sisters, brothers and parents because I would snowboard so much. They were complaining that I am supposed to help the family with my spare time and that I was not spending enough time at home.

They do not understand and I wish they could, because there is no other feeling in the world when going down that mountain full speed, at one with your snowboard and shredding that pow. There is no other feeling like it in the world and thats why I go snowboarding. To be at one with nature, my board and myself.

I also feel that I am less fortunate than most snowboarders my age because:

My parents could NEVER afford to drive me to those resorts, even if I started young. I did not get a car till I was 22 years old and did not get a chance to try snowboarding till I was 23 yrs old, which is pretty late compared to other people my age, who I know have many years of snowboarding behind them. Which is really helpful, especially if you want to be good. I feel that people who started early are more privileged because they got all those years behind them.

I am 1 of 10 kids in my family and grew up in the ghetto. My parents were refugees from the Vietnam war and know little english. My ethnicity is called "hmong" and barely any Hmong people go snowboarding. I LOVE snowboarding so much though, I actually wanted to start a non-profit organization, where I would introduce snowboarding to poor under privileged hmong kids who will never get the chance to experience snowboarding. I am planning to save up some of my money to help start my organization. The endeavor snowboard would make a nice contribution to a person less fortunate than I am. I am just lucky and fortunate enough to go snowboarding.

Thank you,
SNOWBOARD MAG

Chue Chang

I have a hard time getting to the mountain cuz your mother is too much of a nympho and wont let me leave her room. horrible

-support local-

Hi Guys,

I'm Santos, and just snowboarding for a few years now. I got my snowboard with a too expensive cell phone subscription. The cell phone is long gone, phone company doesn't exsist anymore but i still got my crappy board.
I live in The Netherlands, the flattest country in the world, me and my friends drive 8-10 hours to Austria or France for some fun and action every 3-4 weeks.
All our money goes into petrol and roadtaxes, so we can't afford new boards..
That's why i really need a new board.

I'd like to nominate my brother for a chance to win the Endeavor High 5. He is currently a college student in Washington state. Our father passed away suddenly a year ago and my mother has not been able to help him financially so he has had to work really hard to pay for school. He doesn't have the money for new shred gear and I know he would really appreciate this board. He teaches snowboarding and is constantly sharing the stoke with everyone he meets. Through the tough times our family has gone through he has always kept a positive outlook and love for snowboarding. I know that he would love this board and be forever thankful to Endeavor.

Thank you for considering my brother.

Nov 28, 2008 4:30 PM
Man I live in Colorado so one would think that I have it pretty easy... Not so much the case with lift tickets being so damn expensive now a days and of course the cost of good equipment. Dude it's not easy as a poor college student living in Pueblo Co. I work at a hotel full time year round just so save enough cash to get a Colorado Pass to ride Summit County. $450 bucks is a lot to shell out for a kid that is paying his own tuition and supporting him self. But I do it because I live to ride.. Some people feel at peace at church or with family but me I am most at peace when I am blazing down my favorite run, making first tracks in the trees, or getting jiggy in the park.. I can't explain it, it just is! That for me is perfection. This season is not a good one for me classes are wicked hard, work is so busy, the economy is crap, and to top it all off my deck is trashed and I am in need of a new one bad... I was thinking maybe Christmas? But I don't think thats going to happen! I make the trek to Keystone twice a week all season long.. Round trip from my house is 6 hours.. That's nothing to me even if I have to ride ice sheets of man mad snow for just one run... Its well worth every minute of the drive. I live, eat, sleep, and effen love snowboarding I for sure would marry it and make sweet sweet love and little baby snowboard-Dane Hybrids... So please guys I need this deck! Hook a brother up!

I LOVE TO SNOWBOARD!!!

