Snip Snip Boom

Who watched the videos yesterday?? did you enjoy.??  Well I can now explain the last one abit more. The reason I think no one does that tree run is there isnt a run off, just a drop! some pretty shallow overs fully vertical but that depends on where you end up and how far you go haha. I obviously went on for ages (untracked powder, who wouldnt) and ended up with a couple of drop offs. The video is of one about 12ft if it snowed recently im sure it would actually be rideable but as the piste bashers have been through alot its carved right out and no one wants to jump from that high onto flats. 

Anyway that was the first drop off, the second I never got a chance to film as I actually needed to climb out and drop! basically it was vertical for about 9ft and had a roll off at the bottom for a few more ft. I couldnt just slide down like the previous one as there were rocks and what not. So handily there was a tree/spruce growing just below me so I had to slide to that swing out like Tarzan and then just drop the 9 ft haha, Bit off when youre just hanging off a branch knowing the only was is down.

Annoyingly the pictures dont do the drop any justice but Ive tried to capture it as best as I can

 

The orange arrow is pointing at the top of the drop off where I was sitting and the purple is the tree branch I used to swing out of. Now you should be able to see thats quite far up into the trees...

this picture im now standing on the piste but you can see the gap in the trees where I came out of.  I dropped roughly 9ft down onto the snow (bottom of the trees) and slid on my ass the rest of the way down haha. Absolutely great fun! So I am definitely claim that tree run. cant wait to try it on a powder day, may be able to ride all the way out :P

On a side note, I succesfully cut my hair today,  It was abit of a state. Freaking hour it took! but that said genuinely wouldnt believe I did it myself, hurrah!

A Modern Myth

Fair play to the people that decided to do this..

 

whoever Kyle is, he has to live with this everytime he goes over on the lift until it snows haha. GUTTED! Also kudos to the effort in design, only one set of foot prints, clearly done it before :P

Anyway! today was the first time since I bought my new board at the end of freaking may that I got to ride it and it was amazing! was pretty weird to begin with not used to such a soft or responsive board, the new boots are great as are the bindings, so muxh padding taking the shocks out of jumps now too the point im throwing myself of stuff just to test how well it is working haha. All round its a glorious setup :D so check it out!

its going to be so much fun with all the snow due over the net two days, hurrah! time to get some tricks down methinks.

Right best get back to being bored on the bar, 4 hours and the only person I have served is myself...why is it open on a wednesday? everyone goes out?!!?

Rewind, Repeat

After last nights uninformative post I figured I should probably do it properly! So yesterday the Burton Park Jam Tour reached Avoriaz which was definitely worth a watch, pretty damn impressive some of the stuff people were pulling off,

That will be me before this season is out! heck before a month from now, snow permitting practice :P

Also did the boarder cross track too, great fun! think may have found my calling with that, Flew down it, cant wait to try it on my new board, will be able to go faster then haha. For those of you who that dont know what boardercross is its, in a nutshell, fast, twisting (imagine constant S shape) track, the proffesional ones however are usually steeper and involve a jump or two. Damn good fun though.

 

All the different levels are the track winding down, it also comes out to a jump onto an airbag too. So glad ive found that as once its up and running ill be hitting that for backflip practice :D cannot wait!

And finally my day was wrapped up with Ice Hockey, Go Morzine Penguins! (sadly we lost but hey ho, good match pulled a few goals back in the last round) and a night in the Cavern. At this very moment people are still recovering....think they need to man up abit. Anyway have a ganders at some pics of the Ice Hockey, the penguins are red just incase you didnt know as well as some other pics I took on my tour.

Open up your eyes

So today was a rest day, a much needed one at that so the entire day was spent watching the O'neill Evolution highlights (check out, http://www.oneill.com/evolution/videos.html) and the Nitro movie "what goes up must come down" as its sheer class :D

So yeah not alot to tell you really, its a boring one in regards to updates, though having spent the afternoon in the jacuzzi (great for the injury recovery! feel brand new!) looking up at the mountains I did have to question my sanity of going to uni....though that said wouldnt of met the great people I have so :P

Nonetheless I have picture for you, it is the view from the chalet however the actual focul point is just how low are the clouds?! the second floor here was level, if not above them.

