Episode #43
For this episode, by buddy Paul (from the Todd Richards episode), joined me in my basement AKA TNSP HQ – we connected with AJ and Chad over Skype. Paul used to ride with Chad in the 90’s – they kick the episode off discussing the good ole days.
Cover photo shot by Chip Proulx
Topics we discuss:
- King Pin & Wild Duck days
- Chad’s dogs Calloway and Chopper
- Instagram – Follow Chad here: @chadotterstrom
- Photography – Peep Chad’s professional photography website: www.chadotterstromphoto.com
- Chad’s nickname
- Hard Booting
- Paying attention to the minor details of Chad’s set-up
- Moving from Minnesota to Colorado
- Working at Walmart to ride
- Crews
- Summit County
- First chair at Loveland
- Van life
- Driving the Pacific Coast Highway
- Splitboarding
- Bivy sack camping
- Head tents
- Buy Chad’s $700 North Face Tent
- Following your passion
- The dirt own Connor Manning
- Judging X-Games
- How Chad got into coaching
- Solo missions
- Coyotes
- Living in Colorado
- Legal weed
- Avalanches
- Loveland pass
- Snowboarding in India
- Chad’s favorite cheeseburger
- Chad’s primal diet
- Turning 40
- Paul’s rollerskating 40th b-day
- Forty kick-flips for 40
- Chad’s snowboard video archive
- Army of Darkness (AOD crew) and the Hell Cats crew
- Bluebird Snowboards (Smokin & Marty)
- The two year curse
- Making snowboard movies
- Performance enhancing drugs
- Legal weed
- The rumor mill
- Listener questions
- Golfing or lack thereof
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