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I scrolled through the memory banks of my iPhone and picked out 5 video gems to share.  None are longer than 30 sec.  Most are much shorter.  NOTE: THIS WILL BE A WASTE OF YOUR TIME.
1.) Jack Mitrani’s Announcer-Man Voice
In this clip, Jack is doing his best impersonation of Brad J, a guy who I [...]

Last week, the downstairs bathroom in the base lodge at Snow Basin, UT became second nicest place I’ve ever taken a crap.  It’s typically never fun to stop and have the runs when your out taking them - but I’d argue that the gold-plated toilet bowl plumbing, solid floor-to-ceiling-cherry-wood bathroom stall doors and the decorative [...]

5 Geographic Limericks
Your normal 30’s Thursday programming has been temporarily* replaced with Preston’s Poems™.   I have decided to dabble in Action Sport’s Poetry!  An extreme (-ly lame), cutting edge form of snowboard journalism/entertainment.
The following are five limericks inspired by The Man From Nantucket.
Bear.
There once was this man from Big Bear.
He had a perfect deep tan [...]

Danny Davis. Photo courtesy Boardistan.
This article is a perfect example of the feast of d-grade crap that is served up to the Internet everyday.   Millions (if not billions) of people around the World Wide Web, force-feed the Internet with photos, videos and text, under the loose license of journalism leading to our epidemic state [...]

High Cascade superstar and all around great old man Preston Strout is an incredibly busy, but funny human being. He’s been kind enough to offer his unique brand of humor in the form of a weekly column about old age and other random stuff, 30s Thursday. One of Preston’s early efforts entitled, “Skiing and Snowboarding [...]

I went to Target yesterday to buy a trashcan. On my journey through the store I walked by the clothing section and there it was!  Shaun White 4 Target.
I had heard Shaun had his own line of T-Mart clothes a few years back, but I had never actually seen it with my own eyes…  There, [...]

I once heard life described through the “4 Stages of Santa Claus.”
Stage 1: You believe in Santa Claus.
Stage 2: You don’t believe in Santa Claus.
Stage 3: You Are Santa Claus.
Stage 4: You look like Santa Claus.
Now that I’m in my 30s I guess I should be in Stage 3 where I am Santa Claus, but [...]

A few years back I rode the chairlift at Waterville Valley, NH with an old guy. He looked to be in his mid sixties, and I was impressed that he was still out there skiing.  On his jacket was a patch that subtly, yet proudly stated “85+”, something I thought nothing of it at first.  [...]

If your passion for carving corduroy outweighs your craving for carving turkey, you’ll find the following Thanksgiving Menu right up your alley.  This list is a cornucopia of real snowboard grabs named after food you’ll just want to gobble up.  (Actually visualize, or act some of these out, as a few of them are mind-boggling.)
Caution: [...]

This isn’t even an article.  It’s a scheme to get more Twitter followers for High Cascade Snowboard Camp.  But read on – because I’ll buy you a cheese pizza.
Here’s the deal:
– Follow High Cascade Snowboard Camp on Twitter. Click Here.
(if you’re on Twitter already it’ll take 10 sec.  If you’re not, it’ll take 1 minute.)
– [...]

Shaun White will make the double-cork a TV household name this winter on NBC, ESPN and beyond.  Make no mistake that his command over these tricks and determination to bring them into the competitive arena is truly impressive.  If this were NASCAR, Shaun basically just built a car that’s twice as fast, and the rest [...]

The ability to bake a good chocolate chip cookie can help secure a free ride to the mountain, extend a couch surfing welcome a few days and generally enhance the lives of everyone around you this winter.
My advice: Learn how to make the following chocolate chip cookies, and practice by making them for a friend, [...]

Nowadays, there are whole mountains that are nothing but parks, such as Echo. But don’t forget to make some turns. photo: Chris Garrison
Over the years I’ve noticed our population forgetting the beauty of the simple groomed trail, mistaking it as nothing more than a necessary evil to help deliver you to the top of [...]

This handplant is five years old, but yet Preston is still doing it.
If you’re like me, you sometimes get stuck in ruts.  Days turn into weeks, and I realize I’ve been doing the same thing over and over. Days turn into weeks, and I realize I’ve been doing the same thing over and over [...]

So I’m on vacation right now in Hawaii getting ready to write a 30’s Thursday for Yobeat when the reality of this situation punched me in the face.  Why the hell am I writing an article for Yobeat while I’m on vacation?
The End.

When I was younger I often found myself day dreaming about MILF’s (Mountains I’d Like to Freeride).  As an inexperienced East Coaster, I pictured myself nervously hovering over those perfect peaks, dropping in on some nice natural hips and maybe even getting to ride a pristine backside.  I knew that when my time finally came, [...]

When I strolled up to the brick building on 12th and Division (that was once a Ford manufacturing plant in the 1930’s) I imagined rows of neatly dressed midgets at machines sewing leg-bags and watching snowboard movies.  I pictured Travis Parker running around doing that thing where you make fart noises come out your armpits, [...]

I got sick last Friday at 3:47 pm.  Seriously.  I was sitting in a meeting (something 30+ year olds often do) feeling fine at 3:46 and in the blink of an eye – it hit me.  Feeling tired, achy, stuffy head, scratchy throat, etc.  At first I dismissed it as typical symptoms of a long [...]

30s Thursday
By Preston G Strout

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When the hell did the world of snowboarding decide to start fashion smoking? Over the past season I’ve noticed more imagery of pro shreds with cigarettes sticking out of their faces in videos, magazines, web videos, web magazines, etc, than at anytime in our history. Obviously a [...]

Ha ha… That was a fake headline to get you in the door, I have no proof that Shaun White is naked.  Here’s the real article:

Office Space: The Final Frontier
by Preston G. Strout
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If you’re reading this website, chances are you love snowboarding (or you make money off snowboarding in some capacity and are [...]

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With Preston G. Strout

Dave Doman poster. Available here.

So I sat down to type out something about something, when I heard some crazy news that made it hard for me to really focus on whatever BS I was conjuring up.  One of our fellow snowboarders/friends Dave Doman has fallen on some hard times, and [...]

30’s Thursday
by Preston Strout
There’s an old saying that goes “clothes make the man.”  If you dress for success, you’re typically more apt to find it.  While a man (or woman’s) worth doesn’t really hinge on what they are wearing, fashions certainly do frame the world’s physical perception of our character.   Since for many folks perception [...]

Let me start off by saying “Wow!”  Nothing in my 30+ years on this Earth prepared me for this.  Never in my wildest imagination would I have expected my last 30’s Thursday article to enrage the world of Freeskiing like it did.  And here’s why:
A.)    I never thought they’d see it! (I knew Freeskiers copy [...]

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By Preston G. Strout
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Because I run a summer snowboard camp that chooses to remain 100% Snowboarding in this age of action sports homogony, a few people out there have accused me of being a snow bigot.  In light of these heinous allegations, I’d like to set the record straight.
Just because you prefer a [...]

By Preston G. Strout
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Back in my day…  When people needed energy they went to sleep and then they woke back up. 8-hours later, you had energy.  Sure, it was a primitive process and very time consuming.  Nonetheless, sleeping grew to a multi-billion dollar industry selling beds, pillows, alarm clocks and pajamas, you [...]

Random insight, nonsense and commentary about world through the eyes of a snowboarder in his thirties (which someday you too will become)