Sport
Speed Riding
So there’s a new death sport in town this year. Speed Riding (aka Speed Flying). It’s been around for a while, but it’s starting to get more followers this year, and one of those speed riders happens to be my mate Gus. He’s pretty nails, old Gus. He’s a very experienced parapente pilot & doesn’t [...]
Easter
I’ve never really got the whole Easter thing. I guess our family never really made a big deal of it, so since leaving full time education several years ago whenEaster simply means a bit of a holiday, I’m always vaguely surprised when a 4 day holiday comes around every year.
This year was brilliant, though. The [...]
Competition day in Chamonix
Wednesday was a big day in Chamonix. Starting early on Brevant was the 3rd race in the Helly Hanson Winter Ride competition organised by Evolution 2. Somehow I found myself entered as a competitor, along with Fred and Mark. We met at the bottom of the Brevant bubble lift to sign in at 8:30 am. [...]
Skiing with world champions
I’m back at work today after a marathon 5 days in a row of proper skiing with my friend Phil. Starting off with a full day’s off piste on fat skis in good powder on Wednesday, we then toured up to the Argentiere hut on Thursday to get a bit of experience on skins. Friday [...]
The Nissan Outdoor Games Extreme Film winner
A few weeks ago a Nissan promotional team came to town and set up some big-screen TV’s in the square where they showcased the entries to the Nissan Outdoor Games Extreme film competition. The film competition features 5 teams composed of kayakers, mountain-bikers, rock climbers paragliders, skiers and BASE jumpers. Based on an original concept, [...]
Living in my ski gear
The last 2 days I are mostly been wearing ski gear. Or been asleep. I’ve been donning the banana yellow ski trousers and heading up the mountain first thing in the morning since Phil arrived and not needing to get changed till I go to bed. I fully intend to don them again tomorrow (though [...]
New All Mountain Performance video
Now the pooter’s fixed I spent the day making the film I was trying to make on Sunday. It’s a much improved version of the All Mountain Performance promotional video. So much better. the editing, the sound, everything. It’s visually better too, with some newly learned techie tricks, but more importantly it has a better [...]
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 [...]
