It was originally designed to get us up the hill so we could ski down. But we found out that it was more fun to go up.

Its the most amazing sport ever. It's a lot of fun to sail up a mountain!

The state does the spraying, and basically we just have to wait until it's our turn. They've told us it will hopefully be sometime Wednesday. But even after they spray, you still have to come inside by 5:30 p.m. or 6 p.m., so we don't know what will happen.

There's an absurdly picky ski patrol this year. To us this is epic: If you have a job you don't like, you quit.

Especially for snowboard cross, endurance is huge. All of us are strong athletes. Ski racers, in the downhill, do one run a day. We did six today, plus warm-up runs. Those are minute-30 [second] runs, so you need a lot of endurance to pull that off.

Hurricanes affect us terribly. If we have a bad hurricane season it'll take away from everything I did well with in that January through April period. During and after hurricanes nobody shops for clothing.