Hey all, thanks for reading the first part, had a few comments so I thought I better do another.
Unfortunatley for you guys, my trip isn’t exactly a mystical trip into the unknown, quite the contrary. I wake up at in my cell(if you don’t know what I’m talking about, read here) at 6.45, roll into shower block where it’s a heart-warming 0 degrees, brush my teeth, then walk into town to have a sandwich and jump a bus. That said, everyday when the bus pulls in the car park I get just as excited as day one(day two actually). Day 3 looked like this…
Clouds left about 15 minutes after this photo.
I rode mostly by myself on day 3, which made it a bit hard to get motivated. It also made it a bit hard to take photos without looking like a wanker. I guess this made the internet blog gods pissed, because at 2 p.m. Snowpark handed my ass back to me. I was going a little slower in the arvo crud, drifted a little and knuckled the first table at about 450. It sometimes hard to tell if you hurt or in shock or whatever, but when I woke up after sleeping on the bus home, my shoulder felt jacked. It was hard to take my clothes off. Whatever, I’ll be fine.
That night I went to visit the Billabong guys who are in town doing their new catalog stuff. Cool to see a bunch of guys i haven’t seen in a while. Dan Himbrechts was there and I think he should write a blog, he just returned from a heli trip at Mt Potts, good times.
Day 4.
It really doesn’t get any better than this…
My shoulder felt sort of alright, so I took it easy for the first few runs. Then Billabong posse arrived. Now don’t get me wrong, I love snowboarding with friends, but snowbarding with these guys is hard. Not that I have to impress any of these guys…
Nugg (about 2 minutes before Ryan Tiene attempted to give him a 50kmph haircut). Or…
But you do feel a certain obligation to at least try a little harder around these guys. Needless to say I belted myself again, hurt my shoulder a bit (boo-fucking-hoo). That was good enough time for me to eat another sanga and maybe try a film a little or take happy snaps.
Some of the Snowpark crew at work, they shred hard too.
Ryan Tiene, killing it lately, be ready for his part in the new Sandbox film.
Nate Johnstone, casual BS 7 mute. Nate is currently 10th in the TTR world tour rankings. Yeah buddy!
After that i put my camera away and did some jib runs. Before you know it, it’s 3.30 and i have to jump a bus. One more look before you go home and pass out.
Beautiful isn’t it?
Tonight I might go hang out with some friends if I can escape from prison. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Out for now.
