Attention All Snowboarders

I know Utah and Colorado have some great options when it comes to getting groovy on the slopes, but if you've never experienced snowboarding in the great city of Chicago, you are missing out! Check out these black diamonds...
This was a competition, with contestants coming from all over the midwest, held on Michigan Ave, downtown Chicago. We could not believe how serious everyone took this and the number of spectators it drew. It was tower of wood and metal, a couple rails, and that's about it. The difficulty of finding good slopes in the flat midwest...