soon, the snow will come...

i want to learn to snowboard. i neeeed to learn to snowboard. i think i'm going to spend a lot of free time over the next few days researching snowboarding and figuring out how to go about buying boards and so forth. i know that there's this whole subculture thing that goes on around snowboarding but being as i'm from a country where we don't generally have snow, let alone enough to slide downhill on a small wooden board.

so, how to get kitted out. hmmmm. okay, firstly i tried Burton, which is a user-friendly site, not too hyper-cool, with lots of information... great for newbies like me. there is a lot of advice and information given...