Richmond Hills Airboarding

12.21.09. After 4 days of being stuck in my neighborhood due to the snow and the city of Asheville Public Works' inability to scrape the roads, the temperatures finally climbed high enough to allow me to get my vehicle out. I promptly headed for the buffet at El Chapala and then to Richmond Hills park to try my airboard since there was some real snow.

An airboard is kind of like the sports car of sleds. It is inflatable and has runners along the bottom that allow it to turn. You can even do jumps on them. Airboarding was developed in Switzerland and lots of people do it there. Currently there are only about 5 or 6 resorts in the United States that allow airboarding. Check out the manufacturer at www.airboard.com and the leader for all head first sports, www.facelevel.com . Then go bug the heck out of your local ski resort until they allow it and support the ones that already do.

Nothing major, just a few short runs, but still a great day of tromping around through the snow and playing around.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Richmond Hills park
• airboarding
• face level
• teamfli
• extreme sleding

[Herudea]

gnarly.