Hitting Kickers

An awesome week snowboarding in Serre Chevalier last week. Finally getting round to post about it. Here’s goes.

After a few large group trips, this was going to a small, hardcore, flat out snowboarding trip with just 3 of us in total.
Day one started at 3am in South London with taxi followed by bus […]

At the Metro Ski & Snowboard show last year I walked past several stands with novelty exercise equipment, tagged up for hundreds of pounds with some new spin on getting you ready for your ski or snowboard season without having to bust a gut. Seriously, just get yourself down the gym and stop taking […]

Just saw this post up on Chamonix.eu.com listing - ahem - “10 great reasons not to become a snowboarder”.
Seeing as that site is run by an old mate of mine I thought I’d entertain a little post in response. Seems all good to me.
1. You will probably die.
Get busy living, or get busy dying. […]

I’m going to Serre Chevalier for a week in early February, having booked up this week. I’m going with two friends who started snowboarding at the same time as me more or less, and who I’ve snowboarded more with than anyone else. This time we’re leaving our girlfriends at home, and planning on […]

Snowboarding in England only happens on dry slopes and giant indoor fridges these days, right? Err, no aparently. On one of the Flow bindings posts here, Bazx6r left the following comment:
Dude, we went up to Yad Moss on saturday, 2 hour drive to get there but it was worth it, the lift wasn’t running […]

Now Christmas is done and New Year is on its way, time for some resolutions:

1. Get fit for snowboarding
I really need get down the gym more. Last 2 trips I was hanging by the third day. I know I’ll get more out of my time on the hill if I’m in better […]

Quick post to plug a new website covering the best of Europe’s snow parks, Snow Park Guide.com
Carina from SPG…
We have recently launched our new Snowparkguide.com Web site with tons of
interesting stuff about European’s most important and renowned terrain parks.
Besides there are many new features like the user profile function and the pic
of the week contest […]

I’ve just had the pleasure of back-to-back weekend trips snowboarding in Cervinia.
Cervinia shares a ski area with Zermatt, which has a glacier that’s open for skiing all year round, so you’re guaranteed some snow even early season. Fortunately early season this year is of epic proportions in terms of snow right across the Alps. […]

…well not me exactly, I kind of neutral on Flow’s and the eternal debate if that’s possible.
I’ve been looking through some of the keywords people are using in search engines to find this site, and found a few comical ones:
“I hate Flow bindings” - what about those that love Flow bindings?
“how to get fit […]

Living in London, you always look to mainland Europe when thinking about your next snowboarding trip. I’d been meaning to post this photo taken at Glencoe in Scotland earlier this year by the guys at Highland Instinct. What a cracking sight.

Added: just watched this cracking video of some lads hitting up Scottish backcountry…

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I was pinged today with this video filmed at Pembrey Dry Slope.

Good to see UK snowboarders going to the effort. You can find this slope here:

Pembrey Country Park, Nr Llanelli, Dyfed, SA16 0EJ
Thanks Jimi! He’s also got the word out to Gavin at Afterbang.
More on Pembrey and Jimi’s page on Youtube for future vids.

A new, organic freestyle / freeride run is being installed at Avoriaz for the new season, scheduled for Jan 08. The Stash at Avoriaz will feature a shedload of natural hits, rails and gaps and can be reached via the Prolays 6-pack chairlift.
There’s a pdf map of the course up on the Rude Chalets […]

This is a guest post from Paul at Alltracks Academy, who provide Ski & Snowboard Instructor Courses in Whistler.
Like many snowboarders & skiers, I began touring for one simple reason – to hunt powder. Quite frankly, the thought of walking up steep mountains just didn’t seem that sensible when you have gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts, […]

Well, its been a long time since posting was a regular occurrence round here, and hopefully that’s all about to change.
So what’s to come over the coming weeks and months?

I have been thinking more and more about the coming season and future posts. I still haven’t written up my Val Thorens trip from April, […]

New to my Bloglines feed subscription list is WildSnow.com. I love the site already having only read a few posts.
Mainly I love it cos of the unashamed SEO (search engine optimisation) thrown at it (SEO is my day job). Stuff like “Lou Dawson’s Backcountry Skiing Weblog Blog and Website” is brilliant SEO overkill.

I […]