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Weekend at the Cairngorms :)

I've just got back from a great easter weekend in the highlands and two brilliant days 'boarding at the Cairngorms ( http://cairngormmountain.co.uk/ ).
On Saturday, I took my niece snowboarding which was much fun. Visibility was a bit hit and miss, but snow conditions were excellent, and, it stayed fairly quiet which was handy as queues for the funicular and the easier T-bars remained pretty short.
We had a good fun day riding powder, jumping shrubbery, and we even venturing down the ciste gully!



Sunday was immense. Although it started cloudy, and a second 6am start took it's toll on my boarding in the morning, after refuelling and the sun coming out at lunch I had as good an afternoons boarding as I've had anywhere, ever. There was powder all over! I had an awesome top to bottom powder run. Truly incredible! I must have got about 20 runs in in the afternoon, flying between the button lifts.



It was good to catch up with Ally ( http://twitter.com/Allyaec ) and Dave ( http://twitter.com/storey247 ) too who where there for their first experience of real snow. I think it's safe to say they had a good time and will be back for more in the not too distant future :-)

 

Scottish Road/Boarding trip

Well, I sit here both tired, but very excited. After work tomorrow, I hit the road north in my new car, in search of some snowboarding fun in Scotland.

Never since I took up boarding have I known all the Scottish resorts to be open and covered in snow, so I'm taking advantage by taking a long weekend up there.

I'm heading up err tonight, staying over near the Glencoe resort (http://www.glencoemountain.co.uk/), going there to board on Friday, heading up towards the Nevis range (http://www.nevisrange.co.uk/) on Friday evening, and boarding there on Saturday. I'll then be heading up to my brothers, taking in either the Lecht (http://www.lecht.co.uk/) or Cairngorms (http://www.cairngormmountain.co.uk/) on Sunday, and then coming back on Monday..... via Glenshee (http://www.ski-glenshee.co.uk/)!!

It's going to be awesome.... so long as I don't get stuck in some snow-drift somewhere! I've bought a new shovel just in case!

I'll post some pics from my travels via twitter. http://twitter.com/mayb2moro

I'm mostly packed up, so I'd better get myself to bed - gonna be a long day tomorrow!!  
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Innsbruck!

I spent 8 days (plus some more) in Innsbruck over new year 09/10. All in all it was pretty good. The variety of ski resorts available is excellent with 9 to choose from. Whilst the local resorts (Nordkette and Patscherkofel) are really pretty small and probably only worth a visit if you want a real easy day, there are a number of other resorts easily accessable by bus.

Aximer Lizum and the Stubaier Glacier were the pick of the ones we visited. Aximer Lizum having smoe astonishing panoramic views and Subaier Glacier for it's sheer boardable size and powder. But Schlick 2000 gave us good fun for a day (and what a cool name!) and had a real nice party atmosphere early on on new years eve.
Kutai was good too, but a long long bus ride.

We stayed in the Innsbruck youth hostel, which was pretty much everything you'd expect from a youth hostel. It was clean and friendly, but, at times noisy and lacking the comforts of a hotel room and the privacy.

Away from the boarding, we found a brilliant bar called Theresienbräu which brewed it's own beer, and sold it on tap, in bottles, and even, in kegs (that you could order to your table!). Yes, we had a few beers in here! (http://www.brauwirtshaus.at/)

We also had a good few Guinness' in the irish bar, mostly drowning our sorrows at our travel delays, but also admiring the staff and the tunes.

New years eve we spent in the heart of Innsbruck being entertained by Chevy 57 ( http://www.chevy57.at/chevy57/ ) who played a whole load of classic rock 'n' roll tunes, and some Abba (queue crazy dancing man). It was a good, lively, and fun atmosphere. The surrounding streets were a bit crazy though with people just randomly setting fireworks off all over the place!

