If you've ever struggled to put together a string of creative tricks in the park, Snow Dice for iPhone and Android mobile devices is for you! Developed by Ted Bendixon of Send It! Apps, the app randomly selects from a variety of tricks to dictate a three-jump sequence. Why three tricks? Because Ted doesn't mess around. "I've built it for hitting the top three jumps in Park Lane in Breckenridge, so it links three jump tricks together."

The app possesses some intelligence - it knows you have to go switch into the next jump if you landed the previous jump switch - and users can tweak the settings to have certain types of tricks come up more often (i.e., Rodeos, Misties, Corks, or minimum and maximum spins). For only 99 cents, you and your friends can now spend less time bickering over what tricks would look dope on film, and spend more time actually perfecting that Beef Curtain grab you always forget exists. The app also works for rail tricks, meaning it's not just for those that prefer to spend their time in the air.

To download the app, hit up either the iTunes store or the Android App store, or visit the Snow Dice blog.

With spring doing all it can to make its presence known (I even played golf this week), the question on many snowboarder's minds, at least in the Northeast, is this: "Which resorts are still open?" Fortunately, there are a handful of mountains still open for lift-served snowboarding!

In Vermont, some of the resorts in the northern part of the state are still open - namely Jay Peak and Sugarbush. Killington is also open, with plans to offer skiing and snowboarding into early May. Elsewhere in the region, Sunday River and Sugarloaf are also open, with plans to continue offering skiing and snowboarding for another week or two.

Spring snowboarding is the reward for persevering through a long, cold, often harsh winter season. The snow is plentiful, the air is warm, and the sunshine is stronger than it has been in months. Get out and make some turns while the opportunity presents itself!

Spring snow is great - soft and forgiving - but it can also be slow and sticky, which is where high quality spring wax comes into play. Spring waxes are hydrophobic, meaning they repel water, allowing the base of your snowboard to glide freely regardless of the water content of the late season snow. Due to their unique properties, spring waxes tend to wear off faster than mid-winter waxes, requiring frequent "touch-ups" and reapplication throughout the day. If you find your snowboard sticking to the snow, odds are it's time to reapply the wax!

I was going to blog today about the various types of spring snowboard wax, all of which are designed to help your snowboard glide better over soft, wet, mushy spring snow...but then I thought back to the runs I took this weekend in Vermont, and realized that while it's here on the calendar, in reality, spring has yet to arrive in the mountains!

My home mountain, Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont, was still 100% open on Sunday, April 3^rd! Think about that...it's time for April showers to bring May flowers, yet we're still snowboarding ALL over the mountain. We're in the bumps. We're in the halfpipe. We're in the trees. Suffice to say, it's been a great season!

Most of the major resorts in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine are planning on staying open through April 17^th, with Sunday River in Maine spinning the lifts through April 24^th. The season's not over just yet!