You're right, every core rider started out as a newbie. I've taught some people how to ride (usually in a ski school, on occasion, not), and it is exciting to see someone "get it."

There are so many other paths this discussion could take, but I'll leave it there for now.

I rode almost 100 days last year. If that's core, then I definitely did it poor, and I did it as a form of recreation. Call me what you will, I don't want to hear it unless you have something nice to say.

Sounds like you're dissatisfied with snowboard publications being concerned with "Who's hot now?" And yet some dissatisfaction with that approach.

Right? Wrong? Way off track?

Maybe this is all so much inside baseball. I'd like the snowboarding media to pay more attention to recreational riders.

Snowboarding is not about writing yourself off as a has been who still rides, and that's the problem with so many riders who were once at the semi-pro level even.

For someone to still flipping care about riding, there has to be someone who looks at Terje's part in TB2 and think there is fundamentally something there.

I have come back to snowboarding from a long break.

And I look at a Lucas Magoon part and I am like…. holy smokes.

At the same time, if you read the interviews and stuff like that, you might see there is a dissatisfaction with only having snowboarding be a youth sport.

When Lucas Magoon grows old?

What will happen? Can he bring the media with him to the powder spots, or will he retire?

That's the question about snowboard magazines and media culture.