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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Jeremy Jones : Origins of Snowboarding

Backcountry.com sponsored Athlete Jeremy Jones has been in Turkey recently and posted this amazing story on his blog. Seems they stumbled upon a village in the mountains where people have been pracitcing a form of snowboarding for a long, long time.

Photo: Bernard Ritzer

Labels: Backcountry.com, Fun, Snowboarding

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