Message Boardin

Desiree is a bad bitch that is on the forefront of women’s snowboarding with a number of progressive video parts and—in my opinion—the best style of any female. She continues to surprise the snowboarding world by thinking outside the box. Right now she is working on a very ambitious project called The United Slopes Of America where she is attempting to visit every resort in the U.S. to mingle with the locals, film everything along the way and write a book about the whole experience while living in a camper shell on the back of her Toyota that her and her father built by hand. More importantly for this column, Desiree is a very smart individual who is not afraid to voice her opinion, even if it offends everyone around her. That is why I asked her to do this Message Boardin’.

- Bode Merrill

You’re stuck on an island and can have 3 things, what would you pick?

—@BANANNALA, VIA INSTAGRAM

I mean, would I be stuck forever? Am I supposed to survive? I think I would try to survive because that’s in my nature, so I would want a machete, a guide to survival on a stranded island, and a GoPro with a solar charger and a 64MB card to document my experience until I’m rescued. Then I would post it on every social media platform so I could make some money off of this misfortunate experience.

What’s your favorite mountain to shred at?

—@BLACKMARKET, VIA INSTAGRAM