The journey home was a nightmare. Ironically having our flight cancelled twice because of snow in the UK, and then a major car window disaster when we finally got back on UK soil! Still, I'll look back at the holiday with fond memories, and, will look to go back to Innsbruck at some point soon. It was good. Rather like Chamonix, but with more choice, lower prices, and no french people :-P

Here's some pictures:

 
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Jackson Hole Days 13,14: Return to Form, Hiking, Drop-Offs and the Lift Challenge!

The last two days at Jackson Hole resort were just outstanding.

On day 13 we had yet another morning of constant snowfall, and hence amazing conditions on most of the mountain. This is honestly - on the whole - the best conditions I have ever had for a boarding holiday.

In the afternoon, the skies even cleared. We took our second hike up "Headwall". Bloody hard work all this hiking! But you know, this back country-lark takes some dedication ;-)

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We also got a nice clear run from the summit of the tram (although, we picked the wrong route at the bottom and ended up in a nasty narrow gully (Cheyenne Gully) which was still quite cack and icy and involved a walk out as the two routes out veered up hill and no more than a person wide.
We also had a look at the famed Corbets Couloir on the way down. This is an extreme run that the resort is famous for. It's basically a 10ft drop off a chute in a cliff face (and that's no exaggeration). Just looking at it nearly made me poo my pants. Incredibly scary for even the most expert of skier, and I honestly think, that an attempt at it on a snowboard would have only one result (death!).

There will be some photo's of it appearing soon, along with all the others.

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In the evening we went for a nice meal in one of the hotels in town, and then a couple of drinks in their bar (The Silver Dollar Bar).

Day 14 was the last day on the slopes :-(. But we really made the most of it. Conditions were again amazing, with yet more snow falling. We had a plan to hit all the lifts (10 in total) - and to attempt to complete this by lunchtime. We could have done it. There was only the tram left by 12pm, but we decided to stop to miss the lunchtime rush in the restaurants.

This is the approximate route we took (which will make no sense unless you know JH, or take a look at the piste map ( http://www.jacksonhole.com/info/mtn.maps.asp )

Up Teewinot Quad Chair
Up Apres Vous Quad Chair.
Down Werner and Lower Werner runs
Up Eagles Rest Chair
Up Sweet Water Triple Chair
Up Casper Chair
Down Liftline, Blacktail and Sundance runs
Up the Bridger Gondola
Down Gros Ventre and Ahmphitheatre runs
Up Thunder Chair
Down Laramie Bowl
Up Sublette Chair
Down Dog Face, Laramie Bowl, Rawlins Bowl and Way Home
Up Moose Creek Quad Chair
Up Union Pass Chair
Down U P Connection to the Mangy Moose for lunch (all chairs completed!)
LUNCH!
Up "Big Red" Tram
Down Rendezvous Bowl, Dog Face, Pepis Run, Alta Chutes (Double black and BIG mistake lol!),
Laramie Bowl, Rawlins Bowl
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!



This was actually a pretty cool way to get a lot of time on the hill on the last days and fully explore the mountain.

Following this we went to a little drop off/jump that we had found and did a bit of thrill seeking and videography! It's quite a rush dropping off the end of something and not being able to see where you are going to land! You get some serious speed up too! Hopefully, some good pictures will come out of it that I can really show off :-)

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After this we did our final couple of runs and wound up the holiday. Did a final bit of shopping including the purchase of the ultimate bargain a $9 blow-up tram - $70 for a replica tram set seemed a bit much (though it was cool!).

Had a mini party in the room on the evening to finish off the rum, Jim, and beer, before a certain bathroom disaster. Haha Andy!

So that pretty much is it. All that was left was the monster journey back, which actually, wasn't really all that bad thanks to an iPhone full of entertainment. I will post a bit of a round up tomorrow evening!  
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Jackson Blog Days 11,12 : Back in White!

After a few days of no snow, lots of sun, slush, and ice, the snow has returned in full force. From Wednesday evening all through Thursday and into Friday morning, the snow was none-stop leading to a return to the powdery conditions of last week. Top banana. Even though I don't like bananas.

