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.

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.

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.

The new lift was put in for the sport of skiing. That's pretty damn cool. Because of our numbers, though, it could become economically viable.

It's good to be on the radar screen of the industry.

It's been since 1986 that someone was killed (in Utah) inside ski resort boundaries on a run.