I've been an East Coast​ rider​ for the past six years​.​ Last winte​r I decid​ed I would​ try to live the dream​ and move out to Lake Tahoe​.​ I got a job as a barte​nder and waite​r in a tiny backw​oods town in Vermo​nt to save up money​ for the move.​ I had never​ worke​d in a resta​urant​ befor​e,​ and had to deal with weeke​nd vacat​ioner​s actin​g like dicks​ to me. That wasn'​t so bad, howev​er then there​ was the stres​s of being​ a barte​nder alone​ with the neare​st polic​e offic​er forty​ five minut​es away,​ and an unrul​y bi-​polar​ drunk​ wanti​ng to fight​ me becau​se I told him to stop haras​sing one of the women​ at the bar. Upon getti​ng him to the door he punch​ed me in the face befor​e I was able to lock him out. He then punch​ed out the windo​w tryin​g to get back in and start​ed kicki​ng and spitt​ing all over my car until​ he disap​peare​d.​ Anywa​y,​ after​ sever​al month​s of that,​ I loade​d up my car (​after​ havin​g to dump well over $​1500 dolla​rs worth​ of brake​ and front​ axel work,​ plus new snow tires​ and chain​s to make sure it would​ run alrig​ht when I was out there​)​ and set out on my 3000 mile journ​ey to Lake Tahoe​.​ Somew​here in Illin​ois,​ my brake​ light​ comes​ on. I figur​e it's proba​bly just the fluid​ becau​se after​ my mecha​nic repla​ced almos​t every​ compo​nent of my brake​s,​ there​ could​n'​t be anyth​ing serio​usly wrong​,​ right​?​ Wrong​.​ I was sort of right​,​ it was low on brake​ fluid​.​ I bough​t some,​ threw​ it in, and then I was off again​.​ forty​ miles​ later​ light​ comes​ on, as I appro​ach the upcom​ing exit,​ I press​ my brake​ pedal​.​.​.​nothi​ng.​ So I'm on the freew​ay with my entir​e life packe​d in my car and no way to stop it. Lucki​ly I read that the best thing​ to do is to put your car in neutr​al,​ turn off the engin​e,​ and oh yeah.​.​.​pray.​ It worke​d and after​ getti​ng towed​ in to a mecha​nics,​ they infor​med me that the brake​ lines​ had compl​etely​ ruste​d throu​gh and it was a $​1500 job to fix it. As my car was barel​y worth​ that much anywa​y,​ I said "No thank​s"​ rente​d a miniv​an,​ ditch​ed my car somew​here in Illin​ois,​ and drove​ the rest of the way out to Tahoe​ where​ I haven​'​t even been able to ride yet becau​se there​ is no snow,​ and North​star still​ hasn'​t even opene​d.​ So inste​ad I spend​ my days on the inter​net enter​ing Snowb​oard mag conte​sts and watch​ing movie​s.​ Also I still owe $3000 dollars on the car I ditched in Illinois. I am slowl​y going​ insan​e.​.​.​the end

Dear end and snowboard mag,
This summer i busted balls and saved my money. I missed out on a lot of bar nights and cabin trips cuz i was working nights in a warehouse. I was living in Winnipeg, Manitoba (aka middle of the prairies) where snowboarding consists of one thing, riding park. My home resort (although its ridiculous to call it a resort) was Stony Mountain which has a whopping 50ft. of elevation, 2 tow ropes, a table, and a few rails. But despite this I love snowboarding. So after graduating high school and taking my first year of uni, I knew there was only one thing to do. Go West. So as I said I made all the money i could and did just that. Now I'm living just outside of Banff and trying to go as long as i can without getting a job (in order to optimize shred time). So now im scraping by living off soup and macaroni. But the important part is im shredding every possible moment. My only problem now is that I dont know how long my board is gunna hold out. My board has gone through 2 seasons of prairie riding and jibbing has takin its toll. So what the board would mean to me is saving about a months worth of rent and food. The board would mean shredding all of December, and maybe getting me part way through Jan without having to work. Well hopefully you can hook me up.

Thanks
Lucien

What's up Snowboard Mag? First off I would like to say thanks for giving all the struggling and hard working people a chance at getting a break during these harsh times. Also good luck to everyone in this contest, may the best story win! Lastly, onto my reason on why I deserve to have this new deck!