Highlight of the last couple of days still might be my brothers gondola faux-pas... It cetainly ain't my boarding as it's been poop!

Everything is hurting right now, but there's still two great days to be had before I head back on the monster journey back to the UK, so I will just have to keep pumping the painkillers until then!

Went to the ice hockey again last night to see the Moose play a NHL all stars alumni team. Hadn't heard of any of the players, buy it was a great game. Moose narrowly losing out 6 to 5.

Laters taters x

 
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Jackson Blog days 8,9,10 : changing conditions!

Can't really be bothered to write much! Very tired!

Conditions this week have changed somewhat. It's really warmed up this week which has led to slushy and icy conditions. In fact today really has not been pleasant.

It was snowing as we left the resort and it is colder this evening, so hopefully we will get some better conditions before the end of the hols. 4 days left on the slopes.

In other news, we've had an amazing Mexican meal, complete with tequila I had an amazing steak and tonight we had a true American diner style burger.

Oh, and we've also discovered the "Mangy moose". Après ski with quite spectacular scenery... ;-)  
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Jackson Blog Day 6 : Clocking 80km/h!

OK, as I sat on my bed in my pants drinking beer, let's try and get caught up...

So, yesterday me, Andy and Megan went to the Snow King resort for our "day off" while Yvonne cruised the shops. Snow King is a much smaller resort in the town of Jackson itself. It had corderouy, hard packed pistes which were VERY fast! Downloaded an app to my iPhone the night before which could track your run, an tell you your max speed etc, and had a play with this. Pointed the board downhill and hit 80km/h on one run! Pretty breathtaking, but muchos fun! Reckon I could go faster though :-D

Took a break in the afternoon to do some tubing which was good japes, and then snowboarded to sunset, taking advantage of the night-skiing which was part of the day-pass. Practiced some switch riding, which went mostly well, but did result in a few butt-bruising falls!

Dominos and a film in the evening. Happy Gilmore. Pretty beat again though - hard work these snowboarding holidays!!  
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Jackson Blog Day 5 : Powder day!

Wow, what a day yesterday was! Oodles of fresh snow everywhere and with the sun having his hat on conditions were perfect. Queues for the tram were huge so we avoided that, but there was so much powder everywhere that really, there was no need to be venturing up there, where visibility wasn't looking so good anyway.

My new boots took a but of getting used to at first as they do require a slightly different riding technique. As I'm getting more response on the board from the boots, there's less need to try and overwork the movements to get things going. This is a good thing though as it means that aswell as having comfortable feet, it's also not so hard work on the legs.

Highlight of the days boarding was definitely the hike up to untracked deep deep powder just beyond the gondola. Although many tumbles were taken by all, including me ending up upside down, buried in snow, with my board wedged in a tree(!!), it was just amazing fun. Truly what snowboarding is all about, and we will definitely be giving that another go before the end of the hols.

Spent most of the rest of the day exploring the bowls, the trees, and just generally staying off the pistes as much as humanly possible! This mountain is just brilliant!

On the evening we went to see the local ice hockey team - the jackson hole moose - take a 6-2 pasting from the mccall mountaineers. Although it wasnt in the same league as a flames game (literally!), it was still good fun and Megan enjoyed it. There's an all-star NHL alumni team playing next Friday so that could be worth checking out.

Just to give mention to a somewhat random dream I had last night, can I just take a moment to thank cheryl cole for the advice :-S!!

We are off to the smaller Snow King resort today. We have a spare day that our JH lift pass doesn't cover, and, guessing that JH will be heaving with locals today, we are going to give it a go. Nigh be doing some tubing, maybe some ice skating too, so should be a bit of a change of pace. It's all good!

Tatty byes!! X  
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Jackson Blog Day 4 : Snow, snow, snow, and new boots!

I'm gonna keep this fairly brief today. Time a not on my side and there's not a deal to say about yesterday.

