I spent my formative years in Florida, so winters were usually on the beach. Call me deprived, but my family caravan never made it out to Vail or up to Killington, so in my rearing I never learned how to ski. In college when I finally did make it out to a white-capped mountain, snowboarding was all the buzz, and I figured all of those years skateboarding at the mall would give me a leg up, so I went in that direction.