If The Guardian is going to give Cooler Magazine Editor Sam Haddad a trip to Stratton she might as well write it up the old-fashioned way. And do it she does. Going as far as to claim that Stratton Mountain is the place “where it all began.”
Today, snowboarders are such a ubiquitous sight on the slopes, it’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when they were universally banned, not to mention ridiculed as renegade punks who wore too much fluoro. Those of us who get our kicks from riding sideways through the snow have a lot to thank Stratton Mountain for. In 1983 the Vermont resort became the first to allow snowboarders on its slopes, and in doing so catapulted the sport towards its modern-day incarnation. Skiers have Wengen, surfers have Santa Cruz, and we have Stratton.
Well, Haddad got the East Coast version of the snowboard story down, but we’re still kind of stumped by the Santa Cruz reference?
[Link: The Guardian]
Actually Snow Valley and Suicide Six were the first mountains in Vermont to allow snowboarding.
props to the vtsp.
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