Snowboarding - tell me all about it!

[Cassandra_Cain]

Responses whether long-winded, short-winded, middle-aged, or whatever, are welcome

A helmet and wrist guards sound fairly simple and obvious ways to give yourself at least some protection. I'll be opting for both.

Sounds like the surface you are on makes a difference - is there one that is better - Powder? What about man-made or packed powder?

I almost went today but opted to wait till next week since I need to get some proper gear (decent pants, helmet, etc).

I understand those of you who have skied a bit found snowboarding different and probably a step backward initially.

My case is different since i"m really not a skier (unless skiing 1x like 10 years ago makes me a skier ). So I'm going in totally new and without any experience or habits or expectations from skiing.

Well actually my expectations are along the lines of:

day 1 - 5 hours on backside, 5 minutes upright(during lunch probably!)
day 2 - 5 hours on backside, 5 minutes upright
day 3 - at least 10 minutes upright