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Jess’ first time on the East Coast to teach at BTBounds together with plenty of park and pizza.
The primary weekend of March, Past the Boundaries headed to Mountain Creek, New Jersey for a ladies’s snowboard camp. BTBounds has been collaborating with Creek because the begin; the NJ resort is actually a gem, from the parks to the folks. One of many bonuses of BTBounds’ annual journeys to New Jersey is attending to introduce associates to Mountain Creek who haven’t been to the world earlier than. Creek just isn’t solely house to a brilliant inventive park with so many alternative routes for lapping, it’s additionally a nucleus of East Coast group and pizza mecca. Jess Tennyson, By no means Summer season ladies’s advertising supervisor, has been part of BTBounds for years, however this yr marked not solely her first time to Mountain Creek, however her first time snowboarding east of the Rockies. Learn on as she talks camp, how superior New Jersey is, Italian meals, and an upcoming By no means Summer season Ladies’s Demo + Experience Day. – Mary T. Walsh
photographs: Chris Moran
So earlier this month you went to New Jersey to go snowboarding for the primary time, and never solely was it your first time on the East Coast, I heard it was your first time driving anyplace east of Colorado? Is that true?!
Haha, sure!! It was my first time to the East Coast in any respect. I’ve snowboarded in South Dakota which I suppose is barely extra east than Colorado? However apart from that…
The East Coast has a repute as being chilly, hardpack, superior, and so forth. What had been you anticipating and the way did that evaluate to what it really was like snowboarding in NJ?
I’m certain we’ve all heard the time period “Ice Coast” or jokes about East Coast pow days. I additionally knew they’ve had a tricky season on the market, so I used to be undoubtedly anticipating ice…and never lots of protection.
I used to be pleasantly shocked! The protection half was about proper, however the snow was tremendous enjoyable and slushy. Mountain Creek felt like spring boarding! It was superior.
On a scale of 1-10, how good had been the bagels and pizza? What was your favourite factor you ate whereas at Creek?
12. I used to be simply reminiscing this morning concerning the bagels from Hamburg Sizzling Bagels. The pizza was so good, even the chilly leftovers had been firing. The most effective factor I ate although, may really be the shrimp scampi at Milano’s Italian.
Creek has a very particular vibe to it–the park, the group, all of it–and I all the time really feel that BTBounds weekend actually emphasizes all of this. What was your expertise like?
Mountain Creek was so particular! Their complete workforce, from advertising to park crew to meals and bev, was so good to us. The group of riders there was superb–snowboarding could be very a lot alive and nicely in NJ.
Matt Byerly and the Mountain Creek Park Crew all the time make a very inventive park. Did you get to trip it a bit whilst you had been teaching or earlier than camp began?
Matt and the crew completely crushed it. The park had at the very least sixteen completely different options and was completely arrange for development. They had been nonetheless constructing the day earlier than camp, however I acquired to trip a bit throughout camp and was so stoked on the setup. Big shout out to Matt and Mountain Creek Park Crew!
The place do you stand on the Taylor Ham vs. pork roll debate?
I gotta say, I’m on workforce Taylor Ham. I had a Taylor Ham, egg, cheese, and SPK bagel sandwich one of many mornings, and I’m nonetheless eager about it.
photographs: Chris Moran
You’ve been concerned with BTBounds for a very long time and this season you’ve been teaching a bunch of the stops! What makes you stoked to be part of BTBounds, in addition to ladies’s trip days, camps, and occasions usually?
I can not converse extremely sufficient about BTBounds. It’s the most supportive, empowering studying setting–everybody cheers one another on and it’s all the time an excellent time. One among my favourite components of teaching is watching the joy a camper has once they land their trick. I really feel like each camper walks away with a brand new (or renewed) confidence within the park, new snowboarding associates, and some new methods within the bag.
You and Christine Savage have constructed such an unbelievable program with BTB, and I’m honored to be part of it.
I really like ladies’s trip days and different occasions for related causes–they create such a secure, supportive setting for studying new issues and the vibes are all the time excessive. I get giddy on group rides once I search for and notice we now have an enormous group of girl boarders taking on a mountain. I really like this group!
To that finish, By no means Summer season is holding a ladies’s trip day on March 18th at Loveland, Colorado! Are you able to inform us slightly bit about what people can anticipate on the NS Ladies’s Experience Day? (Additionally, how they will join?)
Sure! It’s a Ladies’s Demo + Experience Day, the place folks can demo any ladies’s By no means Summer season board they need (if they need–demos undoubtedly aren’t required!) after which get to trip with and get pointers from the By no means Summer season ladies’s workforce riders, adopted by an aprés and raffle to cap off the day. We do extra of a gaggle trip within the morning after which break up into focus teams based mostly on ability degree and curiosity within the afternoon. The primary purpose is to simply rip round collectively and have enjoyable–hopefully assembly some new associates, making an attempt a brand new board, and studying a factor or two within the course of!
For more information and to enroll, go to this EventBrite hyperlink. We cap these occasions at 30 folks proper now (we might open the Loveland one as much as 40) in order that we are able to present sufficient demo boards and workforce riders, and spots are filling rapidly!
You talked about in your Again of Home interview in problem 19.1 that you simply had been excited to bolster group in your position at NS by ladies’s-specific programming and occasions, and one of many objectives was placing on in-person occasions. How have the trip days been this yr–the Loveland occasion is your third of the season, proper?
I’m SO excited to lastly be doing a little in-person occasions! I’ve to present main credit score one among our workforce riders, Shawna Mayo, as she actually pushed for them to occur this season and has been tag-teaming with me to assist coordinate and run these occasions. We had an awesome turnout at each the Sierra at Tahoe (on February 18th) and Jay Peak (on February twenty fifth) areas, and we now have excessive hopes for the Loveland one. We’re hoping to increase to extra resorts and add extra of those Ladies’s Demo + Experience Day occasions subsequent season too!
photographs: Chris Moran
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