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Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Baden January 12th 2006

Hey all, Well what a weeks its been, full of learning and adventure. I’ve hit that point this week where everything’s coming together a bit more and I feel like the season is well and truly underway, my riding fakie is coming on, Nick and I are getting a lot more adventurous in our attempts to find powder and we’ve started on the rails and kickers! Fisrt I should say that their has been no snow since we arrived back in Davos, however the area is big enough to still have fresh powder even after a few weeks of no snow, it just means its harder to find. On the advise of our instructor housemates we brought and learnt how to use avalanche transceivers. But don’t worry, its like asking “do you know CRP?” I bet ... read more
Hiking to some powder
Nick riding a shoot
Nick doing what we all do somtimes

Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Baden December 23rd 2005

So the first week of the season….. Well the journey out really started to go wrong even before we woke up as the alarms didn’t go off and it was only by luck that we woke up at all, then the taxi we’d booked didn’t turn up so we had a bit of a dash to get to the train station with our tenth of a ton of gear! Then once at the airport we got royally stitched up by Easyjet and told our board bags were included in our 20kgs each weight allowance, hence we were 60kgs over….. at £5 a kilo, you do the maths! Then to top it all after 12 hours of travelling we got off at the wrong station in Davos and had to wait around for an hour for the ... read more
Head wound 2
Head wound 3
Traveling to Davos




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