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Title: Boarding now for UO, via Mount Hood.(Recreation)(Trucked-in snow allows a show of snowboarding skills on campus)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: May 25, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: A1

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Table of contents:
Avoiding Common Snowboarding Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Choosing a Snow Boarding Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
How to Buy a Snowboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
My Favourite Hobby: Snow Boarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
My Snow Boarding Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
My Snowboarding Hote l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Snow Board Preparation Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Snow Boarding - Increasingly Popular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Snow Boarding Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Snow Boarding Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Snow Boarding Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Snowboarding Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Snowboarding At My Local Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Snowboarding For Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Some Snowboarding Trick Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Starting a Snow Boarding Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Starting An Online Snowboarding Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Rise of Snow Boarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Why I Choose Snowboarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Why I started Snowboarding Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 ... Read more

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