Now here's a little story 'bout a feller named Uriah. Poor old kid
barely kept his board down. Til one day he was spinning in the park
when up from the ground came a bubbling ooze, P-tex that is. Cold gold.
No doubt if you've ever ventured up the Donner Summit area,
Boreal's Jibassic Park to be exact, you've encountered the likes of
the Solid guys. These guys rule the place spinning cannonball
backside 360s over the biggest gaps around. One of the low key
individuals is a tall skinny white guy named Uriah Birch. Cory
Ahtoong says he looks like Snoop Dogg without the braid and the tan.
Uriah is actually a local of the Donner Summit area, where he
currently resides with his mother in the town of Truckee. The small
town leaves very little for the lad to do except snowboard, and I saw
him on the hill probably 100 days last year and I'm sure he went
more than I did. One thing that can be said about Uriah's riding style
is he is very smooth. That combined with the amount of air
underneath his board makes him a well balanced rider. Although I've
never seen him butter the muffin he can step some fat switchy
frontside 3s, and if you go 5 feet high on a jump he'll go 10 and make
it look clean. When he does ride Jibassic he can usually be found
with Matt and Aaron Alves, little Zack and fat Matt. When he's not at
the park he can be found with his girl or out mashing on his Schwinn
lowrider down at 7-Eleven looking for something to get into. Uriah
has been riding for Solid Snowboards for a couple of years now and
he swears by the performance of his equipment.
-Matt Kennedy