All Around Me

went and checked out the swiss wall today, with a skier, who enjoys the flats, fucking annoying! they are pain! but that said only got stuck once for the many miles of it covered! at which point I stole his ski pole and "paddled" (the motion) my way across haha. works a treat, saves walking :P

So! the Swiss wall, for those that dont know its the crazy run into switzerland, now by crazy, its very steap and even the piste groomers dont attempt to clear it. A snowboarders nightmare, alright for me that my lift pass doesnt allow me to get back if I did go down so that wont be happening anytime soon :P


Tried to show how steap it is but put it this way, I didnt see the slope meet the bottom, just part of the run off!

 

All snow around that crafted section is apparently flat, look at the state of it, watched for 20 odd minutes, never saw  single boarder, wonder why!  

But enjoy some pics of Switzerland.

 

 

 

On a plus note my "holy shit check out that view whilst on a chair lift photography" is getting good if I do say so myself, this was on the run home from Avoriaz to Morzine, buses are for lazy people, snowboard home dammit :D

 

be getting that beast printed/framed when im back!

Rolling in the Deep

deep snow...I wish! thats tomorrow, today was just a little sprinkle, tomorrow is going to be a dump day! thank fook for that as im sick of the ice patches!

no real amazing pics taken today as it was practically a whiteout with the clouds but no real snow annoyingly but hey ho! bring on monday though when everyone has fucked off and I dont have to wait 20 odd minutes to catch a lift. A freaking hour it took today just to get across to where I wanted to be, Hadnt even strapped myself to my board in that time, annoying!

My other grievance is im now actually developing a hate for old/middle aged fat skiers. Mostly down to me racing (30mph plus) along the ice flat and  a fat middle aged skier looks at me, then cuts me up clips the front of my board and I face plant the ice. Pleased I was fucking not. took me 10 minutes just to get catch some breathe and see straight again, and to make sure I was actually alive and not imagining stuff etc. utter wanker!

Anyhow, anger aside, I have respect for these skiers who are currently using a half built chalet as a snow playground, they have built a run/jump up the center wall with cameras and fog lights filming it all, so far it looks pretty damn cool! kinda want to try and join them haha

other than that, not alot is going on so ill leave you with some pics of the last day or two:

 

 

 

 

 

I like it like that.

All of these post titles btw are songs, so up to you to figure out what they are :P

No idea if Ive mentioned this or not before but I cant be arsed to check. Ive found my favourite bar! The Tibetan aka Bhudda Bar, its awesome, snowboard movies constantly playing, looks like youre in Asia, shame its so expensive haha. So I mentioned Mont Chery and the trek it takes to get there. Look at the picture below and in the background is Les Gets, to get there you have to go up the mountain next to it, Pleney and ride down onto Les Gets,  you have to ride down that into the town, walk through town catch a bubble lift and you get dropped off half way up Mont Chery! A trek!

Les Gets town is pretty cool, instead of free buses they use pleasurebeach trains! whatever works I guess.

Now thats the dull stuff out of  the way, check out some of  Mont Chery

Annoyingly I need to go fix my board as it had a fight with some stairs and lost...

Shovelling in the Snow

So the videos I left my computer uploading crashed out so nothing got uploaded yesterday, which means Ive lost the challenge, which has pissed me off haha. But to account for the stupid failure here is a fair few pics. Sadly as of yesterday and today I have nothing exciting to share, over than THERES SO MUCH SNOW!! freaking tons of it not been this much in 10 years. Going to be an amazing season.

Although this has meant digging the drive everyday, 10 times in 5 days ive done it, today I didnt even get to ride due to removing all the ice :( but tomorrow! its my day off and there will be lots of awesome pictures!

Oh hell! Went to a Capita party (snowboard brand for those with no clue) presented by attack attack, was a raffle to win a free board and I was 1 freaking number out! but Susie (previous post) won it with no.92 I had 93, lucky girl! clearly chivalry doesnt pay off as we got the tickets on the door and she went through first...chivalry can now die, not bitter at all haha honest.

but for now, enjoy what some of the ones Ive taken over the last few days you have yet to see!

