Far from snowy peaks, you can ski and snowboard any time of year in, of all places, a shopping mall in Dubai. If you care two wits about the environment, though, "the amount of energy this climate-defying folly consumes" will likely keep you away. If you live near real ski country, of course, you know that hardcore downhill enthusiasts will stretch the season until May or so, wishing they could do it all year.
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
Interests: Living life as an intiatic experience, uniting with like minds and hearts to build a better, cleaner, more peaceful world, listening to the wisdom of the inner voice, communing with the elemental forces of Nature, the arts, media and communications, personal growth and development, the natural healing arts, interesting cuisines, cinema, all that expands the consciousness, betters the Self, and links me with THAT from Which I come.
Inspiration: Whitman, Thoreau, the Tao, deep meditation, spiritually anointed words carried on the human voice and the Cosmic Winds, being with those of like mind and calling.