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Winter X Games snowboarding

Monday, 01. 29. 2007  –  Category: Video

The Winter X games went off over the last few days at Aspen/Buttermilk in Colorado. Here’s some video I’ve scavanged from around the web:

Bonfire Radiant snowboard pants

Monday, 01. 22. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

I bought a pair of Bonfire Radiant pants just before my last trip. Here’s a review:
I was after a fair of fairly high spec pants, and the Radiant pants fit the bill at 10,000/10,000 waterproofing and breathability. These are the two stats you need concern yourself with when buying outerwear I discovered after [...]

Avalanche survival tip: don’t swim

Monday, 01. 22. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Interesting post at pistehors.com which picks up on comments by avalanche expert Dale Atkins who has nearly 20 experience working as a senior avalanche forecaster, ski patroller and rescue worker.
Atkins says that the most important thing to do if buried is to maintain a breathing space around your mouth. In twenty years of investigating incidents [...]

Romanian snowboarders no-snow protest

Wednesday, 01. 17. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

A group of snowboarders held a protest in Romania recently about the lack of snow.
Romanian snowboarders blocked traffic by staging a protest in front of the national weather institute to complain about the lack of snow.
The sit down protest in the capital Bucharest only ended when weathermen told them their complaint “would be passed on [...]

Morzine, Avoriaz and the Portes du Soleil

Monday, 01. 15. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

I stayed in Morzine for 10 days over New Year and got most of my snowboarding in at Avoriaz. Here’s the trip report I’d been promising.
After an overnight stop in Geneva on December 28th, we got our transfer to Morzine first thing the following morning. We checked into our apartment and those of [...]

Happy New Year

Wednesday, 01. 10. 2007  –  Category: Site news

Haven’t posted for a while, ironically as I’ve been out riding for 10 days over the New Year period.
Will post a trip report soon. For now, I’ve just updated the header which had always been pretty bland/out-of-box up until now. It’s a photo taken on my last day in Morzine, about to take [...]

Snowboard insurance

Tuesday, 01. 9. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

I tend to deal with travel insurance annually, rather than each time I go away. It really takes the hassle factor out, and as I’m fairly lazy with such things, suits me down to the ground.
I’m onto the third year now, but it occurred to me the other day that my initial policy may [...]