We were all struggling a bit yesterday with sore legs and tiredness. The third day on the slopes is often a hard one and we hadn't exactly been taking it easy in the first two days. After a gentle warm up run, we headed straight up the sky tram to hit the fresh snow from the day before. Pretty awesome again, but again next to no visibility so we did feel our way down quite gingerly!
After this we did a couple of runs off the gondola by which point the snow was teaming down!

We stopped for lunch and some beers and that's where it all went a bit wrong. With my feet suffering the usual pains all morning, my brother suggested I try his...and the difference was so vast that after an afternoon in the shops, several boot fittings and some cunning bartering, I was the owner of a new pair of Vans boots! Spent more than I had wanted to, but they are good stiff boots, and have the boa dial adjustment dial, which will be so much easier than arsing on re-doing laces after every run! Felt like a bit of a wasted afternoon but with the snow blizzard like outside, visibility would not have been great, and with everyone feeling it a bit, the break wasn't too unwelcome. If itmeans I am relatively pain free for the rest of the hold then it will have been worth it, but we shall see!

Anyway, there we are. Gonna go get ready now. With all the snow that's dumped, it should be awesome today. Just hope skies are a bit clearer so we can take full advantage!

On the evening we headed to the supermarket for essential supplies (twinkies!) and then (eventually) got pizza delivered.  
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Jackson Blog Day 3 - Steep n deep!

Ok, so just to finish off where I left you. Following my last blog we went into town for tea. We landed in a nice little family steakhouse diner. So, naturally, I had fish! Rainbow trout in fact. Yummers! The others did have steak though and it looked mighty fine.

Following that, a quick excursion to the snowboard shop as my bro was after price checking a new board and I needed goggles, but alas it was shut. Made our way home via the supermarket where the legendary twinkies were found and purchased, and then via the licqour store where a large stash of pbs beer was purchased. Americas finest in 1893, apparently!

There's little else to report from the evening. We were all so tired when we got back, that simply staying awake was quite a challenge (at about 9pm!). Just about held out til 10pm before just giving up!

So, onto day 3. Up, breakfast and on the bus by 8- it has to be said the whole bus thing is much more civilized here than in banff. In fact, all in all it's more laid back here, I'd say. Apparently it is quite quiet due to "bad snow". Blimey... If this is bad snow, I can't begin to imagine what it's like when it's good!

My brother had borrowed a demo board at the end of yesterday- determined to get a new one. It was a k2 gyrator- one of these new breed of "rocker" boards that curve the opposite way. One test run later and a new board was purchased! Not the gyrator, but it's sister board... I forget it's name, but it's very similar.

Megan went into snowboard school today and yvonne was on skis so we all did some runs together. Legs holding up surprisingly well after getting over the early morning stiffness. Stopped for some lunch with a blizzard raging outside (shame...lol), after which me, andy and my bro decided it was time to take the sky tram right to the very top despite utter cack visibility! Can't deny feeling a little nervous at the signs saying we would die, and that this was expert terrain only (and we are doing this in a white-out?!?!), but infact, although it was a bit tricky to see, so long as you stuck to marked routes, it was perfectly fine.

It was amazing infact, true steep n deep! Reminded me of the lower section of delirium dive. It's gonna be amazing there today if the snow has continued, so we will be heading up there first thing!

It was a long run down though and the legs were feeling it at the bottom, so we stopped for a beer before heading out for one last run. I'm totally loving it, feel so great and confident on my new board. I'm whizzing through moguls, carving, jumping, riding fakie, buttering... And yes, I am a show off :-P. My bro is loving his new board too, so it's all good!

Had a fairly quiet evening in with a Chinese take-away, beer, hannah Montana and some cack Disney film. Managed to eek the evening out to 11pm before hitting the zs so, slowly coming to terms with the jetlag!

And so that brings us to now, laid in my super comfy bed, but now I need to get up and get ready for another gnarly day! Woop! Until next time folks... X  
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