If all freeride contests where like today I would compete in a lot more of them then I do. The face was one of the best I have ever ridden in Europe, we got to hike it, and we had a full mission through a river to get back to the rode. It was a [...]
Archives for February, 2008
Big Mountain Pro
Swiss Apls-The Full Moon Sessions #2
Things started to get crazy last night around midnight. The terrain in zone two and snow was better then expected making for the best riding of the trip day or night. It was a full on playground lit perfectly for us. We could send legit airs, ride spines, and straight run long chutes. Mitch said [...]
Swiss Apls-The Full Moon Sessions
The images on the screen blew me away. (Check www.huckandchuck.com for free downloads) Skiers fighting sluffs, bouncing off pillows and launching cliffs. It wasn’t the skiing that had my jaw on the floor but that they were doing it at night. One year later I was sitting on the bus next to the midnight skier [...]
Swiss Alps with the Falquet brothers
I learned a long time ago to that Europe is a lot more fun if you hook up with the locals. My first couple of trips over seas I traveled with a caravan of Americans. We would bumble around the countries eating at bad resteruants, overpaying for hotels and going to the wrong [...]
TB Super Spines
“There comes a time when one must risk something or sit forever with their dreams.” Trevor Peterson
Today I rode a line I have looked at for 8 years and like so many times before it looked thin and rocky. I had turned my back on it in better conditions but today I just couldn’t [...]