Twelve-year-old Lucas Roelfsema has an unusual hobby for someone living on the flat lands of southern Saskatchewan.

"I play volleyball, I snow board, I wake board, and I bike," he says. The one that seems out of place on a prairie landscape is snowboarding.

"I usually have an empty dugout that I can snowboard in," the Weyburn Junior High student from McTaggart explains.

As the snow piles up in winter, it steepens the walls of the dugout. Roelfsema says he usually rides around the dugout, but he has also been to the mountains in Alberta.

The Grade 7 student says he's been snow boarding since he was in Grade 4.

"My cousin influenced me and I thought it was really neat to watch so I decided to try it." Roelfsema says his first run was scary and he had some major "spills." But this experience didn't deter him from trying other new sports.

"I got started into water-skiing again this summer," he says, and it was during this time that he discovered wake boarding.

"It's almost like snow boarding except you're on water and it's a wider board," he explains.

Roelfsema says he has his own wake board and his family often takes its boat out to Nickle Lake for water-skiing and wake boarding.

The diminutive athlete says the next adventure on his list is the luge. He'll probably have to move to a bigger dugout.