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january shredfest
January has been all about the snow! And as you know, snow means snowboarding...
For a second year running, it has snowed in the UK, and this co-incided with a large windfall of snow from the BIC icerink - so after much jib-spotting and location research, I decided to do another wallride.
My good friend Sonia Shaw needed some photos for her Animal portfolio, so Sonia, her boyfriend Mark and I spent 7 hours building a wallride in Bournemouth Memorial Gardens - in a race against time to ride it before the police came...
 Our luck held - the weather was good, the police were absent - and Animal sports photographer Robin Kitchin spent 2 hours taking photos and video of the wallride.
I can't show you Sonia's photos, but here are mine:
We were thoroughly knackered by the end of it, having spent 13 hours building, riding, and breaking it up - but it was a great day and the photos speak for themselves...
The next week - more snow - in the shape of a 2 week trip to Chamonix.
The first week was spent with my mum, hooking up with Flipside rider Spal and friends who were in town that week - and then our friends Rosco, Greg and his housemate (another) Sonia for the second week...
The snow was perfect - a constant cycle of 2 days snowing, then 3 days blue skies! We arrived just after it had snowed, and enjoyed fresh powder lines for 2 weeks straight - and you can't ask for better than that ;)
We spent much of the time finding powder in the gulleys, and tree-runs around the Chamonix valley, and made occasional forays into the park - although to be fair, much less park action took place this year, purely because it would have been criminal to miss the powder-riding opportunities!
But, ultimately, all good things come to an end - and we had to return to the UK.
I came back to the unwelcome prospect of an operation - so am currently convalescing and nursing a nasty 4cm x 2cm open wound. Yow :(
No streetboarding for me for a while - but we will see how things go...
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