Category Archives: snowboarding

So the holiday drew to a close at the weekend, and we all had the dubious pleasure of trooping back onto a Monarch transatlantic flight to return home. This time, with no two weeks of snow to look forward to, which made the shitty service and lousy food that bit harder to swallow.

On the plus side, the holiday itself was ace, and I am very impressed with Canada. The people there are lovely, and exceptionally friendly and helpful. Claire is now a pretty proficient snowboarder, happily throwing herself down blue and black runs, which coincidentally is the colour of various parts of her body – she does bruise like a peach! On the last day we all got ourselves GPS trackers to monitor our performance on the slopes. Most excitingly, this showed me as having a maximum speed of 60 km/h, which I think is none too shabby. Prior to that we also went and saw the Calgary Flames kick the crap out of LA at ice hockey, which was bags of fun. All in all it was a great holiday – but it does feel pretty weird not to have a snowboarding trip planned in any way right now.
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After much umming and ahhing, I have finally purchased a new snowboard. I’ve been very reluctant to do so in the past – concerned that a substantial investment might not actually yield any significant benefits with my riding. However On Tuesday we went to Continue reading →