Hope you all had a great Christmas!
Chamonix has once again turned back into a perfect winter wonderland with over 2 ft of snow fall in the valley over the Christmas weekend.
The forecast this week is for clear skies so perfect conditions for this weeks Off Piste clinic which kicks off tomorrow morning.
Christmas here was fantastic, Ruth threw her usual Christmas party which filled the house to over flowing and saw a rare visit from that other 'Jones' snowboarding character, the Jenny one (x factor winner!) who came over for a surprise visit with Tammy from Mint and then threw a sicky, not from drink I must add, our Jen was properly poorly and early to bed, but not until 'Urban Magik' Mike had baffled us all with some more insane magic, levitation and spoon bending feats.
On Christmas eve I drove over to the Nidecker factory where they make the Jones boards and picked up my test fleet of Solution Split boards. Still waiting for bindings and skins but things are coming together and I'll pick up my Flagships later today to complete my full Jones quiver of boards.
Perfect conditions out there today, blue skies and super light powder snow, nice! Nipped out for a few turns on my skis, great fun!
Back on the Hovercraft tomorrow for the Off Piste clinic, we'll do a bit of technique and run through the basics of how the board works, bio mechanics and control of speed and line. We'll run through some Avalanche search and rescue training and charge the back of Le Tour until darkness stops play.
My review of the Hovercraft earned a few links so check these out. (I'm still computor illiterate so you'll have to do the copy and paste thing).
http://chamonixinsider.com/2010/12/23/chamonix-gear-guide-jones-hovercraft/
http://www.snowboard-review.com/snowboard_reviews/review/hovercraft/
All is good in Chamonix.
Neil.
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