Snowboards
1993
During the first year snowboards were permitted on the ski hills, riders were required to take a proficiency test.
Coming from commuter skateboarding and already being a skier, I figured my first time snowboarding would be easy. I would just go up Cypress Mountain with the examiner and come back down certified. But as I was getting off the chair-lift I fell, twisting my knee horribly, resulting in being brought down in a stretcher.
As teenagers, my friends and I attempted to build snowboards in woodwork class at high school around 1986 or 87.
The first commercially available boards appeared then too, so my plywood venture was abandoned shortly before completion in favour of an actual factory made snowboard with steel edges. A couple of years later we added skateboard trucks and wheels to my neglected plywood facsimile, transforming it into a rather long, swallow tailed longboard.
Eventually I learned to snowboard. My certification badge is likely in a musty old box along with some ancient snowboard magazines.
On a technical note, from what I remember these 35mm images were shot on Fujichrome slide film using a Contax 139 with a Carl Zeiss T* 25mm lens. The wide lens pushes the spectators further away when compared to the black and white images. It also gave me more sky in which to isolate the boards.