We left Florida on Friday for our first snowboarding and camping adventure. We left as soon as Brandon wrapped up his semester exams and drove until 11:30. We stayed the first night at the Holiday Inn Express in Hickory, which was a 5K PointsBreak® hotel, making it basically free. I set the alarm for 6AM on Saturday so that we would have enough time to eat breakfast and get to Sugar Mountain Resort before they opened. We all dressed into our ski clothes and checked out. I had set the GPS to Banner Elk, so it took us a new way, through Morgonton. We still arrived right before 9AM and were able to get a pretty good parking spot. Ryan signed up for lessons, while Brandon, Trevor and I did a couple runs. We started out on the Green, but headed up quickly to try out the new run. It …keep reading …