The ingenuity of a desperate snowboarder!

Talk about a smart kid with a ton of initiative! Ten year old Forest Pearson is a lot more adept than his cinematic namesake. He figured out how to make his own snow machine with $500 worth of gear from the hardware store (saved up from his pocket money of course) so he could snowboard in his backyard. In fact, he managed to create 3 feet of snow overnight.

As his mum says, "He's well past toys now. He's into air compressors and spray nozzles".

That, my friends, is a kid who will change the world.