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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 [...]

Serre Chevalier holiday next month

Sunday, 01. 13. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

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 [...]

The Stash, Avoriaz freestyle / freeride Burton run

Wednesday, 10. 24. 2007  –  Category: Video

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 [...]

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 [...]

Chamonix Valley

Friday, 03. 16. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Quick post to give you a heads up about a new site set up my an old mate of mine. Chamonix Valley.com is a comprehensive guide to Chamonix.
Sections worth your time if you’re heading to Cham’ include the Chamonix blog with regular snow reports from around the valley, (like this one from Brévent/Flégère), Chamonix [...]

Morzine, Avoriaz and the Portes du Soleil

Monday, 01. 15. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

I stayed in Morzine for 10 days over New Year and got most of my snowboarding in at Avoriaz. Here’s the trip report I’d been promising.
After an overnight stop in Geneva on December 28th, we got our transfer to Morzine first thing the following morning. We checked into our apartment and those of [...]

Boarderweek at Val Thorens

Wednesday, 12. 13. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

As the Alps start getting a bit more snow, Val Thorens kicks of their season proper this Saturday with Boarderweek.
Boarderweek sounds like Snowbombing in some respects… a combination of riding by day and live music and DJ’s by night.

Morzine freestyle video

Tuesday, 09. 26. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Am off to Morzine for 10 days over new year. Been looking around on YouTube and found this video.

Now, I’m more of a freeride kind of guy, so won’t be ripping it up like this dude. Cos, of course, I could if I wanted to. Honest guv.

Chamonix back country video

Wednesday, 06. 28. 2006  –  Category: Video

Just watched this video on YouTube… bunch of guys hitting the Chamonix back country for a day.

Chamonix

Sunday, 01. 8. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

Just came back from a week snowboarding in Chamonix.
Conditions were generally great. There was a massive dump after about 3 days, leaving fantastic powder for the remainders of our time there.