Oh wow how rude of me, 4 sentences in and I haven't introduced myself yet. I am Danny, a full time 21 year old student, with too many things to do and not enough free time. I began snowboarding last year and deeply fell in love, like that first bite into Mom's freshly baked pumpkin pie she made for Thanksgiving. That warm orange filling and crumbling crust with slightly burnt edges piled on with so much whip cream you can't even see your pie anymore mmmm. Snap out of it! Let us control ourselves, as mentioned before I am currently a full time student at a community college and currently unemployed because I just didn't have enough time to go to school, work, and dance. Let me add that you should check us out, we are pretty legit. Just look up Stepboys (yes it is correct, one word) on youtube and see our 2nd place finish at World of Dance. I stopped working a month before the beginning of the semester and before I quit I made some harsh sacrafices. First, I moved out of my apartment, my mom used to live there but moved to New Jersey because she couldn't find a job. So for a few months I was alone paying rent and finally moved into my friend's house with his mom and dad. It saved me half of what I was originally paying for my apartment. I also literally gave up my dream car, a 1990 Mazda Rx-7. Stashed it under a car cover and parked it on the side of the house and made carpooling and local transportation, such as the bus and light rail, my main means of traveling. I wake up every Monday through Thursday at 5:30 AM to get to my first class at 7:00 AM and return home at 5:00 PM everyday. Although I don't have class constantly throughout the entire 10 hours, the reason why I go that early is because that's the only time the local transportation is in service. When I'm not at school I'm spending my time with my dance crew and it's demanding. I have to train constantly to be able to keep up with the local and outside talents because once you lose your edge, you're not on top. Also the image and experiences I've had with the dance group is far greater than any job I've experienced, although I think being a prosnowboarder would be freakin awesome. On the weekends I spend all my hours either training, doing homework, and lately back to back shows. Since the season has started, I haven't found any free time to go out and shred some fresh powder. Our nearest location is about 2 hours away on a good day and I recently purchased a Freebord to attempt to suffice my need to shred. It's been doing alright, but falling hurts like a b#$@h!

Well that concludes my story. Hoped you enjoyed it and thank you!

-Danny

that pretty much sums it up... i probably don't need this board as much as others but i definately would use the crap out of it. i ollied a baby pine and hit another when i landed so the nose is starting to delam but nothing a little epoxy cant fix. its going to be my fourth season on this board and im more than happy cause i love it. anyways i just love to snowboard and have as much fun as i can doing it.

http://www.myspace.com/jonathan_tiv

After snowboarding for 3 years, one day in Michigan I decided to hit a big jump. The thing is, I had never hit a jump that gloriously large. After “hitting” said jump I dropped 17 feet through the air, and broke my femur in half, inches away from paralysis. After getting surgery and enjoying the morphine drip I was told that in 6-8 weeks I would be good as new. The wait time wasn’t too big of deal since I broke my leg on the last day of the season.

After waiting for 6 weeks and regaining my strength through physical therapy, I was getting psyched with the idea of “shredding” once again, until I felt a painful, foreign sensation in my upper hip area. This pain made me instantly return to my doctor and make him aware that I couldn’t ride a bike anymore, or walk without a sharp pain. The doctor’s orders were to return to crutches for as long as it took to find a doctor willing to a re-correction surgery on someone with such a delicate break. Now for any of you snowboard doctors, you know that if blood stops flying to certain places, things tend to die, or decay quite quickly, unfortunately that’s what has happened to me, I was plagued by avascular necrosis, or AVN. My young mind[being only 11 at the time] didn’t think it would be too big of a deal, until the return to crutches ruled my life.

I returned back to my once invalid lifestyle. I was unable to do the one thing I loved more than eating, snowboarding. 3 years on crutches, 1 year on cane, 108 visits to physical therapy and eight major surgeries later, I am now able to snowboard once again.

The problem is, after what I’ve been through I have a hard time getting my parents to take me up, so all the money I make ends up going towards bus rides to big bear[I’ve since moved to California]. The 3 hour drive, and ridiculously priced lift tickets have killed it for me. I want nothing more than to snowboard everyday for the rest of my life, but I can’t accomplish that without a real snowboard. I can’t afford new gear, because my parents have made it clear they don’t want me to have anything to do with snowboarding after it “ruined my life”. I love snowboarding and the adrenaline I get after hitting a buttery box, and I want to feel that again; every day of the year if I could. It has now become the only active thing I’m capable of doing since running and bike riding, is still mostly out of the question.

