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A few snowboard trips

Thursday, 03. 18. 2010  –  Category: Snowboarding

It’s finally Winter Olympics time, so I thought I’d post this picture in honour of the half-pipe kicking off today, courtesy of Constantin at the HighBallBlog.
I’ve had a few random snowboard trips to report on this season.
Firstly, 4 days in Cervinia back in December. A fun trip with 6 of us out for 4 [...]

Shaun White’s gold medal run, Vancouver Olympics 2010

Tuesday, 02. 23. 2010  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

I missed all the half-pipe snowboarding at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics last week, including Shaun White’s winning run. If you’ve checked YouTube you’ll struggle to find it anywhere. However mpora came up with the goods. Albeit a camcorder pointed at a tv screen. Still, you can see Shaun White pulling [...]

Jeremy Jones’ DEEPER movie from Teton Gravity Research

Saturday, 12. 12. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

I just watched the trailer for the forthcoming Jeremy Jones movie Deeper. This film is going to raise the bar for snowboarding movies once again. In fact, this looks like no ordinary snowboard movie and I can’t see how anyone is going to match this.

You can read more about the film over at [...]

Setting up Flow bindings

Tuesday, 12. 1. 2009  –  Category: Running, Snowboarding

Republishing this post as it’s been attracting comments ever since we originally posted in November 2006
Nothing seems to cause more dispute amongst snowboarders than the dispute over Flow bindings.
Added comfort vs. lack of control
No strap pain vs. extra weight
Cool as you like vs. WTF is that?

Buy Flow bindings online
Choose from a range of Flow’s available [...]

Snowboarding off cliffs

Saturday, 11. 28. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Skiing or snowboarding off a cliff. The idea sounds frankly nuts in itself. Watching a good skier or snowboarder flying off a cliff-drop is spectacular and awe inspiring, but given the right conditions (powder) and landing (steep enough incline) isn’t as hard as it looks. You can’t hurt yourself in the air [...]

New season, new Salomon boots and bindings

Saturday, 11. 7. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

Last season I picked up a new snowboard - the K2 Believer. I’ve just added to the new set-up with new boots and bindings - Salomon F22 boots and Salomon Relay Thruster bindings.

I realised last season that both boots and bindings were feeling quite soft and not giving me the precise control I was [...]

K2 Slayblade review

Saturday, 10. 10. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’ve been flicking through this seasons gear in the latest Snowandrock catalogue and one snowboard that’s caught my eye is the K2 Slayblade. Only in researching this post did I realise this board has been brought in to replace the K2 Zeppelin - a board with a 13 year history, and generally known as [...]

Package ski holidays vs. independent. Where’s the value?

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

I stumbled upon a presentation by Crystal Ski, the largest ski holiday operator here in the UK, which gives some interesting stats on the 2008/09 ski season from a business perspective.
The report itself is well worth a peruse if you’re interested in the UK ski travel industry (i.e. UK skiers/snowboarders travelling outside of the UK), [...]

Absinthe’s Neverland movie filmed in Cervinia

Thursday, 10. 1. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

I’m currently planning what will be my first snowboarding trip of the season - Cervinia for the 8th time I think in December.
The Indian Park blog jogged my memory that the latest offering from the Absinthe boys was filled in none other than Breuil-Cervinia, amongst other spots.
The trailer looks pretty sweet.

I’ve not watched a new [...]

Metro Ski & Snowboard Show, Olympia - Win tickets

Friday, 09. 25. 2009  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

It’s that time of year again. The Metro Ski and Snowboard Show is back at London Olympia between 21st and 25th October.

We’ve been promised a few sets of tickets to give away so keep your eyes peeled here for details of how you can win tickets to the ski show.
In the meantime, you can [...]

Jeremy Jones Profile: Boots are Made for Walking

Sunday, 02. 22. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Don’t usually cover pro snowboarders here, but thought this Jeremy Jones video was pretty cool. Jeremy is a big advocate of watching your carbon footprint, and is founder/CEO of POW: Protect Our Winters, a “non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the global warming crisis by uniting the winter sports community”.

Over the years, the name “Jeremy [...]

Gressoney, Monterosa snowboarding off-piste

Sunday, 02. 15. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

A couple of weeks ago I had 2 days snowboarding in the Monterosa ski area, based in the central of the 3 valleys - Gressoney, with neighbouring Champuloc and Alagne either side.
Monterosa has a reputation as a “freeride heaven” attracting a serious croud of dedicated powder hounds. At the time we went, despite there [...]

Decorating my new house with snowboarding memorabilia

Sunday, 01. 18. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’m planning on moving house in the summer and have been lining up a few new pictures to hang on the walls. Firstly, I’ve had a photo blown up that I took a couple of years ago whilst hiking the south coast walk between Falmouth and Looe (Cornwall, UK).

I’ve been wanting to add something [...]

Cervinia powder weekend

Tuesday, 12. 16. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

What a start to the 2008-2009 snowboarding season! I had the pleasure of 4 days riding deep powder in Cervinia at the start of December.
For the last 4 years, I’ve always started the season in Cervinia, either late November or early December, 2 months before most people (in the UK at least) even start [...]

Off to Cervinia…

Wednesday, 12. 3. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’m heading out to Cervinia this afternoon. The conditions are looking awesome. It’s been dumping on and off there since late October, the base is solid down to resort and keeps getting a nice powdery top-up. Looks like first snowboarding turns of the season should be good.
Snowjet have done a write up, [...]