It wasn’t until I was in my late teens and early 20’s that I really started to enjoy early 90’s gangster rap. Some of my friends I grew up with would listen to Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, NWA and TooShort throughout high school. But I personally never found rap music to be very entertaining. Then something changed after I graduated high school. Some of the more popular early and mid 90’s rap songs started to appeal to me. But once I started to listen to more of the popular 90’s rap, a very catchy song by Ice Cube called “It was a good day” caught my attention. In the song Ice Cube sings about a day cruising around drinking, smoking, boning, and tells what a good day it was because he didn’t have to use his AK. The lyric in that song that comes to mind for this day of skiing. “And my —- runs deep, so deep, so deep, I put her — to sleep”. That lyric is notable, because all day long we kept saying how deep (so deep)the snow was. The Sierra Nevada mountain range has 200% of normal snow pack for late January. The storms just keep coming and the powder continues to be deep, so deep, puts that ass to sleep.

This trip also was an opportunity to show a new friend what touring is all about. Jame’s has only been split boarding for a year and is pretty naive about what it truly means to tour. I was lucky in that my mentors were some of the top athletes of the discipline and made sure I knew what was up. It was my opportunity to return the favor and teach another noob whats up.