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Off to Cervinia…

Wednesday, 12. 3. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’m heading out to Cervinia this afternoon. The conditions are looking awesome. It’s been dumping on and off there since late October, the base is solid down to resort and keeps getting a nice powdery top-up. Looks like first snowboarding turns of the season should be good.
Snowjet have done a write up, [...]

ski.co.uk and snowboard.co.uk sold for £100k

Friday, 11. 28. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

Just spotted via Twitter (follow me here), ski.co.uk and snowboard.co.uk have just sold at auction for quite hefty sums.
snowboard.co.uk fetched £20,000 and ski.co.uk reached a mighty £80,000.
Compared with some other major .co.uk domain purchases in the last 18 months these might be a couple of bargains. cruises.co.uk sold for £560k in February 08, smashing the [...]

Snowboarding round-up

Thursday, 11. 6. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

A few things to catch up on here, so here goes:
Snowboarding trips booked
Had a good week last week - I booked my first two trips of the season. Firstly the annual early season pilgrimage to Cervinia for 4 days in early December. Secondly a 9 day stay in Montgenevre over New Year. Going [...]

Johno Verity & Eric Themel avalanche video

Thursday, 10. 23. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Check out this dramatic footage of Johno Verity and Eric Themel, who got caught in an avalanche whilst filming in Mount Cook, New Zealand.

Dramatic stuff, and a timely reminder as the Northern Hemisphere season approaches that its not all just fun and games out on the white stuff.

Win tickets for the Metro Ski & Snowboard Show

Tuesday, 10. 21. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

Owing to a balls up - I left the tickets at home - I can’t send them out today, so have to scrap this. Drop me a line via the contact form if you’re able to pick up 2 tickets from South London tomorrow and you can have them free.
The Metro Ski & Snowboard Show [...]

AKA Snowskate Sweet Dreams video

Friday, 10. 10. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Fresh from youtube, uploaded today. A slice of snowboarding in England - a country with no real snow and few hills. Enjoy.
Part 1: Part 1 with Jamie Nicholls and Wayne Taylor (AKA Snowskate)

Part 2: Featuring Boo and Matt Macwhirter

Part 3: Featuring Friends of AKA (Ben Wall, Joe Tyler, Tyler Harding, Rick [...]

Metro Ski & Snowboard Show 2008

Wednesday, 10. 1. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

The season is on its way alright. The Metro Ski & Snowboard show kicks off in about 3 weeks time. The show runs from 22nd to 26th October at Olympia, London (not Earls Court as I previously stated).

Always a good way to build the stoke…

check out new gear by most of the [...]

Snowboard luggage airline costs

Tuesday, 09. 30. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

About this time last year I posted up a link to a piece of research into the costs charged by each of the major airlines flying from the UK to ski airports in Europe for checking in your skis or snowboard.
Well, APH have updated their research and things have changed! RyanAir now costs a [...]

Snowboard season approaching

Friday, 09. 19. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

…the Whitelines magazine Friday Fix is back for the 2008-09 ski snowboard season.

Photos like this - even on a fairly sunny September afternoon - do get me excited about the coming season.
Got to get some trips planned and booked.

Sauna ski lift

Tuesday, 09. 2. 2008  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

This must get a bit sweaty when you’re wearing your full winter gear…

Travel Weekly has posted images of a gondola/bubble lift done out as a sauna, and asks the question: which country is this in?

Serre Chevalier snowboarding holiday

Sunday, 02. 17. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

An awesome week snowboarding in Serre Chevalier last week. Finally getting round to post about it. Here goes.

After a few large group trips, this was going to a small, hardcore, flat out snowboarding trip with just 3 of us in total.
Day one started at 3am in South London with taxi followed by bus [...]

Comical snowboard exercise gadget - iJoy Board

Friday, 01. 25. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

At the Metro Ski & Snowboard show last year I walked past several stands with novelty exercise equipment, tagged up for hundreds of pounds with some new spin on getting you ready for your ski or snowboard season without having to bust a gut. Seriously, just get yourself down the gym and stop taking [...]

10 great reasons to be a snowboarder

Wednesday, 01. 23. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

Just saw this post up on Chamonix.eu.com listing - ahem - “10 great reasons not to become a snowboarder”.
Seeing as that site is run by an old mate of mine I thought I’d entertain a little post in response. Seems all good to me.
1. You will probably die.
Get busy living, or get busy dying. [...]

Serre Chevalier holiday next month

Sunday, 01. 13. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’m going to Serre Chevalier for a week in early February, having booked up this week. I’m going with two friends who started snowboarding at the same time as me more or less, and who I’ve snowboarded more with than anyone else. This time we’re leaving our girlfriends at home, and planning on [...]

Yad Moss: snowboarding in England

Wednesday, 01. 9. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

Snowboarding in England only happens on dry slopes and giant indoor fridges these days, right? Err, no aparently. On one of the Flow bindings posts here, Bazx6r left the following comment:
Dude, we went up to Yad Moss on saturday, 2 hour drive to get there but it was worth it, the lift wasn’t running [...]