Winner of seven World Cup titles, Evan Strong looks to make the inaugural U.S. Paralympic Snowboarding Team for Sochi 2014.
Evan Strong grew up on Maui, where the only ice is shaved and served in cones or pina coladas, and winter sports are surfing, skateboarding and swimming.
Today, he’s still a bit surprised that the former Hawaiian kid is now a snowboarding demon, a guy who’s getting impatient for winter storms to start dumping fresh powder all over the Sierra Nevada and Rockies.
“When I go back home (to Maui) and see all my friends, it’s kind of hard for them to wrap their minds around it, because they really don’t know anything about it,” Strong said of his snowboarding career. “A lot of my friends haven’t even seen snow, but they’re all really stoked. … They don’t even know what I’m doing here or what it means, they just know it’s good.”
In Strong’s case, it’s all good.
The former kid skateboarding wiz in Hawaii, now 25, is a leading candidate for the U.S. Paralympic men’s snowboarding team at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, where the sport will make its Games debut. Until then, he’s enjoying mountain life in the little town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour’s drive west of Lake Tahoe.
It’s there that he and his wife, Mariah, are building their own home, operate their organic vegetarian restaurant, The Fix for Foodies, with their family, and Evan can feed his passion for snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing and any other outdoor activities that happen to catch his attention. Read More
Today, he’s still a bit surprised that the former Hawaiian kid is now a snowboarding demon, a guy who’s getting impatient for winter storms to start dumping fresh powder all over the Sierra Nevada and Rockies.
“When I go back home (to Maui) and see all my friends, it’s kind of hard for them to wrap their minds around it, because they really don’t know anything about it,” Strong said of his snowboarding career. “A lot of my friends haven’t even seen snow, but they’re all really stoked. … They don’t even know what I’m doing here or what it means, they just know it’s good.”
In Strong’s case, it’s all good.
The former kid skateboarding wiz in Hawaii, now 25, is a leading candidate for the U.S. Paralympic men’s snowboarding team at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, where the sport will make its Games debut. Until then, he’s enjoying mountain life in the little town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour’s drive west of Lake Tahoe.
It’s there that he and his wife, Mariah, are building their own home, operate their organic vegetarian restaurant, The Fix for Foodies, with their family, and Evan can feed his passion for snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing and any other outdoor activities that happen to catch his attention. Read More
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