Mountain High

Why are you reading this?! you should be watching the Xgames! go here and watch dammit. http://www.freestyletv.net/xgames/livestream-x-games-aspen-2012/

Not like I have anything to share I spent the day repairing/servicing my boards as it was sunny and we all know I dont have a high vis lense to see anything so I took a rest day. Basically watched films all day haha. Full recharged ready to kick some ass tomorrow. Oh repaired my helmet too, so one less thing to buy, hurrah!

For the brief moments I was outside in the sun I did see this.

Its a hot air balloon incase you cant tell. Must be amazing to be in that on a today like today. Just abit jealous! anyway the xgames! go! watch now.!

I should be so lucky

just a quickie as I want to go out! My helmet is fooked, tried removing the buckle and chin strap and it just all fell to pieces so I will be buying a new one on top of new goggles! becoming a damn costly month this, only wanted to buy bindings!! least I have my new goggles lined up, arrive in attack attack on friday so fingers crossed its still cloudy tomorrow haha, so far so lucky...though I use that loosely as my luck had blatantly gone to pot with my goggles and helmet dying on me.

Anyhow my lovely shiny new board is no longer looking so new, still shiny though! it took a battering on a road today (Mont Chery has a run that requires you to go over a road, its basically someones driveway) but that said I was flying and there was bugger all snow on the road resulting in some horrid noises and battle scars. So a repair job is in order in the morning, whats more annoying is it was only waxed last night and Ive got to do it again now!

Oh hell yeah to top it off on the lift home, I apologise to skiers now, nothing against you in the slightest. However, there was a large group of old overweight snobby ass skiers blocking the run off the lift resulting in a skier on the chair before me plowing into a few of them, sending them tumbling like bowling pins. So which that action going on infront I had to try and squeeze round but a kid skiing across the lift line to his dad cut up our chair so everyone tried to stop and I had nowhere to go meaning I was scooped back up on the chair and shoved across till I was able to jump off. Once I was free of the chair the kid was back and I slid out on my ass so I didnt hit him and some poxy ass skier, fitting the same stereotype previously mentioned had the audacity after seeing everything that just happened, to shove his poles in my back moaning how I was in the way and what a stupid place to stop. At this point I had enough so in a nutshell I "politely" told him where he could shove those poles after stabbing me in the back with them, told him to open his eyes and look around at the carnage of people infront of him. As that little spat ended the poor guy that had previously plowed into the skiers was getting full on shouted at by those he took out and the rest of that delightful group. So they also got a mouthful off me about how they are blocking the lift line and that they bloody well deserved it. Turns out they didnt like that and got on there merry way shouting something about youth today ... dictionary definition of C*** twat. Least the guy who took them out was greatful of colourful speech. All about making friends eh :P 

anyway im off out hoping my luck will change so I can win a snowboard. fingers crossed!

That takes the biscuit

Aside from having to get either  a new lense/goggles boh work out just as expensive I know also need to get a new helmet as the chin strap clip has broke. Can I get a replacement? no! can I even remove said knackered clip and add a different type? no! as the blasted thing is permanatly attached to the helmet and cannot be removed, me trying resulted in ripping it from the helmet. So I need new goggles and a new helmet as mine have simultaniously given up on life. fucking wonderful as I can only afford one. So yes I am annoyed to say the least....therefore picture wise is the odds and sods I took today. enjoy :)

Throw your hands to the sky

Been on a hunt for a replacement lense for my goggles and no such luck, no way am I paying or waiting for one from America...screw that. Therefore I guess ill have to buy a new pair tomorrow. what a bitch, so much for trying to save.....Even worse was that it was sunny at times today so alot of hiding in the shadows took place just so I could see!

Anyway! the rain has succesfully destroyed all the snow from the last dump so the conditions are back to how they were, icy and hard, definitely not fun, we needed more snow and its already gone. Thankfully more is coming throughout the week!

However that said the conditions are wierd in general, some runs were like it had just snowed others were like it hadnt snowed for weeks..bizzare. Although that did make for some fun runs on Mont Chery, quiet as always and plenty of untouched snow! Even started my favourite tree run of again as the snowfall did cover it up. Gotta love making the first line :D

Aside from this decided its time I tried out my new board in the park, by that I mean the odd kicker here and there as im still abismal...sigh. Anyway I digress, so never hit a kicker with it before and my favourite kicker in Mont Chery has been made into a green, wtf I thought, get nothing off that, oh how I was wrong! I think I actually flew for abit, that and I had a brief moment of just feeling like I was stalling/Neither going forward or dropping, then I came flying back down onto the piste! was awesome haha so if im pulling off that length of airtime of a little green god knows whats gonna happen when I hit the bigger jumps. Going to be interesting :P

Right, Im ending this post here with a couple of random pics as Im tired. Enjoy.

 

 

 

Oh Damn

My goggle lense has snuffed it. Tried cleaning all the watermarks and fingerpints off with the provided cloth and it took all the coating off. annoying! that said after chatting to some of the stores here whilst on the hunt for a new lense, im not the only one its happened too. Goggle destroying conditions are about :( worse still it was my sunny lense and guess what, its going to be sunny for a while...bugger.

So am currently stuck between buying a new lenses from america...as I cant find them anywhere else or forking out any money I had for new salopets on a new pair here...screwed and annoyed is an understatement. I need new salopets but then I also need to see....what an arse. Any suggestions?

Anyway as promised, the other video snapshots (so the quality is terrible) of the drop off I was doing yesterday..

 

The size is put into perspective now unlike the previous pictures. Go big or go home was my thinking behind this as its the first actual drop off ive done! needless to say I never landed it and by looking at that picture I can see why! no style, no balance, no nothing other than impending fail...ah well lesson learnt. Joys for videos as now I know what I did wrong.

As I said I never landed it, thus all attempts concluded like this...

 

Granted that is after ive flipped over a few times haha, maybe ill share the video sooner rather than later..

Do you see what I see?

absolutely fuck all I hear you say, me too! this is what I mean by a whiteout, this was this morning but it did clear up abit however this was all I could see for a while.

 

The amount of people shouting for their mates asking where thay were was crazy. Did kinda come out of nowhere though but hey ho was all good fun, meant there was plenty of pow to go play in!

So as it was a pow day it meant you could do all manner of daft stuff and land in cotton wool which is brilliant! so we found a 6ft+ drop off (heck of alot higher than me so...) and had some fun! Was amusing to hear the amount of people cheering for you to do it or even just doing it..was good fun! soo heres me hitting the drop off..

 

Needless to say I never actually succesfully landed them :P but the videos of this are being saved for a later date. Tomorrow ill show you the rest ive got but for now its beer time, tooodles!

Is it a bird, is it a plane...

The snow did not come yesterday...well tell a lie it did for about 6 minutes. However, it has come today!! which also meant it was the complete and utter whiteout thus no snowboarding today, all we did was sit and look out the window (had fuck all else to do) anticipating the glory that will be all the fresh pow pow tomorrow. Sooo I shall instead inform you of what we got up to last night...the christmas tree has finally been removed. About time, it had past it plus vacuuming the pine needles everyday was more effort than it was worth.

So the pineless bastard met its end out of the window. As we were sure as hell not gonna carry it through the chalet and clean up afterwards. Handily there is a masive sliding window up stairs so a good hefty swing sent it flying out the window to the balcolny below :D

 

The very window it met its end.

and its final resting place, interestingly it landed very neatly, certainly wasnt a consideration but hey ho least its out of the way for the remainder of the season :D

finally this is  tribute video to Sarah Burke someone has made, definitely worth checking out to show your respects http://vimeo.com/35364829

Ski in Peace.