’Still going to send it’: Esteemed snowboard coach returns to Breckenridge snow after life-altering snowboarding accident

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’Still going to send it’: Esteemed snowboard coach returns to Breckenridge snow after life-altering snowboarding accident

On Christmas Eve 2020, Chris Waker wasn’t huddled around the fire celebrating the holiday. He was on the mountain — before his life changed in an instant. A professional snowboard coach, Waker was enjoying the winter day with a friend and an athlete before he left one of Copper Mountain Resort’s terrain parks and the unthinkable happened.  “There was a little roller up ahead,” Waker said. “I was going pretty fast, but it was an easy run. I went …