On a rainy day, running 30-minutes late to the Snowboard Pipe Finals, we hopped on the gondola without really caring who's car we intruded on. Turns out we hitched a ride with #3 in the overall Freeski Slopestyle rankings. 17-year-old Bobby Brown, a Colorado native currently living in Denver, was on his way to watch Pipe final in the pouring rain.


He was super relaxed and up for conversation, and we talked a bit about all the time he's spent in Europe this year. He actually moved out of Breckenridge, where he trains, to Denver, which is an hour away, to be closer to the airport. Funny, huh? Not too many teenagers are relocating to better coordinate their travel schedules. But whatever; he still seemed like any other nice kid having a quaint conversation on the lift.