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| Bout to Drop in on a Skate Banana. |
Today is offically the my first downday that I have had in Verbier this season. Finally after another week of mayhem, ie. some sweeeet days up the hill with the boys (and girls) generally followed by some crazy nights in town, including one particularly impresive apres ski perfomance. A much needed rest up, and also as it is -11 in town today its too cold for snowboarding anyway. Instead, today I have got a few things done like help out one of the boys im staying with, Ian sort out some winter tyres for his car and equally importantly, try and work out a bit of a comptition scheldule for Jan/Feb. All going well, I will be registered for some FWQ comps in France, Austria, Switzerland and mabey even get out to Jasna in Slovakia before heading back to NZ in mid feb. Looking foward to the roadtrips, goodtimes, new mountains and catching up with some of the competition crowd. Can't wait!
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| Sending it. Yeeooow...! |
When I first got back from France last week I was delighted to find that all the rain we had been having as I left, had provided a nicely topped up layer of snow up the hill above about 2000m. As we are still waiting for the full lift system to open up, Ian, Vinny, myself and a bunch of the local boys spent a couple of days sessioning a few of the cliffs that are close by to verbier and ended up with one or two sweet early season snaps. In last few days, since the snow is getting a bit tracked out and stale, we have started to hike out a bit further a field to find some powder.
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| Steep and deep! |
Theres a bit more snow on the way, so hoping to catch some more freshies, and mabey take some more photos before christmas week when I'm off to the UK. The immediate plan however is to enjoy the best of verbiers early season nightlife tonight (its awsome!), then drag myself out of bed in the morning and go riding again.
Boom.
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| Yeaaah Vinny... flex |
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| Sweet line except for the shark I found that chomped my brand new board. |
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Hiking to score the score the first lines of the season down Mont Gélé with Martin and Matt Buddy.
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