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Snowboard luggage airline costs

Tuesday, 09. 30. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

About this time last year I posted up a link to a piece of research into the costs charged by each of the major airlines flying from the UK to ski airports in Europe for checking in your skis or snowboard.
Well, APH have updated their research and things have changed! RyanAir now costs a [...]

Wild camping & hiking in Scotland: Isle of Arran

Tuesday, 09. 23. 2008  –  Category: Outdoors

I took a trip a week or two ago up to Scotland, hiking and camping with 4 friends. The concept was simple: walk round the coast of Arran from Brodick to Lochranza via the Goat Fell peak, cross the Kintyre peninsula to Islay, wild camping each night.
I’ll split this over two posts, as there’s [...]

Duathlon training

Sunday, 09. 21. 2008  –  Category: Mountain biking, Running

6 days to go before the Xtreme Terrain Festival and the 10k/24k/5k run/mountain bike/run event I’m taking part in. Spent this morning doing a little bike maintenance, switched my road tyres for off-roads in preparation, and did what probably will be my last training run.
I did roughly the equivalent of half the distance in [...]

Snowboard season approaching

Friday, 09. 19. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

…the Whitelines magazine Friday Fix is back for the 2008-09 ski snowboard season.

Photos like this - even on a fairly sunny September afternoon - do get me excited about the coming season.
Got to get some trips planned and booked.

German skateboarder wanted for breaking speed limit

Tuesday, 09. 9. 2008  –  Category: Everything else, Video

A man is wanted in Germany for breaking the speed limit on a motorway, traveling at 100kph in an 80 zone… on a skateboard.

Video above from the Telegraph.
The film clip, which has surfaced on internet websites, shows several cars escorting the skateboarder, allowing his collaborators to record the event.
The German magazine, Stern, said the man [...]

Variety is the spice of life

Monday, 09. 8. 2008  –  Category: Site news

Regular readers might have noticed my last few posts have had little to do with snowboarding. Those of you who also visit the site and don’t just read the posts from your feed reader (sign up for our RSS feed here if you haven’t already) will have noticed the lick of paint, and the [...]

Just Buggin’ (Nothing Serious), Whistle

Sunday, 09. 7. 2008  –  Category: Music

Catching up on some of my snowboard blog RSS feeds, and was reading Kat’s playlist and saw this absolute classic.

Can’t believe this was out in 1985 - I would have been 6 or 7 years old, but still remember most of the words.
We’re called Whistle and this is true
We love to do the things that [...]

Xtreme Terrain Festival duathlon

Thursday, 09. 4. 2008  –  Category: Mountain biking, Running

I’ve entered a duathlon, coming up in 4 weeks time. The Xtreme Terrain Festival is taking place at Hawley Lake, Camberley, and offers a choice of events from:

10k cross country run
Off road duathlon - run, bike, run
Off road triathlon - swim, bike, run
Xtreme Terrain Aquathon - swim, run

There are sprint and full distances for [...]

Sauna ski lift

Tuesday, 09. 2. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

This must get a bit sweaty when you’re wearing your full winter gear…

Travel Weekly has posted images of a gondola/bubble lift done out as a sauna, and asks the question: which country is this in?