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Snowboarding in Sunrise, AZ.

Saturday, Jan 16th – Monday, Jan 18th.

Quick Details: Staying in spacious 3 bedroom/3 bathroom cabin in the Pinetop, approx. 3 hour drive from the East Valley. Will leave Saturday (if you want to go boarding Saturday, leave early) and be back around 4:00 – 5:00 pm Monday. We will spend all day Sunday snowboarding! The rest of the time we hang out and enjoy the mountains and party it up.

Cost: Approx $100/per person . Covers 2 night stay in cabins, 1 all day lift ticket, dinner for Saturday and Sunday night. First 4 couples to pay reserves their bed. Anybody after that needs to bring sleeping bag/air mattress. $40 deposit required to secure your spot due ASAP. Final $60 due weekend before Sunday, Jan. 10th. (Special arrangements can be made if necessary)

Transportation: Carpool with everyone! (Leave in comments if you need a ride) I recommend carpooling and splitting gas cost.
Sign up: Comment on the blog (or text me!) with your name and anybody you might bring. Please try to pay or promise to pay ASAP. Rent your snowboarding gear in Phoenix! I recommend Sports Chalet. Cost to rent is about $45 for the weekend. You will need to buy your own snow goggles, I recommend Big 5 Sporting Goods.

This date is coming up fast so act quickly. Plus we can be the first ones up and by pass hour long lines if we have our lift tickets and snowboard gear since a lot of people will go up unprepared. Sunday we will be getting up early and leaving right away to go to the snow, please take showers and get all ready Saturday night.

If you have never been snowboarding, you will fall many times but you’ll get it down by the end of the day. A lot of people who are going know how to board so they can help you out if your rookies!

Other notes:

Other notes: Saturday the mountain is open for night snowboarding only $22!!. Feel free to go to that.

Here is the location we are staying at and photos:

Pinetop Country Club

Directions:

EXACT DIRECTIONS WILL BE GIVEN AFTER YOU PAY $40 DEPOSIT

Manny Pacquiao won this weekend over Miguel Cotto. As if you needed to be told that. My entire friends feed on Facebook and Twitter was covered in an outpouring of support for the famed Filipino fighter. Here are some of my friends reactions.

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This week temperatures dropped to the 60s for the high, bringing back memories of hot chocolate, Christmas lights, sweaters, and for some of us, snowboarding. Before I got into snowboarding we did the next best thing, sledding.

In 2005 a freak snow storm in March extended our winter season just a bit longer that year. Even in Sedona, the normally rusty red rocks were all but covered up with the white snow. In our attempt to reach Flagstaff for some snow play (read blog story about the accident), we only got to Prescott, which had over a foot of snow there.

Right near the trout farm in Oak Creek Canyon is a campsite I’ve visited many times when I was younger so I wanted to capture the snow with Oak Creek. This shot was taken right on the bridge that goes over the river to the trout farm.

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Snow in Sedona