How did your love of snow start-

I know this may be a little random, but I would just like to hear how everyone started snowboarding.

The first time I went to a ski field (a lot of ski fields are too small to be called resorts in New Zealand..) was when I was 12 and it was for a school trip. We went to Mt Hutt in NZ, and I first rode skis, had a 2 hour lesson and spent a few hours on the learners slope.
You may not believe this, but I literally did not fall a single time the whole day... So my love of snow began.

My family is not a ski/board family at all, so for the next couple years I only managed to get on some skis once.
When I was 15 I went on a YMCA ski camp trip, it was a 6 day trip where you got to go to 2 mountains over 4 days in a row, ended up going to Mt Dobson (tiny club field) and then Mt Hutt. I decided to try snowboarding the first day and loved it :D The next day I thought id try skiing again just to mix it up, but it just felt.. wrong.
So I ended up snowboarding for the rest of the trip

I didnt have any opportunities or money to go up the mountain in NZ (went a couple times in Korea) until I got into uni and joined a snow sports club by myself, which was probably the best thing Ive done at uni, and also got into the committee..
Met some really awesome people, made loads of friends and been improving on this tiny club mountain called Temple Basin which is our base field.

Snowboarding is definitely going to be my lifelong obsession...

Ah true I guess so, Alaska sounds sweet! I envy people who started boarding so early in their lives, so much more time to improve your skills...
Working closely with boards must be real awesome!

I was maybe 11 and my cousins (who were avid skiers) invited me to Boreal (LOL which is like a hill) I went down, and felt like I was gliding full speed....I never realized how much going down a snow covered hill was so much fun!

With snowboarding, I remembered when linking my turns became fluid....I was hooked!

I started when I was 19. I've been in Kansas City for most of my life and grew up poor so going skiing or snowboarding was out of the question. KC is pretty much all flat lands and there's only one place to go to have fake snow was a big hill called Snow Creek. My good friend/roll model got me going to Snow Creek one time and it was so much fun--even after all the bruises. After a good couple of months we finally saved up for Colorado and that's how I fell in love with snow. It was the amazing feeling of floating on snow (for more than 1 minute compared to KC Snow Creek hill). Best feeling ever was when I could link carves. After that I started to share my passion with friends and family. Now, we got a group of 10 going to CO once a year.

Always loved snow from when I was a little kid...snow was the ultimate. I'd stay out sledding til midnight and always go to the local hill to tube. Then I started skating when I was about 10 and found an old snow skate for cheap and started that. Didn't start riding til I was 13 but I was HOOKED immediately. Unfortunately no one else was that hooked and the most I rode was about 5-10 days a year until I turned 17 and could drive up the hill anytime I wanted. I hit 30 days that year until March when baseball started and my season ended. Finally hit hte 40 day plateau 2010 and went west for the first time. Best year for sure.

I started at 22 and wanted to learn something new.  My friend invited me up to Mammoth and I just fell in love on the first day.  Even today I love snowboarding and will ride every opportunity I get.  Summers have become unbearable and my non snowboarding friends don't see me during the winter. 

I've met wonderful people and made some great friends and it wouldn't have been without snowboarding.  I guess I just love the challenge and the fact that you're always learning and progressing.  It's addicting.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I got to go up to Tahoe. I started snowboarding at Boreal when I was young, but only a few seasons ago that i got to go consistently.

I went from skateboarding to wakeboarding. So when I had the chance to go on exchange to the US for college I went on a 5 day snowboarding trip to prep myself and loved it from there.

So jelly of some of you people who got to grow up right by massive resorts! snowboarding is definitely a crazily addictive lifestyle..

It had always appealed to me my whole life but I had other expensive winter hobbies (hockey, backpacking).  After I graduated high school and stopped growing out of my old gear, I decided to try it, and I will never stop now.

It all started in the snow of 1996 when there was that massive snowstorm, I fell in love. I could not stop playing in the snow but I would get lost in it there was so much snow haha

I used to skateboard a lot as a kid.  My neighbor took me to Winter Park and I got addicted right away.  Been dreaming of it every day since.

I really don't fully know... But I might think it was the first time I saw a snowboarder passing me, and went for a rail :) And all thoose snowboard movies on youtube and all over the internett! :)

I grew up as a skier, then my gf taught me how to snowboard 2 yrs ago. So helpful and a great patient person. I'm glad I know how to snowboard now, it's all about tightening my turns and other things

My first snowboard experience was with my buddy and some plastic snowboards. We were young and would build little jumps in his woods and make rails out of trees and mess around. Made learning on a real snowboard effortless. Rode my first day on a 7th grade field trip, rented, and felt like I had been riding for a long time. Bought a snowboard a few weeks later. (And never got to ride till the next year haha ) 

I absoutely hate the snow but I love snowboarding.  If it never snowed in Denver again and dumped in the mountains I would be perfectly ok with that.

I hated the snow before started snowboarding, after that i LOVE the snow!

I used to live at the beach and skateboarded all the time. Then I moved to where I live now and the kids I started to hang around with were always going to the mountain during the winter time and asked me to go with them once. I went and even though I fell quite a bit, I loved it and haven't stopped since.