Wow has it really been 17 years?

I came across this article on the Snowboard Canada website.  They recently celebrated 20 years of publishing and in the 2012 Buyer's Guide, did a writeup that included all of the magazine covers since the beginning.

Here is the cover that I got from the Spring 1995 Issue

I did a quick glance through the list of 72 covers and although I might have made a mistake, 71 of the covers for the first 20 years have only one rider (the other one is the full 2010 Olympic team) and of those 71 covers, 6 riders got two covers.  So even though it's so long ago, it's still pretty cool to be 1 of 65 riders on the cover over a 20 year period.  These days there are way more than 65 snowboarders in front of me in lift line every time I get to the chairlift, some days you'd swear there are that many even when out in the backcountry.  Back in the day it was so cool that there would literally be 3-5 other riders on the whole mountain and you'd know each other by the end of the day.  Although I'm not as close to the snowboard scene as I once was, I still love to ride, it has shaped my life and continues to, but obviously there's way different priorities now.

I wonder if out of those 65 riders if I'm the only sucker to get a PhD???  I shouldn't be negative...I'm happy that I did my PhD it's just that finishing has been anti-climactic and now the "what's next?" adds to that somewhat.

Until next time....