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New Year Resolutions for Snowboarding

Friday, 12. 28. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

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 [...]

Snow park guide

Thursday, 12. 20. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

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 Europe’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 [...]

Cervinia weekends - first turns of the season

Thursday, 12. 13. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

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. [...]

Hip flask pouch for your bindings

Wednesday, 11. 7. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Put your hand up if you like a little drink on the hill every now and then?
Its been known amongst my usual snowboarding group to bring out a hip flask full of Laphroaig, and dish out hits everytime someone stacks it hard or anytime someone stomped a run or kicker.
Cheers!
Only problem is the ole hip [...]

“I hate Flow bindings”

Wednesday, 11. 7. 2007  –  Category: Site news, Snowboarding

…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 for [...]

Snowboarding in Scotland

Tuesday, 11. 6. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

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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Following [...]

Pembrey Dry Slope Snowboarding Video

Wednesday, 10. 31. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

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

Good to see UK snowboarders going to the effort.

Cervinia opens for the season

Saturday, 10. 27. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

The 2007/2008 ski season has started at Cervinia in northern Italy. Acording to the Cervinia website, the season runs from 27th Oct (today) until 27th April 2008.
It’s a cracking little resort that borders Zermatt and is famous for its views of the Matterhorn. With the glacier at Zermatt, a joint lift pass, and [...]

Friday Fix is back

Friday, 09. 7. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

The Friday Fix is back, which can mean only one thing… the snowboarding season is just around the corner. Bring it on.

Whistler backcountry tour

Monday, 09. 3. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

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, [...]

Plans for winter season 07/08

Sunday, 09. 2. 2007  –  Category: Site news, Snowboarding

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, [...]

Wild Snow backcountry blog

Thursday, 03. 29. 2007  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

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 [...]

Val Thorens weather and webcams

Wednesday, 03. 28. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Val Thorens is booked! So with the final trip of the season lined up, I’m checking the weather forecasts, snow reports and web cams daily now and hoping the conditions are going to hold.

Val Thorens late season trip

Saturday, 03. 24. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’ve decided to go to Val Thorens for what will be my final snowboarding jaunt this season. Planning a week from the Easter weekend. Have been once before, so have an idea roughly where I want to stay. This map has been really useful.
Val Thorens town map
The plan is to stay [...]

Les Arcs weekend break

Sunday, 03. 18. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Well, technically not a full weekend, but have just come back from a day on the slopes at Les Arcs.
After months of hassle with lastminute.com trying to sort the tickets out, we booked onto a Eurostar from London to Bourg Saint Maurice leaving on Friday evening arriving 6:30am Saturday, before heading back to London at [...]