Hannah Teter, the 19-year-old snowboarder who won Olympic gold on Tuesday in the halfpipe event, spends her free time doing yoga, stir-frying tofu (her favorite), and eating organic food. She’s also told reporters that she likes “to relax with candles and read spiritual books.”

The Vermont native––who’s been on the slopes since she was eight–– told CBS news that she’s “super-blessed” to be a professional boarder. “To have a passion for something, put so much into it, and then receive it back is so great,” she added. And of her victory this week, she said, “I was just kind of playing it mellow and having fun and feeling the sunshine and the crowd and it was just really a good time.”

It sounds like Teter has embraced the surfer, conscious consumer lifestyle. It makes me want to strap on a board and feel the sunshine myself. In case you are also so inspired, Away.com has a list of great spots to snowboard this season. Though initially, “the sport was greeted with the same scorn a security guard reserves for a skateboarder,” says Away, now that it’s in its third Olympics, much of that has lifted, revealing a bevy of “sick terrain parks and towering half pipes, others offer glade runs tailor-made for tight turns… knee-deep powder…it's all here.”

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