My snowboard bindings arrived

My snowboard bindings arrived yesterday, and very pleased I am too. I originally ordered some special “lady” flow bindings, but despite Robin Hood Watersports saying they had them to sell, they later emailed me to say they didn’t. 🙁 So, I opted for some Pro 11 flow’s from edge2edge. I bought them when they were still at full price, but they sold them at their sale price – so I got £35 off them. Thank you edge2edge 😀

This evening we attached our bindings to our boards (with not too much difficulty)- we just need to find some snow now…

Since coming back from

Since coming back from Canada we’ve bought a few

snowboarding magazines and books to tide us over and help us find a great resort for next

year. We bought the World Snowboard

guide 2004 which has a useful looking accompanying site and seems pretty detailed

but the spelling mistakes let it down somewhat, also a copy of Snowboard UK and a copy of Onboard. We’ve also ordered a year’s subscription to

the Snowboard Journal on Luke’s

recommendation but the shipping to the UK is sloooow (6 – 8 weeks) and so we haven’t

received our first issue yet.

Big White

March 2004

We headed off for a weeks snowboarding to Big White in Canada, and tagged a day in Vancouver on the front to take advantage of a good exchange rate to buy some cheaper snowboarding gear. Managed to eat in a great restaurant, before heading off to Big White. We’d hired a Dodge Dorango so fitting 5 of us plus gear in wasn’t a problem – although picking up our groceries in Kelowna on the way through did mean that people were resting their feet on crates of beer.

Big White was a great resort with enough terrain to keep us (beginners) and Jeremy and Kirsty (experts) happy, our accommodation was excellent and although there aren’t a huge amount of restaurants there was enough to keep us occupied for a week.

From the snowboarding perspective, we had a couple of 2 hour semi-private lessons which were really good. Very high quality and certainly helped us to get the most out of our second snowboarding holiday.

Well we survived our

Well, we survived our first snowboarding holiday. We went to Les Arcs, France and had a wonderful time.

No real injuries to speak of, a few bruises and blisters, and a lot of aching muscles but other than that it was a real success for us (less so for Simes and Steff who didn’t get as much snowboarding in as Daisy wouldn’t settle in the nursery). We concentrated on a couple of runs, and got used to the terrain so that we could learn new aspects rather than spending all our time wondering what we were going to have to deal with next.