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Last day on the mountain today here in Morzine. Sun was out, but it was FREEZING! Off home in a bit, just waiting for the transfer to pick me up and off to Geneva airport. Awesome week with some of the best powder (for 10 years so some reports say). Thanks again to Simon, Alex & Marie.

Until next time!

After the past few days of poor visibility (albeit great snow) we finally lucked out and got some blue sky action. No low hanging fruits here, just sitting on top of the world!

Good times had today doing some backcountry tracks here in Morzine, France. Loads of snow, loads of powder and rewarded with a few brews afterwards, the way it should be!

The view from the chalet this morning. A little overcast I’ll admit, but there’s no chance of not having enough snow!

Just like surfing, skiing is always about the report! What will the conditions be like? Well, I didn’t have to look too far. Here’s a pic straight from the horse’s (in this case Simon) mouth. A little cloudy today, but I’d safely say there is enough of the white stuff to keep us happy!

A few week’s back I discovered my friend Simon had gone out to do a season in the French Alps in the resort of Morzine. So like all good friends, what did I do? I invited myself out to go and hang out for a few days :)

Luckily Simon (and the friends he is staying with) are very kind and said yes to my plea. So I full of stoke, I booked my flights, sorted out transfers and did a little shopping yesterday for some new kit (helmet, goggles and ski pants).

I’m taking 3 different GoPro mounts, plus the Canon 550D, so here’s hoping we get some decent footage.

Next update will be from Morzine tomorrow.

Laters…

Just watched Seaworthy, a surf movie by independent film maker, Nathan Oldfield. Beautifully shot, with a chilled out soundtrack and a moving story as the centrepiece for the film. Check out the trailer below!

Thanks Brad for buying this for me for Christmas.

A few shots from the garden this morning and one of the window with some condensation on it.

Been a busy bee this weekend and published my second book on Blurb. This time a short 60-pager about our trip to Tallinn back in May 2010.

Dig!

We’d been planning a little surf trip down to North Devon for about a month and randomly choose the last weekend in September. Having travelled to Devon so many times and invariably missing out on epic conditions (such is the life of a landlocked surfer), we went with an open mind and tried to have little (or no) expectations of what the conditions would be like.

On what was apparently the hotest October in the UK on record, we scored some of the cleanest waves, offshore winds and best weather we’ve EVER had on a North Devon surf trip. I surfed in a pair of board shorts all weekend, with a short wetsuit top just to keep the wind off. In all, I reckon I put in about 10-15 hours in the water over the course of the weekend, testiment to the fact that we just couldn’t get enough of what had been served up to us.

Now, call it fate, call it reward for all the times we’ve gone down and it being crap, or call it higher intervention, this time it was an epic session that will go down in the memory as one of the best times we’ve had down in Woolacombe and one that will be hard to top.

You know what comes next!

Stoked :)