So the damn video has finally uploaded, nothing amazing yet but figured you may want to check out part of a run I did. Not had chance to edit it yet, so tilt your head :P

 

oh and my new sticker/moto for every sesh courtesy of my new favourite store.

Its this much, honest!

Its official, as official as the words of many return seasonnnaires is, there has been more snow here in the last week, than the entire of last season! Which is just abit epic :D has meant ive shovelled the drive, twice today..

Anyhow I can finally say ive been in real powder, off piste etc and im shit learning haha. Tiring but so much fun!  Snowdomes sure as hell do not prepare you for anything like this. not at all. 

still struggling to upload videos atm, and dinner service is up! so heres a pic of todays crew from my sesh Susie and Rory.

I wana crawl back in!

So yeah this is abit of a late one due to just finishing my shift on the bar, been there since 5pm and im up at 7am for the breakfast shift. ah well shit happens, least thats the last time itll happen! Its also a quick one as i refuse to lose the daily pic challenge so im staying up just to type this!

Remember all that talk of snow I muttered on about in my last post? well this is how much was there this morning, bare in mind that railing had nothing on it yesterday.

That made for such an amazing sehs today at times i was literally digging myself out of stuff just to get going again. That and I looked like a snow man once I got off the Lift, and to top it off it snowed all day till about 2 hours ago. so its going to be pretty sweet tomorrow! 

I do have videos and other interesting pictures to show you, but that will all come in some big post tomorrow. for now I need to sleep. Shattered is an understatement.

The weather Guru

So earlier I mentioned hail, then some aforementioned possibility of snow. well it is currently dumping it down, even if the lifts are closed again, urban rails it is!

Ride Another Day

The lifts, for the first time in no idea how long, even my boss cant remember when and hes lived her for 10 years, the lifts were closed today. ALL OF THEM! its been a sad day. A meter and half has settled up top and all I can do is look. More annoyingly, tourist office is adament itll happen again tomorrow. Even more annoyingly, its bloody gale force winds/pissing it down in Morzine thus there is no snow for me to be able to even have an urban sesh. 

However as I literally type, the skies have opened and the sound of hail is thundering through the chalet, give it an hour or two and itll be snow, tomorrow urban sesh may be on the cards! FUCK YES! 

I was going slightly insane getting cooped up inside with nowt to do, as a result shopping happened and as my gloves are utter diabolical and useless Ive forked out on a sexy new pair! Originally 120 euros got them for 65, bargain! that said im sure my bank wont be pleased I used my card but hey ho! They are the don, goretex and all that! ill never feel wind or rain again haha!

Check them out!

Oh got an Attack Attack sticker too (stickers stickers stickers!!!), I love that store! I will grace you with an image when I remember!

So yeah this post may not have been the most thrilling, but fuck all has happened so what can I do? 

Happily/worringly, the bar is open in the chalet and drinks are near to half price (dependant) for us staff and we each have a tab...that could be the best mistake thing ever haha.

Dont worry....abouta ting

Bob Marley is blasting through the chalet sound system, Its throwing it down with thick glorious white snow and im full of turkey. First time the chef cooked tonight being the official chalet season start an all and hoooolly shit! Im not leaving the food was THAT amazing! And the severe cleaning is over! life is just sweet right now. Just need a beer...or many.

Anyway lets put how much it its snowing into context, this is Morzine yesterday:

and this is Morzine around the same time today:

and it hasnt really stopped all day, just got abit smaller and then thicker and so on. So the mountains are going to be epic tomorrow, though word on the grapevine a majority of lifts are shut, like today, due to wind. As such a big fucking trek is in order as im not missing out on this!

Only one "downside" to the snow (not a downside I get to go out and play) is we have to shovel the drive! though more snow is probably thrown at each other than actually shovelled. hell whatever works :P

Granted, its definitely alot thicker now than it was 9am this morning but gives you an idea :P

Right, time to find that beer..