YOU CAN'T GO BACK

All good things must pass and we all trudge on. Growing up snowboarding with good friends was more like hanging out with an odd extended family of people from all over New England. I just found this old crumpled up MIA ad with Doug Byrnes under the seat of my car. I don't remember how it got there, but when I pulled it out and saw it I was stoked. Stoked to have been a part of when snowboarding was really just blooming and nothing really mattered all that much when it came to rules and cares. I was introduced to the Byrnes family through Kovall, Tabor, Muzz..Alexie and whoever else had made the Byrnes house at Stratton a flophouse of kids looking for a floor to sleep on and to build a weekend of total sloppy memories. Back when anyone who was at the Open knew to just finish the nights off at the Hayes house where a whos who of riders and randoms gathered to make some noise. Brushie may have been spinning records, and the vibe would have been perfect. A lot has changed with snowboarding over the last twenty some odd years and really when you think about it, not much has changed at all. The faces have come and gone, and companies ...many ..many companies have faded into oblivion. MIA snowboards was a really sick smaller producton. Although long gone, I still tune quite a few every winter and people won't give them up.......no big news here, just a cool memory that not many people may be able to share with me but those that knew Doug and MIA might just have a smile on their face by seeing the ad again. Peace...Bub