Homeward bound

Late train sunday back to oslo

Stevo

(in my jacket...was tempted to claim it was me...but you can only stretch the truth so far)

Second attempt

Rail 1: Glen 1

First attempt

Rail 1: Glen 0

The enemy

this is the rail....and my first attempt at a grown up proper rail... and scared the living bejeez out of me!

Hytte

Beetle-mania

The good thing about Geilo is the park is really good...this is stevo in a mid action shot going over a beetle, with alistair at the wheel. (it looks like a static shot, but really, this was in mid action)

More Geilo

Fun bag!

perhaps the most scariest and most fun thing in the world! now, im a relative beginner to snow boarding, and am admittedly im ok, but not brilliant.
we had heard rumours of this big inflatable bag on a big jump, and our eyes lit up when we saw it. its basically pain and consequence free jumps. now the biggest jump ive ever done, was about 3 inches off the ground last year (it felt like 3 feet, but on video reflection...it was pathetic, thanks kat).
my legs were actually shaking with fear before my first attempt, so the only thing to do is to crank up the ipod to full volume and go for it (Monster by The Automatic in this case). the first attempt was hilarious, having no clue what to do i flew up the ramp, and (now i understand, wrongly) leant back, and did half a back flip and landed on my head. the second attempt (from the photo) was much better....and got better as the day went on...still, scared the life out of me, but sooo much fun!

Geilo part deux

Just been flicking back through pervious posts...and seems to be a boring amount of snow, mountain and boarding posts...well...as my time seems to be spent in the office, in an airport, in a homogenous hotel, at home, or boarding..the snowy pics are really the only interesting thing i do at the mo.

after 2 weeks in the uk, i went up to Geilo again for a weekend of log cabins, and snow. was clever enough to go on the train this time, AND had the sunday as well. again we had incredible weather, clear blue skies and sun.

saturday morning was not massive fun as it was extremely icy on the slopes...but it kinda got better once the sun climbed over the mountain

Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!!

Sunday i played my first ever Nintendo Wii. Now i'm usually a playstation boy, but had sooo much fun on the Wii, firstly on sunday mornimg at my house with ryan and lucy, then all afternoon at the Betts's. The Betts's are lovely lovely people. They are the guitarist in Weeble's family...but always look after me like their own, and i always make it over there when im back. so i spent a lovely afternoon getting fed sunday lunch, chatting and playing the Wii...such a lovely day, and was gutted to have to leave to drive back down to Bristol...actually at amsterdam airport on the way back to oslo, i bought a Wii for myself

Boys

members of Weeble and Vitamin 'X' (inc Chris, aka Dave Grohl, who is the spitting image of 'the count' from sesame street...i kid you not)

Crag

Crag is hardcore through and through and would die for the band....he has even now got a large tattoo of the band logo on his arm! top top man!

Saturday night

Met up with a few mates in our usual haunt Junktion 7, which is actually owned by Tami's sister, and is the best rock music venue in town, and a great night out. Was so cool to see mates again....and again vowed not to leave it so long next time

the gig poster is a gig for Weeble (of which i am still in...despite the distance), and will probably be my next gig i reckon...hopefully

Nottingham

As i was working in the uk for 2 weeks, i decided to take a visit back to nottingham to see a few mates n stuff...was a really nice time and first time ive been back since august, so was well over due...still...didnt see half the people i wanted to

Drive home

uuuuuunfortunately....despite the amazing conditions on the sunday, i had to drive back to olso to catch a flight to the uk for work...was so so gutted, putting up with blizzards on the saturday and missing the sun and blue skies on sunday....was not a happy chappy. photos from the drive home

Ummm...

took an absolute age to get this thing out

Thingy

This phenomenon actually has a name i forget, its where the moisture in the air freezes and although this picture doesnt do it jutice, it looks stunning

Sunday sunday

beautiful conditions on sunday morning, clear blue skies, and the moon still up

Back at the ranch...

Apres ski

The slopes close at around 4pm, then its off to Dr Homes bar for some apres ski....unfortunately i got a little excited about doing my first 'rainbow rail' and was pretty merry by 6pm!