One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when … you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.