Andy Finch is a really, really nice kid. He's been dealt some bad hands in life, but he's always got a smile on his face and is happy to be healthy for the first time in several years and just out snowboarding for the fun of it....and winning the recent World Heli Challenge in New Zealand this past month.

He's thinking of trying to make a run at the Olympics one more time. He's got a lot of young bucks that have double-corked yahddy, yahddy, yahs under their belts, so I told him he shoud just do nothing more than 9's....and maybe even do like a couple 5's just huge and floaty though OG style. He his pretty OG now, you know?

Well this was out in the Tahoe Backcountry 3 winters ago about a month after he got back from the Winter Olympics in Turino, Italy.