LAU R IE PEAR M AN
Boisean Ryan Neptune knows how to turn an opening into a business.
BEST IDAHO GONE GLOBAL
Neptune Industries neptuneindustries.com Snowboarders and skaters sometimes get stereotyped as slackers, but that label has never fit Boise native Ryan Neptune, who turned a passion for sports into an international business. Neptune Industries has become a world leader in snowboard terrain park design and construction, as well as skatepark design and now resort consultation. Besides, how bad is a job that requires you to spend the day on the slopes?
BEST EXCUSE FOR BIKING IN AN ’80S PROM DRESS
Heads up, single dudes who dig the strong, sweaty ladies: The Dirty and Pink afterparty has some pretty sweet odds.
BEST REASON TO HIKE UPHILL
Tamarack Resort
When the lifts come to a halt and are nearly repo’d just as the snow is getting springlike, there is only one thing to do: hike. Tamarack may have shut down prematurely last winter, Hooray for ladycats. Far too many sweaty dudes ride fixies in the average but that didn’t stop anybody. Where there is snow and elevation, there alley cat race. Though Dirty and Pink, in its fourth year, is an all-chick, dress- are people willing to hoof it. Added bonus: Ver y few other people are up bike race, it’s most definitely not actually willing to walk uphill on skis, for any pedaling princesses. Divided so you get all the turns to yourself. into road bike and cruiser divisions, Besides, it looks like that will be this year’s alley cat took hordes of the only option at the still-shuttered ’80s-fashion-clad racers all across resor t this winter. Boise before finally ending up at the Visual Arts Collective in Garden City.
Dirty and Pink Alleycat
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