Arapahoe Basin blasted off the 2013-14 snowboard season as it opened its lifts at 8:30 a.m. last Sunday.  Bear Mountain in San Bernandido, Cal. got a bit of snow too, enough to allow for some rail set-ups even.

With these mountains starting up their season, you know what that means for us over here on the East Coast: pretty much nothing.

Check out the latest issue of 'Boarder Patrol' on the New Paltz Oracle. 

You can read it righttttttttt------->HERE!