Saturday 4 October 2014

Summer 2014

I have had an amazing summer..
Chilling in Courch, 2 trips to Scotland, Frappa, Summer Glaciers, Holiday in camper van.

Chilling in Courchevel
Stayed at home mostly this summer. Dismantling & Building our new chalet. Helping out at Pleisure Holidays. Unfortunately didn't get as much Volleyball this year though as has been one of the worst summers for rain in Courch only had 5 dry days in July! but all good.

Removing roof and floors of our new place Chalet Swift.

1st Summer trip to Scotland
Headed to Scotland for a private session in Breahead with Team GB on an airbag was fun to ride in a dome! here is a link to the team edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF4GPIyUjZ8


Frappadingue
Did the Frappadingue (french version of Tough Mudder) again this year, had a couple of other mates doing it with me was a fun day kept to the routine of having a Jager Bomb first thing to get us pumped to do the 12.5km run with an obstacle every 300m, was quite tired when we finished! haha. Come and join me in Courch next year to do this again http://www.frappadingue.net/les-courses/frappadinguealp-xtrem/

The Start of the Frappadingue

Summer Glaciers, Les 2 Alpes, Saas Fee, Tignes, Zermatt
Did a few day trips to the summer Glaciers, picked my days depending on weather, all had pretty good setups. Had fun at all.. Tignes had a new park for this year, hopefully will continue and improve for next, especially the lift! Saas Fee had fun riding the pipe. Zermatt no pipe :( found some natural stuff to session. Les 2 Alpes best of the lot this summer, awesome pipe, big park setup.

Les 2 Alpes pipe

Scotland Again
Now been to Scotland 3 times this year!! Even more fun this trip, more of the same, skate and air bag session at Braehead. Plus went to the Edinburgh comedy festival and saw the Canterbury tales. Got to fly back VIP and spent 4hours in the Heathrow lounge making sure all the wine was good enough standard! link to Team GB edit from this trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEhHHdZ5snI&feature=youtu.be


Holiday in Camper Van
Went travelling again in Forrest our vw camper. Started by going across to Carcans on west coast of France, met up with Alice and Adam, ex Pleisure staff.


Then headed down to Capbreton to see Jim, Annie and Thatch for our annual catch up with mates, surf, skate, swimming, bridge jumping, good food and wine! (H2O Surf Holidays http://www.h2oholidays.com/), surf was awesome the waves were tiny!! also went to Le Deck for lunch owned by people from La Tania, check it out on Gordon Ramseys Costa del Kitchen Nightmares! haha. Then we headed on a wine tasting tour of Rioja in Spain, Corbieres, St Emillion and Cote du Rhone / Chateauneuf-du-Pape in France. With some bull running in Nimes, swimming and yoga everyday, and some cool skate parks. Another awesome trip.

Riding the biggest sand dune in Europe Dune du Pilat

 Yoga on Lac Vassiviere

 Wine tasting in Rioja

 Yoga on beach at Collioure

Grape picking near Narbonne

Skating St Jean de Luz


Season Edit
Finally got an edit up of what i have been up to the last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgLg7Krgjz4&list=UUDFWeBoRdlnJ8rijB9kTwdA

Now off to Hintertux tomorrow, my winter is about to begin, cant wait....