The winter of 1988-89 was the first full season that Vail allowed snowboarders to ride the mountain. For those old enough to remember the days of not being able to ride anywhere, this means one thing: you’re old. And so is Ray Sforzo. He was there 20 years ago and he’s still there today:
“It seems to be working out pretty well,” said Sforzo, who founded Vail’s snowboard school and directed it for 15 years. “There’s less and less negative interface. Instead of the idiot snowboarder cut me off, now it’s just the idiot cut me off. . . .“Obviously it’s more mainstream,” Sforzo said. “It’s a pretty substantial part of our ski school revenue. A lot of kids are lured to snowboarding.”
Hard to believe it was ever an issue.
[Link: Vail Daily]
