Wait!!! there are some Mayan relics with images of Spacemen Snowboarding so maybe the End has already come and passed us by ... 99% of Snowboarders Don't Carve in the first place so who cares if that number goes down ? ;) Carving at Milk topped out in 1999 or 2000...many went back to Skis... the Motion of the Body Carving on a Snowboard is Different than Skiing... Not Better...Different, and for some the Difference of that Motion is not something they can or will give up...:) after 27 years I am looking forward to another 27 just to make sure it was as Good as I thought it was and of course no matter how many Miles one has Carved, there is a Progression in the Moshun, in the Line Drawn Fine and True from top to bottom...