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Magazine: Snowboard- Products, Places, and Personalities
Article: Back to the Basics
Author: Stan Evans
Pages 80-87

“I rolled back to the spot and jokingly asked the girls if they’d be into it. Out of the back of the pack, the most unlikely voice chimed in. “I think I’d like to give it a shot,” Jamie said.

I think that this is a pretty significant quote in the article. The article was about instead of going on a big snowboard trip to some place that few people have been they were going to ride in the backcountry close to home and keep things simple. The trip was to prove that “sometimes the best possibilities are in your own backyard.” The group consisted of mainly pipe and park riders, Hana Beaman, Gretchen Bleiler, Jamie Anderson, Priscilla Levac, and author/ photographer Stan Evans. The only rider with notable backcountry experience was Hana, and of course she’s a girl and girls just don’t ride backcountry. The most inexperienced rider there was Jamie. She’s small, young, rides park, and is still in high school. Through out most of the trip she was tentative about trying stuff. Then all of a sudden she steps up and decides she wants to hit a giant road gap nobody else on the trip would. Stan Evans who jokingly brought up the idea was shocked; he always thought that he’d be shooting guys jumping the gap. Jamie ended up hitting the jump 6 times. She really stepped up her riding and proved that some of the best possibilities really are in your own backyard.