La Clusaz, France

Last weekend I traveled to France to compete in the La Clusaz Radikal free ride contest i got there by bus then train transfer to another train then bus and then another bus, a bit of a mission but I got there!
It was so beautiful the weather was super nice big steep mtns all around the small village it was nice to be in France "Bonjour"

 Finals venue were on the mountain behind me, pretty steep!!

La Clusaz church

It was two days of competing first day qualifier then finals, the next top 5 girls qualified to the final day. We had riders meeting that evening and had the bib draw my name was drawn 3rd, so I dropped 3rd out of 111 snowboarders and skiers pretty cool I was super excited.

Next morning I woke super early as i was dropping so early had not seen the face we were ridding only in photos so i was kind of nervous I tried to go and hit this cliff got totally lost and really rode the easiest way down hit a few things did a few grabs then i was done it was like 930 am so i hung out and watched everyone. I ended up been 5th with my super mellow run so I new I needed to hit some more stuff for the finals!

sun rise as I was hiking up, check out the love heart lake

We had riders meeting and another bib draw mine was number 3 again i thought that has to be lucky! So it was another early start for me and on a completely different face the snow conditions were a lot better than day one. We had to wear harness and get lowered in with ropes to the face was pretty crazy. I had chosen a line for this face I dropped in committed to going where I wanted to I dropped a cliff into a shoot and sat down i was so annoyed but got up and kept on charging down hitting a bunch of rocks and fun small hits I got to the bottom and was disappointed in myself for not doing my run as clean as I would have liked!

At the top ready to drop other girls scoping there lines behind me

Heli came in with harnesses to get us into the venue of day two

  My brother and his girl friend came to support me which was so cool so we all went off ridding the rest of the mountain for a few hrs then we went back for prize giving and to my surprise I got 1st it was pretty awesome! I was stoked to win my first contest in europe! Thanks La Clusaz for a fun event.

they had two prize givings one at the venue of the event

and the other in La Clusaz town centre :)

having an Interview

Thanks friends for reading and supporting me :)

Laax Switzerland 1 week 2 foot of snow

After having an amazing time in the Bettmer Alp I packed up and trained to Laax to visit my good friends Jah and Rebecca Harris My timing was perfect it was just dumping when i arrived like allot of europe :) What an awesome week I had here thanks to my great hosts I got powder some of the best of my life and also got to ride park that my friend built couldnt ask for more!!

Jah and Rebecca Laax mtn Jah builds the park here and Rebecca manages Boarder world at the bottom they have a great set up what a beautiful place

cool farm houses off the side of a run awesome light and snow

Rebeccas family home they live on the 3rd level mum and dad bottom 2 and grandma up top

blasting off Jahs rock up the back of the house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jah bs 180 with Marsha the dog watching and just a few pow turns down to the house for a drink

more snow snow snow :)

mtns trees and more snow from Laax gondola

Raclette a famous swiss meal with the family Delish :)

Simon Rebecca and Jahs brother in law getting some on the side of the catty

Swiss Pow Pow Powder 2012!!

I had a great new year I spent it with my brother and his partner Vivianne.

We made pizza and drank glu wine its basically mulled wine swiss style then we went out sledding in the Bettmer alp village we had a blast there was so much new snow! We watch fire works celebrating the new year it was fun, pretty mellow as we were  excited for an early start riding powder.

We woke up to an epic day blue bird with 40 cm of new snow what a way to start 2012.

Tossie blasting

dropping

 

 

last run of the funnest day so far in 2012 life is good :)

Christmas in NZ-Canada-Switzerland

Christmas lunch in my family home xxxxx

I had an amazing Christmas spent the day with my family.

Jemma my step sis and I xmas morning

My nephew Will Break dancing on a sugar high

I also spent in on the air plane then arrived in Vancouver on christmas just a stop over, it was stretched out i flew on to Zurich Switzerland where my brother and his partner met me it was now the morning of the 26th over 30 hrs of traveling I felt pretty tired to say the least! We caught a train for 3 hrs to the south of Switzerland to a small village in the mtns accessed by gondola called the Bettmer Alp a very special place Vivian my brothers girl friends dad Gilbert had rented a Chalet here, I am lucky to be able to stay with them. Here are a few pics of this time.

Christmas in Switzerland swiss army knife x2 my present with my name on it thanks toss and vivi

Tossie, Vivianne and Gilbert on the Bettmer Alp

Aster Chalet we are staying top story 2 little windows showing

My bro Tossie and Vivianne with the Altsch glacier behind