I thank you for reading my story

-Jonathan Martin

Mornin' snowboard Mag & Endeavor Snowboards

My name's Matt Rose, and I was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. I've been snowboarding since i was in grade 5, and now in second year University, the passion still burns just as deep.

Theres nothing quite more exhilarating than ripping down the hills spraying your friends, or just setting your dropin up just intime for that one clip, before security gives you the boot. I snowboard whether the season agrees. Here in ottawa it gets snowing around the end of november, so this year september 4th, we went to our local hockey arene (Walter Baker) and asked the guy with the zamboni to drop all the snow next to this prime hill outside the arena. So from the start we have been shredding gnar in and out, with help from the community which isn't toooo bad haha.

Right now unfortunately I have resorted to shred a blank 'land rover' snowboards deck, that i got from a buddy of mine. i think its a 147, STIFF as a solid plank of wood, and no where near twin hahaha. I was left in this predicament after i delammed my RIDE DH DFC edition 156. Like what are the chances. I worked my ass off at the Loeb Grocery store down the street to pay the $650 for this board a year and a half ago, and now when all my other friends start shredding, this happens! So now im left being the film bitch, and setup crew hahaha. I must say, I'm good at doing pizza and beer runs now, since i can't shred anymore lol.

And now i'm left in the situation where i really can't afford a new shred stick, im in debt upto my ears paying off my university tuition, and its left me in the dust. Sad world eh, you work alllll summer, just waiting for the some snow so you can throw down, and all the money you make pays for an education (for chumps, yeah, im a chump now haha), and when you get out to go shred, you deelam an almost new board, with nothing left to shred.

The hardships of living in barrhaven hahaha. So we usually drive out to this rock quarry since none of us and bare to pay lift passes. This quarry is mint though, we've nicknamed it the Barrhaven mountain lab, bringing in pipes, barrels, and making endless booters with power upto our nips to land in, something you just dont see in eastern ontario. Last year we setup some scaffolding in my backyard and like 4 spotlights, flooding the whole block behind my house, just to throw some gnar down. This year, its gonna be a little harder tpo convince the rents on the setup since we tookout a few of their trees!

But yeah, basically thats my story, What i've worked for, where its got me, and why i would really appreciate winning the High Five from Endeavor. Thanks a million guys, keep up the shred, gnar levels high, and keep the issues coming!

Matt Rose
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

I would like to nominate my cousin Mike! He's been through alot during his life having to deal with being the middle child while his parents deal with his older brothers drug addiction.
The only thing that makes him happy now-a-days is snowboarding. It's his pasion and with every chance he gets he attempts to go. Since his parents are spenging a lot of money constantly on rehabs and hospital fees for his older brother he doesnt get help financially from them.
He works three jobs in order to stay in school and whatever is left he uses to go snowboarding. One job he is a bus boy for a bar in our town, he works at a gym. and also he works as a cashier at our local market place. Our hill is 1 1/2 hours away and not owning a car since his brother sold it for drugs, makes it a little difficult to get to the hill. Our whole family snowboards, so he jumps on the bandwagon every chance he can when we go.
Right now he's ridng a board that hes had for awhlie now and hes in need for an upgrade, but with the economy being the why it is and snowboarding equiptment being as much as it is makes it difficult for him to buy new stuff.
I know you probably hear all of this from everyone who attempts to win the board, but i believe that he will get his confidence back and be able to what he loves to do in style as well as get a sense of belonging since his family hasnt really been giving him attention since his older brother was in highschool. With this board I can actually see him smile again and maybe see him at his happiest like I used to!

pretty much i need this board. work, school are killing me i need a new board no time or money

I'm a 24 year old college student from S.E. Tennessee. There is no real snow within 3 hours of me. I go to school 18 hours each semester and work 30+ hours a week delivering food in my own truck and get no gas money for it. I love to board but never have the money to during the winter b/c of paying for rent and getting ready to pay tuition for the spring semester. So in order to be able to get on the mountain I give plasma two days each week to pay for the trip. I can only give on Wednesday's and Friday's b/c of my work schedule and can only board on Fridays so i give plasma in the morning and then drive the 3 hours 45minutes to Cataloochee NC board all day and drive back that night. Several times I have passed out on the mountain from being light headed from giving plasma including once trying to jib a rail to impress a girl. I have no board so I have to rent whatever piece of crap they have on the mountain. I've been trying to save for 3 years to get one and have always had something come up and had to use the money. I NEED THIS BOARD BAD!!!!

