X-Games champion snowboarder praises Metro Detroit's outdoors

From good snowboarding drops to fishing lakes, the region's got a mix of everything, and that's the way Danny Davis likes it.

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"Michigan is a beautiful place, it raised me well," says snowboarder  Danny Davis, who won the snowboard superpipe at this year's Winter X Games. Davis hails from Highland Township (population 19,202), less than an hour from Detroit. "It's a funny place," he says. "Classic  Midwest: lots of Detroit Red Wings fans, dirt bikes, pond hockey, and a lot of horses and lakes."

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