skiing
See mum, I really AM wearing a helmet!
New Listings Lab project gets it’s first customer
So this year I’ve been working on a new and really fun project. A joint venture between myself and my friends at All Mountain Performance, we have been creating a DVD with a difference. As part of AMP’s ski courses in Chamonix Mark offers clients video feedback of their skiing. During the course he films [...]
Cream Crackered
I’m been out skiing for a couple of days this weekend. It snowed towards the end of last week, so powder everywhere. Saturday was still cloudy on Grands Montets, but that means that fresh tracks are even more plentifully available than if the sun is shining. I found myself haring down a steep pitch somewhere [...]
Walking round, nutting Stuff
I was feeling the winter yesterday. As I sat at my desk rubbing my hands together to keep out the cold I realised suddenly that I was feeling a bit crap. Obviously that’s because I’ve been working far too much. I needed to unplug and go skiing, so that’s what I did this morning. It [...]
A full quiver
Another great day up on the mountain today. It’s getting silly now - fresh tracks all over Flegere all morning and then I was skiing with Mark and his intermediate course taking photos and shooting some video. Here’s the photoset
I was skiing on my new skis (yes, that’s ANOTHER new pair of skis. I now [...]
Skiing like an acrobat
I broke my skis today. Well, actually I just ripped the binding off, so I’m sure they can be fixed. I was skiing in Le Tour, off piste in the mist. I thought ‘ooh, I’d better cut out of this section before I hit the gully’ BANG! I hit the vertical wall of he gully [...]
epic
There’s a word skiers use to describe days like today. epic. It’s when the weather, the snow and timing conspires to make it the most perfect day on the mountain. Some epic days turn up when you’re not expecting it, and some you can tell are in the post and all you have to do [...]
Is the snow REALLY that good in the alps?
I’ve been asked this question a few times this week by friends in the UK and here on the continent. The answer is yes. It really is. It dumped for days and days, and now the sun has come out and the temperature’s dropped. It almost seems that there’s more snow now, before we’ve even [...]