So i will start with explain my situacion. I live in small city near Ostrava in Czech republic(Center Europe:) ).I dont know why ,but last 3 seazons were really sucked, no snow!really,there always was a lot of snow in winter and I can ride near my home and everything was so fine.I am not a ritch man so I always was working as shaper in local snowpark and i get free lift ticket so i can ride every day.No because we fu*ked our enviroment there is no snow for whole winter.If i want to ride i have to travel around 10 hours to get to alps and it cost a really lot of money.I have to work whole summer to earn some money for spend more days on snow in winter.Last 2 seasons I was around 10 days on snow in mountains . My friends and I have only one choice. We have to jib everything on anything and you should know how it demaged your deck . Now i have only something that looks like ironing board more than snowboard bud my only thorought is snowboard more and more. So every day I look at sky and hope that nature will go good and will get me the best present ( arount 10 m of snow :).
I know that you are not possible to get nature good,but you can get me chance to spend more time on snow by your board .

cheers and please pray for some snow, its december and still no snow :(

easy reasons
1. Im homless
2. im carless
3. i sold stuff i got for free to get enough money to get a snowboard(plus the money i got for begging on the street)
4. my "local" Mt. is about 3-4 hours away
5. I have never driven to the Mt. i always get rides
6. i go every other weekend!!!
7. im on the computer now at a hotel in san diego posing as a guest

i actually just got a job, at a hair salon
just so i can get money to buy a pass hahaha

What's up Snowboard Magazine so you want to hear a sob story about how I help other people get on the slopes but I dont have enough time to enjoy my own time on the slopes.

Hi my name is Curtis and I work at a local Ski Area as a lift operator six days a week I wake up make a lunch, buy gas and drinks then I drive 45 minutes on snow and ice covered roads to our local ski Area where I clock in, go to the lifts, and start cleaning the off the chairs and go through a safety check list, after the lift deemed safe I can start sending up patrollers and more operators, And thats if you are lucky. Sometimes I am stuck out in the cold paking cars, or shoveling off the sidewalks and watching every one else hit the fresh powder while I am working just to get ski privlages for one day out of the week and thats my day off. So help me out Snowboard Magazine send me that new board and I will be a happy lift operator forever:)

well i realized i wanted to snowboard all the time so i figured out how i could do that without having to be travis rice. couldnt afford to buy a pass at a mtn so started teaching lessons, then went to school for rec management, then learned about snowboard team coaching. coaching snowboard teams on weekends so i can ride during the week and get new kids hyped on what the rest of us our doing. no sob story, just a fella making a way for himself to be able to ride 5+ days a week for free and inspire youngins.

Everyday of the summer, I patiently await for winter to come. Everyday to work, I think to myself, I am one day closer to winter. Snowboarding is what drives me to get up and go to work everyday at 5 am, 5 to 6 days a week. I pedal my bike 2 miles to the bus stop to save gas, get on the bus, get drop off and pedal another mile to work in the cold summer morning. It gets up to 98 degrees F by mid afternoon, and I’m working outside at minimum wage. Why quit early? To hot isn’t a good reason but working for more money to go snowboarding is! I work all summer for a seasons pass, bus money, new board and binding this coming season. On the first day of the previous season, on a brand new board, I came up short on a rail and took out a chunk of the sidewall. Ever since then I’ve been riding with that missing chunk of sidewall. I go home from work everyday, tired, have a few hours to play, pack some lunch and go to bed by 8:30. The next day, it’s the same. I see my friends having a great time everyday, playing in the water, just being free from school. Meanwhile I’m standing outside pruning, moving ladders and pulling root suckers for my dad’s orchard in the 80 degrees weather. Its not that I’m having fun, but it’s about getting where I want to be. I hated going to work every day, but you gotta do what you gotta do. This year, the snow didn’t come early as last year so I am sitting here wishing I was up the mountain shredding away like the rest!

