Saturday 4th March

Snowboarding for the (sniff) final time (sniff). Usual routine- on the bus for 9 am and on the slopes for about 11. The weather is good today- sunshine and broken cloud- and it's quite warm. There is a kind of competition in the snowboard park with the young dudes flinging themselves into orbit, and mainly landing, amid much "wooing". There's a jock commentating and some phat beats playing on the speakers. Like totally gnarly, dude!

When no-one is looking, I dodge onto the course and do a 1080 (that's a jump with three full revolutions). I land it perfectly, then go onto the rail and nail that one too. AWESOME! The crowd was buzzing. "Who IS that guy...?" Sadly I don't think it was captured on camera. Here are the rad dudes waiting their turn, mere moments before my incredible leap.




















My new Burton mitts are super warm. Which is good.

In the afternoon, I have my final lesson with David Dude and Benedict Geek. We do carving (just going fast in a curve really) and POWER CARVING (going a bit faster in a curve). I am totally boss. At the end, we do some mini jumps in a mini park (for losers). Ben canes it over a jump and from where me and David are standing, we just know that he is going to land on his head. Which he does. He seems to land mainly on his eye socket, and will no doubt have a nice shiner to show his Microsoft buddies on Monday morning. At the bottom of the slope, there is a really bad band playing ("No Doubt" covers a-go-go and a hot tub full of pi**ed-up Americans- grrrreat!)





















Nevertheless, I am sad to leave Snoquers for the last time and pack up my board for going home. BOO!!!