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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, [...]

ski.co.uk and snowboard.co.uk sold for £100k

Friday, 11. 28. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

Just spotted via Twitter (follow me here), ski.co.uk and snowboard.co.uk have just sold at auction for quite hefty sums.
snowboard.co.uk fetched £20,000 and ski.co.uk reached a mighty £80,000.
Compared with some other major .co.uk domain purchases in the last 18 months these might be a couple of bargains. cruises.co.uk sold for £560k in February 08, smashing the [...]

Snowboarding round-up

Thursday, 11. 6. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

A few things to catch up on here, so here goes:
Snowboarding trips booked
Had a good week last week - I booked my first two trips of the season. Firstly the annual early season pilgrimage to Cervinia for 4 days in early December. Secondly a 9 day stay in Montgenevre over New Year. Going [...]

Johno Verity & Eric Themel avalanche video

Thursday, 10. 23. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Check out this dramatic footage of Johno Verity and Eric Themel, who got caught in an avalanche whilst filming in Mount Cook, New Zealand.

Dramatic stuff, and a timely reminder as the Northern Hemisphere season approaches that its not all just fun and games out on the white stuff.

Win tickets for the Metro Ski & Snowboard Show

Tuesday, 10. 21. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

Owing to a balls up - I left the tickets at home - I can’t send them out today, so have to scrap this. Drop me a line via the contact form if you’re able to pick up 2 tickets from South London tomorrow and you can have them free.
The Metro Ski & Snowboard Show [...]

AKA Snowskate Sweet Dreams video

Friday, 10. 10. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Fresh from youtube, uploaded today. A slice of snowboarding in England - a country with no real snow and few hills. Enjoy.
Part 1: Part 1 with Jamie Nicholls and Wayne Taylor (AKA Snowskate)

Part 2: Featuring Boo and Matt Macwhirter

Part 3: Featuring Friends of AKA (Ben Wall, Joe Tyler, Tyler Harding, Rick [...]

Metro Ski & Snowboard Show 2008

Wednesday, 10. 1. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

The season is on its way alright. The Metro Ski & Snowboard show kicks off in about 3 weeks time. The show runs from 22nd to 26th October at Olympia, London (not Earls Court as I previously stated).

Always a good way to build the stoke…

check out new gear by most of the [...]

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 [...]

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.

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?

Serre Chevalier snowboarding holiday

Sunday, 02. 17. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

An awesome week snowboarding in Serre Chevalier last week. Finally getting round to post about it. Here 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 [...]