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jostorm
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Hey platter and wild bill: I suppose any alpine sport is usually really expensive to do, for me it involves planeflights, hotel, skipass and the whole kaboodle, you don't get much change from 1000£ for a lousy week, which is exhorbitant. I always wonder how it works out for people who actually live "locally" to snowy mountains, presumably the liftst must be cheaper for them??? Caught a documentary on Shaun White on You Tube the other night. Apparently he was a really sickly, weedy child until the age of six and spent an awful lot of time in hospitals, hence his involvement with charities devoted to sick children. Then his dad bought him a snowboard at age 9 and by age 13 he went professional, nowadays earning over 10 million $ a year. He seems such a nice kid and what he does with that board makes me develop bowel movements like Joey whenever I see him, he is truly awesome... They also showed this halfpipe he had engineered and built specially for him really high up some mountain, so he could work on his tricks in peace without distractions-reached by helicopter only!
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