the mountains
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 [...]
The Vallee Blanche with the Chalet Girls
Had a beautiful day on the Vallee Blanche yesterday. The dangers of the run do get built up a bit at times, and yesterday was purposely not death-on-a-stick skiing. It was just myself and the Chalet girls from Chalet La Lune, doing a quiet, sunny, safe lap of the punter route. Obviously we took all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ah. The Stink of excellence
In a world gone tits up. You’ve just got to love those boys at Modern Toss.
Damn cold
Sunny skies have brought low temperatures and it’s brass monkeys out here. It takes a while to get used to the cold, to get your clothes right and change your living habits. Other problems come up too, like the locks on your car freezing up over night, getting snow and moisture in your car and [...]
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 [...]
We’re going in
The season has started in earnest now. Blessed with one of the best early snowfalls anyone can remember, there’s powder to be had and the lifts are opening. I’ve been up the mountain both days this weekend. Yesterday inadvisedly skiing with a bunch of snowboarding numb-skulls . As usual skiing with snowboarders means blindly launching [...]
