Everybody’s got wish lists and year end recaps left and right. I think it has something to do with Christmas and the New Year, but I could be wrong. BroBomb hasn’t been around for a whole year, and I have a notoriously poor memory that makes it very hard to recap my week, forget an entire year.

A man must know his limits, so I’m going to bite off a very small piece- otherwise known as the past weekend. The storm of the century was hitting DC, Philly, and NYC, but it took a hard right before it hit any real mountains. That is depressing, especially since I had a trip to Mount Snow planned. It was bitter cold and the wind was blowing like the frosty bastard that it is. Nonetheless, I kept my blogger radar up and made enough observations to keep you all entertained for the ten second it’ll take to read these two lists.

 Top 5 Promising Things I Saw this Year (Weekend):

1. Your average kid is out there getting creative between features. I’m talking butters, taps, slashes, and all that good stuff. We used to look like automatons that just rode feature to feature, now some of you are actually worth watching from the chairlift.
2. It’s still a fashion show. You’d think this would be a negative thing, but where would we be without our vanity?
3. My brother was riding his shiny new Moment Planks. I heard more than one kid whisper “yo dude, those are the Planks.” I remember when simply owning a pair of twin tip skis made you a rarity on the mountain, at least now you have to go out of your way to order a limited-production ski to get noticed.
4. Shitloads of kids are skiing. Until you go to a park-specific hill like Carinthia at Mount Snow it’s easy to forget how quickly this thing is growing. Again, I can remember when being under 20 and skiing was extremely rare.
5. You’re all getting really damn good. We were all reminiscing on the chairlift how being able to slide a rail used to make you the best kid on the hill. On Sunday I saw more switchups than a Level 1 video, and some of them actually looked good.