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"I guess I never figured I'd get this far, " said Salt Lake City snowboarder Becky Nix on Saturday, July, 2, 2016, of her 120th consecutive month of snowboarding. "It's encouraged me to go on adventures that I normally wouldn't have done." Nix completed her 10th year on the Sugarbowl run at Alta Ski resort. It all started during a casual snowboarding invitation from a fellow graduate student at the University of Colorado, who had her own streak to maintain and was looking for a companion for the summertime outing.