‘Shredding Babes’: Team USA Dominates the Women’s Halfpipe Competition

USA's Kaitlyn Farrington wins halfpipe gold (USA Today)

It didn't take long for the Farrington family to come up with a formula for how they were going to pay for their teenage daughter, Kaitlyn, to start traveling the country to participate in snowboarding contests.

If it was a short trip from their home near Sun Valley, Idaho, somewhere like Jackson Hole, Wyo. or Summit County, Colo., Gary Farrington would need to sell one cow from their ranch at auction. If Kaitlyn needed to bring along a coach, he might need to sell two.