Snowboarding can be tricky, especially if your board is designed for something else. It’s a challenge 11-year-old Mickey Watkins embraces as he tries to stand on a plastic tote bin lid while sliding down a small but precarious hill near his home.
“It does not work,” he said with a frustrated smile after another failed attempt nearly sent him falling.
The tattered, flimsy lid is all he has to work with, along with the desire to emulate what the pros showed him last winter…