By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Some might call it a Christmas miracle.

Almost two years to the day that Kevin Pearce came close to dying after a horrifying accident, the world-famous snowboarder is back on the slopes.

Months of intense rehab enabled Pearce to get back up on his board at Colorado's Breckenridge Ski Resort.

"It felt so good," Pearce, 24, told People. "It just feels so much like before. There's nothing really new for me that I have to relearn, so that was nice. I'm really in the right state to be snowboarding right now."