Snowboarding Sunday

Tignes tomorrow.

Yes! Get in.

iPod riding

Narg + iPod feeling the music love.

So there's two schools of appreciation on this one. Those who enjoy riding with music and those who don't I strictly belong to the former and love nothing better than listening to some tunage while travelling at warp 9. It's pretty cool. There's some drawbacks - you can't hear things (directions, friends, avalanches) but there's some real benefits such as having a soundtrack and a pace to ride to. It's wicked - like being the central character in your own snowboard movie. But there's something also really nice about being in total silence with only the noise of your board and breathing accompanying you down the mountain.

I went riding with Kev on the Grands Montets today for a quick couple of hours and we did a LOT of vert. Dropped into one of the big bowls that is hard to access and had a few k's of just pure riding backcountry. Really good fun just to be out there with a mate riding alone and coming together to plot the next line down the mountain. Kev rode well, we both did, with a few rock drops and kickers and lots of pure freeriding. Good day - solid. Powder and adventure.

Chamonix photos

One of the boys in the chalet has been using his flickr account to post up pics of the various days riding. They are pretty good in fact.

Here's the link to his flickr homepage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinknox

First few days in Cham

Everything seems to be coming together nicely. Am riding the Grands Montets today - one of the mountains in the valley. Low cloud cover so probably going to take a few hits getting up to full speed. Never mind, no pain no gain.

There's a reasonable amount of snow to contend with, but it really could do with a heavy dump. Luckily the taste of snow is in the air and the temperature's dropped. One of the great things about being here full time is being able to make a judgement call each morning whether or not to go up on the mountain. If it's really crap then there's always tomorrow. It doesn't really matter at the moment, so revved up about being here that Narg would ride in a whiteout blizzard.