Snowboarding
One of the youngest Olympic sports, snowboarding debuted at the Nagano Winter Games, as recently as 1998. Today, as US-favorite Shaun White shows off his trademark 1080 (three complete mid-air rotations) in Torino, you can practice some snowboarding stunts of your own back home, on legendary Rocky Mountain terrain. Breckenridge, Colorado has been helping boarders catch major air and craft their freestyle skills for more than 20 years and boasts the Superpipe (a 400-foot-long snow corridor with 18-foot walls) and Freeway Terrain Park, a super-star snowboard park with all the necessities for airborne tricks, spins, and super-speed runs. Breckenridge also has three smaller parks to ride on before you take on the kings of the pipe; the best are on the Eldorado on Peak 9 runs.
