Come now Anonymous Comment Person,  “SB” cant stand for "Snowboard" and  "Snowboarding".  Even the Smurfs got their 'smurfing' suffixes correct. I guess, for a snowboarder, I shud b :-) dat U didnt wrte lIk DIS.

You're right that I may be too pretty to SB though. I started wearing earth-tones while I ski, as a way to slowly  acclimate myself to the whole riding culture. And the headphones definitely help with that too. Sometimes  on my way to work I just stop walking and sit down in the middle of the sidewalk...

Just kidding.  I don't want to turn this site into a Riding/Skiing debate, I have enough people mad at me.  I find skiers who whine about boarders to be wrongheaded.  Y'all have as much right to the mountain as anyone else.   

This topic reminds me of the time I jumped all over Rich for complaining about how the Mexicans were tearing up the soccer field.  I worked on an analogy for him, something about how silly it would sound if I complained that Hippies and DINKs were ruining my  Dave Mathews Concert, but the topic never came up again. ( I may need to update my example. Alex, you got one?)