Thursday 25th - Carried Away

Today Luke, Nico, Jim and Myself went up to check out the powder. We aimed to ride the Chatel area since I knew a few spots and Nico had a couple up his sleeve. We rode pretty hard in the morning. We rode the same powder field we did the day before and pissed about on and off-piste.

We trekked across the right-hand side of linga, The left peak was out due to lack of snow (this was the infamous Avalanche spot from last year). The off-piste here was spot on, deep not heavily tracked and asking to be ridden.



After a superb run down the right hand side of Linga we decided to stop for a bite to eat at a restaurant perched high on the side. All was good till we planned to leave. Screw walking down I thought. I clipped in and decided to nail it off the side. All would have been good had it not been for the cliff and rocks. I hit the first drop fine, caught rocks and fell backwards down the second jut of rocks. I knew things weren't great when time slowed down. I thought to myself, this is really going to hurt. Luckily it didn't, though if my board could talk it would have been totally pissed with me. All in all 6 core shots and a small hole in my hand.

This freaked me out a bit so I took the rest of the day slowly. I get a little carried away sometimes. I am riding down slopes steeper than anything I have ever ridden. My powder riding is going from strength to strength.

In the Evening I hit the Buddha bar to meet up with my Uncle who was over for the week and his crazy drinking mates. The have apparently gained a record for the largest shot order in Buddha bar history. 200 Euros in one round. I managed to get a couple of drinks so was quite happy and lubricated for the Ridge bars Aussie Night. There weren't many Aussies, but was mildly amusing. Then onto the garage (my fav place). Tonight they were playing minimal and electro house. Would have been blinding if there were more people there. Julie was there so chatted to her for ages. A girl boarder who loves techno...... Im in heaven. She said she would like to catch up again so I will def pursue that. For some reason we went onto Paradis. I hate shitty clubs that think they are good. Wank. So drank a 6 Euro bud and dreamt of the Bass floor at fabric.