Guess I should add that I did my senior High School year (class of 1992) in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. There I used to hang out with a group of really devoted snowboarders.
One day I got to join them in a small hill they used to snowboard. I'd never even tried a snowboard before and they were wondering why they even took this amateur with them.

At the end of the day I was jumping at the same places as they did. They were really annoyed that I'd just spent one day learning what they had spent a whole year trying to learn.
Well, hope that wasn't too much bragging. It is just very good memory I have from skiing/snowboarding in the States.
Thanks to Tay, Mark and Eric that took me snowboarding.