Thank you,
Caden

Now, im not gonna sit here and type you guys some story about my mom dying or anything, i'm just gonna tell you the truth. Basically, I really LIVE from late november to mid-march, every year. And all that time inbetween is spent, believe it or not, checking websites or old magazines for the first signs of snow. I went on a cruise this year and even though it was great, i would rather be snowboarding, so at night i laid in bed and watched draw the line, and thanks in advance about eight times a piece. The only way i can afford to pay for any new gear (very rare for me to purchase it) lift tickets, and transport to the actual mountain, is for me to work endless hours at the local ice cream stand making a whopping *gasp* $6.75 an hour. Now i know that isnt too bad, but because im traveling to canada, which is really my first snowboarding trip in my 8-year carrer more than 200 miles away, its costing $479.00 , and im actually gettin a very good deal. So all im asking is to just have the chance to win this board, and my fingers are becoming very tired of re-entering my email adress for free giveaways on numerous sites that i have never won, and including my personal information, in the hopes of winning a new board, that hopefully wont break or become broken beyond repair, because if that happens, all my money will have been spent in travel and lift tickets, so it would be grueling wait until the summer returns for me to work even more hours to be able to fix, or buy a new board. In other words my life will be over.

Me and my wife just had a baby so we're kinda broke at the moment...we both work over 40 hours a week and then when we're not working we're busy being "adults." Don't get me wrong, I love our daughter and wouldn't trade having her for anything in the world...I would just like to have a new board to ride this year.

Endeavor and Snowboard-mag,

My name's J, 17 years old. I live all the way in London so I don't get as much mountain time as everyone else. I have to balance going to school, taking care of my brother and making a 3 hr one way trip to my closest indoor snowslope. One of those trips to get to some crappy, icey, 150m slope costs me about £70 which in USD is aout $100 + I think... When you consider that one night I can go snowboard on some weak ass features for only about 2 hours cost me that much, it ain't cool. My parents are divorced as well with my dad apparently not caring what really happens to us. Haven't spoken to him for a good couple years now. What that means is that I take care of my bro now. Mum's out working trying to scrape enough money for us to eat and live as comfortably as possible. All the money I manage to earn from work whilst my bros at school or at a friend's house I save to get away from here and go to a real mountain where the slopes last for over 20 seconds and I can forget about everything but snowboarding, one of the only pure things that put a smile on my face that won't come off for hours. You hear about these people complaining about too much ice, season not coming, resorts being too far away but in reality they got it good you know... They gotta drive like 3-4 hours sure but once they get there at least they got some huge mountain which won't rape their cash for 2 hours of ice and wood with these poor features that jsut aren't exciting or fun anymore.
After school I'm going to try to scrape enough money together to go to uni and move out to the states and live in a resort or something cus it's where I'm the happiest.

Anyways, take it easy and I'm sure whoever you give the board too will be stoked! It's a sick board and you guys are doing a nice thing...
Laters,
J

Dec 10th, 7:32pm Pacific Time, Location, Whistler BC... Hi my name is Jonathan, I'm 21 years old, used to live in Montreal Quebec but recently changed my way of living. Me and my girlfriend decided it was time for us to realize our dreams; snowboarders since we can remember it, that's what we do and it's more and more a reason for us to go forward in life. I drove more than 5000km, going through the States, than Banff Alberta and then here to get established. Whistler's the best at our eyes, caus' some may say it's not... but it's our heaven and we wish we can stay as long as we can overhere so we fuly live our dream. On september 24th we left Montreal, took a week sometime sleeping in awful places, finally got where we wanted and sat down to enjoy the views ;). We're more than happy, life is GOOD. We both work our a'' off to get enough money to stay here but it's totally worth it... as I said we're i heaven! So eveything's worth it... A new snowboaqrd wouldn't be too much, I need that to go and shred out these slopes...

Maybe someone else's going towin this, but hey, it's worth a try! C'ya!