Now past the first anniversary of the retirement of our former leader, Brother Lloyd Carr, the WLA has sent an expeditionary team out in the wilderness to track down Brother Carr to find out what he has been up to lately.

In our first installment, we caught up with Lloyd at the Breckenridge Gran Prix Half Pipe Finals at Breckenridge, Colorado.

Lloyd has been an avid snowboarder ever since the 1995 Purdue game when he realized that if you’re going to get stuck in miserable weather, you may as well have some fun in it. The Gran Prix featured the continuation of a rivalry started a year earlier in Aspen, between Lloyd and Shaun White, who fought over the top two spots to the last run. In the end Lloyd’s effort couldn’t best the Shaun White juggernaut.

Having spent only a handful of days on snow so far this year hasn’t slowed Lloyd down one bit, as he has conducted mental preparations be reading “Into Thin Air”, reciting Kipling, and the implementation of Barwis’ snow boarders’ work out regime. Lloyd’s run consisted of a frontside melon on the first hit followed by a backside nine, frontside ten, and finally finishing up with his standby alley oop backside rodeo (uh, in English?).

In preparation for the Winter X Games, Lloyd is going to be hanging up his board and cracking open “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny” by Robin Sharma.