How To Wax A Snowboard

Tired of paying shops to wax your board? Owner of Surfside Sports (and my boss, Duke) has the most popular How to Wax a Snowboard video on youtube.com. The man's been in the game a long time and definitely knows his stuff. I find it easiest to set your board on top of a couple of chairs in the kitchen if you feel like doing this at home. It's cheap, it's easy, and it's fast! Once the spring weather turns the snow to glue, I find myself waxing my board almost every time I hit the slopes!

My Goodies

So the whole idea behind this blog is posting girls, their outerwear, accessories, and set ups. There's not a ton of women's info out there and I wanted to give us a way to find things we like, find where to get them, and ask the rider for info about what they're good for.

Who better to start with than myself? Please note, basically the only reason I have any of this stuff is because I work at a killer shop and get overly hooked up.

Hat: Neff Daily Beanie

Goggles: Smith I/O Violet Ombre

Face mask: Airhole Matterhorn

Jacket: Burton Aurora

Shirt: ...I still wear tall tees

Pants: Burton Gloria

Boots: DC Mora

Helmet: Smith Maze

Gloves: DaKine 

Board: GNU Ladies Choice

Bindings: Union Legacy

Home mountain: I still claim Squaw

Years riding: 10

Favorite girl rider: Tara Dakides or Kelly Clark 

Hottest dude rider: Danny Davis

Current riding tunes: Lorde and Kreayshawn

Off season activities: Painting dogs, going to the beach, and camping 

My Life in the Mountains

As I mentioned, I am from Newport Beach, CA. Although, I was born in Newport, I moved to the Bay Area when I was five. My parents had a condo in Tahoe City and I began skiing at Alpine Meadows. When I moved back to Newport at age 12, my love for winter sports went a bit astray, until I began college at CU Boulder. I went to a ski/snowboard swap, bought a Burton Feelgood and never looked back. Once I graduated college, I thought I never wanted to be cold again, until I realized it was 80 degrees in October in Newport and I was over it. My friend, Amy, and I decided to pack up and move to Tahoe, where my love of winter was rooted in the first place. On the way, we managed to rope two more friends into the journey, Rebel and Lindsay. After my first season as a lift operator at Squaw Valley, I travelled to Australia and did a season in guest services at Thredbo Ski Resort (where I have to admit, I was more interested in the Aussie dudes than I was in their mountains). I spent one more season as a lifty at Squaw, a summer in an epic party pad on the Truckee River, and my third winter there in the uniforms department with one of my best friends, Karen, who will probably pop up in this blog quite often. My last season there was the winter of 2010/11, which happened to be one of the gnarliest Tahoe winters in history. After being beaten to death by resort life, I decided to pack my bags and move back to the beach. I spent a year working at Oakley, but wasn't getting nearly enough riding in, so I quit and began working at Surfside Sports, where I have remained to this day. Surfside helped sooth my wounds from life at Oakley and bring me back full heartedly into snowboarding. It might have taken me a bit to get off my high horse about Bear Mountain, but the older I get, the more I realize, it's not where you are, it's who you're with...and any snow is better than no snow.

Denny Doo, me, and Scotty- Chinquapin, Tahoe City, CA 1994ish

Introduction

I can't be the only chick who's tired of hearing,"She's good...for a girl." Growing up in Newport Beach/Costa Mesa area, the epicenter for the action sports industry, I've been living in a man's world for far too long. And quite frankly, I'm tired of it. Although, I have a lot of love and respect for plenty of male snowboarders, I find too many epic girls being overlooked. Guys are cute, they're fun, and they can grow cool facial hair, but when it comes to clothing, fashion, and trends, most girls are lightyears ahead. With Boards and Babes, I wanted to create a fashion based blog and community for badass chicks who shred to share style, clothes, board and hard goods advice, riding stories, and any other wild adventures we might encounter.

Me, Samantha, Kerry Banana, and Memey killin lift lines at Squaw Creek (and giving the boys a wink and a smile)