Morzine Day 2: Better
A couple of beers and a few glasses of wine… don’t expect too much Today was much better. Easyjet worked, for a start. We arrived at Geneva, on time, hopeful for some afternoon shredding. Slight delay as people were gathered for the transfer. Then we were off. Transfer was smooth, drop our stuff off at [...]
Morzine Day 1: False Start
4:15pm, Ciara and I arrived at the airport, full of beans, stoked. Flight Cancelled. Lame. Seriously gutted. Technical fault or something, no other flights leaving for Geneva today. Get on the web, any connections to get there? None. The best chance was a BA flight to Heathrow and then on to Geneva. 25 minutes between [...]
There May Be A Brief Intermission…
Just putting a post out there to let you know that the site’s about to undergo some minor back-end changes. If it disappears at all(!), we’ll back it out and be right back with you. And if it goes smoothly, just pretend you never saw this, yeah? Back soon… Oh, and if anyone has experience [...]
Riding Footage From The 2008/2009 Season
I keep leaving it later and later, but, I have at least stuck to my principle of editing the footage from one season before snowboarding the season after. I’m talking about the video I took last year in Morzine. Over the last week and a half I’ve been streaming it all, and then did a [...]
Bike Ride, Hamsterley Forest
I went for a ride yesterday with some friends at Hamsterley Forest. As well as wanting to be fit for snowboarding, I’ve started to train for a 3-day ride later this year: the coast to coast. I think we ended up doing around 12/13 miles, all off-road. There were some pretty nice hills in there [...]
Absinthe Flipside Episodes: Neverland
I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I enjoy documentary-style programs, and the Absinthe Flipside shows are an excellent example. Well, Whitelines has a bunch of episodes for their recent production: Neverland. I’m not sure if that’s the full collection yet, but what’s there is definitely worth watching, if you like this type of thing. I [...]
New Base Layer: Under Armour ColdGear
I’ve got a new base layer to try out in Morzine – it’s the Under Armour ColdGear. For anyone new to snowboarding and/or not familiar with the benefits of wearing decent layers – it’s important. For the last few seasons I’ve been wearing Icebreaker base layers, made from merino wool. I’ve always been impressed with [...]
What Do You Look For In A Snowboard Movie?
I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I watch a snowboard movie I end up thinking same old, same old. Each season, a whole load of new films come out, and I think it’s fair comment that a lot of them are similar to those of the year before… To a certain degree, I’d [...]
