Phil

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I got back from Austria earlier today, after an awesome week of Snowboarding and drinking in Saalbach! I have never known such crazy apres-ski


A weeks beer money for Austria

Anyway, I will spare you the random pics of my mates and the drinking ones, here are some snow related ones instead

The day we arrived it had been snowing pretty heavy all day, and carried on into the night, so we were mega excited for the first day, even the bottom of the slopes were looking pretty white:


(The resort is only at 1000m so snow can be iffy at the bottom at this time of year)

At the top there was a very thick covering of fresh powder everywhere:


We spent the first day exploring one side of the mountain and got a bit over excited with the off piste... First we nearly went flying off a cliff (one of my friends dived on the floor infront of me as we came through some trees to see the 50ft drop )

Then we went a bit far and had to trek back up the hill:

(Not much fun at the end of a very long day and the Camelbak had just run out )

We spent the next couple of days exploring the mountain as much as possible:





Every day just got hotter and hotter and so we tried to get as much boarding in as possible in the first few days whilst the snow was still fairly good, but the sun was soooo strong we were boarding in just T-Shirts a lot of the time!



By the end of the week the snow was deteriorating so we decided to build a kicker!



We spent a whole day chilling out in the sun, getting a tan and messing around on the jump...









They didn't all go to plan though


(I found out that icy crusty snow tears your arms to shreads and boarding in a t-shirt isn't a good idea )

But even after an entire week of seriously hot sunny days we still managed to get some good off piste in on the last day:



All the pics are of me by the way It's good to be on the other side of the lens for once

Graham S1

We've just booked to glacier boarding in Austria in june.

RC4

nice pics phil,looks like you got good weather as well mate

don,t you go on www.adrenalintrip.co.uk in the snowboarding forum?

nigel b

nice pics
im off tommorow to montegenevre for a week

what was this seasons darkstar like as ive just had mine replaced with it

Charlie Chalk

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have you got these in high res??

if you have could you pm/email me this please Phil














cool pictures

Phil

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I don't, but I will have a look at that site tomorrow, don't really go on any snowboarding websites

Charlie Chalk

I do have them in high res, but a couple of them (that one included) were taken on my camera phone which is only 2 megapixel (1600x1200 I think) let me know if you still want it!

Charlie Chalk

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yeah I will please Phil

Phil

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nigel b
I love my Darkstar Done 3 weeks on it this year and about 8 trips to the Snowdome, it's safe to say it is pretty battered now

Phil

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Charlie Chalk
You have email

Charlie Chalk

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So I do

cheers Phil

steve7786

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I've just got back from Bavia myself, spent the week skiing mainly. Towards the end of the week we spent most of the time on the Austrian slopes as the snow was fading fast, it was mostly slush in the afternoon. I did have a crack at snow boarding and it's fair to say it was harder than i thought it would be and it hurts a lot more when you cream in lol.

Twins

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Got back from a weeks skiing in saalbach/ hinterglemm and leogang on the 11th march

Phil

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Twins
You were there the week before me then?

One of my dirty skier friends' instructor told them that they had hardly any snow that week?

brad

went to andorra in january , the week before they had a proper dump of snow broke my tailbone on the solid ice and dislocated my shoulder on the last day. all in all a really succesfull holiday

GARETH T

looks like you had a cracking time phil

amazing photos as ever dude

righthooker

good pics ,makes me jelouse(sp)
I lived in germany for 10 years and went boarding most weekends in the winter ,one of the things i miss most about germany .

Spiky

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looks fooking awesome dude

Twins

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Nah mate we had plenty ,lovely blue skies ,was skiing to the bottom at hinterglemm ,did to the bottom of shattberg express ,was a bit heavy at the bottom ,had a nice snowfall on the wed night in to thurs which gave a nice powder day ,one of my favourite resorts been there about 5 times now ,last time was back in 1990 ,when the underground parking wernt there

Madbradz

Nice Pics! Where abouts did you go? I Got back from St.Johann Yesterday! @ was skiining at Wagrain/Alpendorf

Munch

great pics, looks bloody fun

Phil

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Cheers guys

adam2.8i
I went to Saalbach / Hinterglemm in Austria!

Twins
I would definitely go back (although not until I had explored a few more resorts first)

I did the Shattberg Express black last thing on the first day... It was certainly tricky on the snowboard and especially after 7 hours of boarding beforehand