Chatham dry slope did it again…not only did it provide the venue for this weekend’s second leg of the Southern Freestyle Series but it proved it has its own special micro-climate! Every time I’ve visited Chatham for a snowboarding comp it’s turned into the hottest weekend of the year meaning we’ve all melted in the [...]
Everything about me pretty much aches today, from soles of my feet to my neck I feel battered and bruised, but I’m still happy. Yesterday was the first leg of the Southern Freestyle Series at Bracknell and I headed over there despite my hatred of the Permasnow surface that covers the slope because I miss [...]
Kate Day runs a weekly photo comp as part of her Telegraph blog. This week’s theme has been “tall” and so I thought I would give my new camera a competitive outing. I’m not expecting to get anywhere (and in fact I think today’s photos may actually have been submitted too late) but I thought [...]
When I’m feeling down I find it really hard to blog, I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t want to seem whiny, don’t want to force people into feeling sorry for me or whether I simply can’t be bothered (probably a mix of all that and other reasons too). Whatever it is it’s meant [...]
I’ve just had a really hectic weekend, after a long week at work I headed 85 miles from home to Norwich Ski Centre in Norfolk for the British Artificial Snowboard Championships, nick-named the mini-Brits. This was the first of this year’s series of UK based snowboarding & skiing competitions and was ranked as a TTR [...]
What a weekend, we left for Castleford at 6am on Friday morning and eventually made it to the hotel at lunchtime. Torrential rain, a crash that closed the A1 and a project conference call (while I was parked in Asda car park) meant it took 6 hours rather than the normal 3 to get up [...]
