I didn’t expect to be posting these pics at all – it hasn’t snowed in 4 days, we are in a bit of a thaw/freeze cycle and it is a long weekend (the only thing I hate more than weekends are LONG WEEKENDS). So I’ve been doing some hiking and I found some tracks coming out of the trees in the middle of no where.  After … Continue reading No jibbers allowed

After such an awesome day at Breck, Little Spoon and I had to try and top that.  There is a little Mom and Pop ski field about an hour away, deep in the rockies, and we thought that perhaps there might be a few less people about as well. We were right about there not being too many people (lift line in the background – … Continue reading Ski, Ski Cooper

First time I’ve skied Breck this year and it was a pearler of a day!!! 6 inches of fresh over night, the day started off blue bird without a breath of wind and around midday the clouds came in and it started snowing.  There were a few people about on Spring Break so dodging the lift lines meant the crew got to ski some stuff … Continue reading Best Day at Breck (thus far)

Sounds like the beginning of one of my jokes…. but this is the beginning of an awesome day skiing/hiking. I couldn’t believe how good the weather and the snow turned out today – it was busy as bloody London so we escaped to the high country.  Here is Eric, me, Dave and Little Spoon. Some portraits of the crew – warning!!!  Some of these are gay.  … Continue reading 2 Nerds, A Preacher and a Marine

I’m loving being back in the US.  10 more weeks of skiing before I’m back to NZ. There is more snow on the forecast but today was a gorgous spring kind of day.  After sleeping in (there was a bottle of scotch here yesterday arvo which has disappeared) Little Spoon and I headed up to The Basin for a couple of hours this afternoon. As … Continue reading Back in the USA

I know I have told people that I will ski in Europe one day and that day has come – earlier than I expected. Tamatha and Bungles looked after me my first weekend in the UK and they were fantastic hosts!!!  They saw how nervous I was riding the tube and those freeky double decker buses so they thought I would be more comfortable on … Continue reading Skiing in Europe

This should be the last skiing post for a while – tonight it starts snowing (AGAIN) and is forecast to snow for the next 5 days (should be worth a foot – maybe 2).  Then Andy is off to Japland and I’m off to the UK. So I have only limited chances to share the great snow conditions. Andy and I were up at the … Continue reading Last skiing post for a while – I promise

After bringing in my birthday early this morning with a couple of sheilas in the hottub (yes little spoon can verify it).  This morning looked terrible – 60mph wind gusts, low cloud and a little snow (you thought I was going to say something about the girls looking terrible). So after the 8am weather check it was back to bed. Then waking up a little closer to … Continue reading Cruising on a Tuesday

I’ve been looking forward to some hiking but to date there hasn’t been the opportunity (the snow has been that good inbounds). Little Spoon and I picked up some hiking gear – my first set of skins (they are 100% Baby Seal) and these tricky binding things that AJ and Richard instructed me to get. Here is me looking like an old hand (more like … Continue reading Time for some hiking

This is a long winded road trip post. ——————————————————- The first of the footage is now online (remember – right click then ‘Save Target As’)…. Flogging the jeep (35meg). My tribute to slowboarders (18eg). ——————————————————- Finaly road trip post…. This afternoon Lurch and Lisa were dropped off at Denver International Airport and as I haven’t heard from them since I’m assuming they made their flight. … Continue reading More Road Trips

Video additions to this post (remember – right click then ‘save target as’ is the best way to download these)…..  Tyler and myself down Starfire (this is the 133km/hr run – not quite that today but pretty quick) – 10meg file. Al Airborne skiing the Windows. (45meg file). Andy in the Bullet Glades – 10meg. Tom in the Bullet Glades  – 11meg. I’ve written 6 … Continue reading No title