{"id":807893,"date":"2020-05-28T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384100"},"modified":"2020-05-28T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:25:20","slug":"summit-snowboard-legend-chad-otterstrom-reflects-on-2019-20-backcountry-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-snowboard-legend-chad-otterstrom-reflects-on-2019-20-backcountry-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit snowboard legend Chad Otterstrom reflects on 2019-20 backcountry season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fresh line in the high Alpine ridden by Summit County snowboard legend Chad Otterstrom.<\/strong>
Courtesy Chad Otterstrom<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Though snowboarding might seem like a young sport to some, there are veteran riders who have been in the game so long they can reflect nostalgically about their glory days from a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n

Summit County legend Chad Otterstrom and his Aspen-based backcountry-slaying snowboard buddy Doran Laybourn are two of those guys. They\u2019re the kind of friends who share with each other, and the Instagram snowboarding world, an old photo that harkens back to the start of it all: a results list from the United States of America Snowboard Association Nationals at Giants Ridge Recreation Area in Minnesota in 1995.<\/p>\n

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In this 1995 United States of America Snowboard Association Nationals start list, shared to Instagram by Doran Laybourn last week, Summit County snowboard legend Chad Otterstrom is listed as the slopestyle winner along with future snowboard stars such as Laybourn, Danny Kass, Steve Fisher and Shaun White.<\/strong>
Courtesy Chad Otterstrom<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Otterstrom, then a Minnesota kid, won in the 17- to 18-year-old slopestyle division while the Colorado kid Laybourn won in the 13-14 division. Other names on the snowboard relic include future American Olympic snowboard star medalist Danny Kass winning the Menehune 11-12 division and Otterstrom\u2019s fellow Minnesota native and future Breckenridge legend Steve Fisher finishing runner-up to Kass.<\/p>\n

Oh, and scribbled in at the top is a kid named Shawn White \u2014 first-name misspelled \u2014 the runner-up in the youngest division, 10-and-under grommets. A decade later, he became the mainstream Olympic face of snowboarding globally.<\/p>\n

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