Spain Story
Written by Clayton Larsen
Robjn Taylor is gonna hate me for starting the story like this because every snowboard trip story does, but… When I was first told about a trip to Spain my first reaction, and I think it’s shared by many, was “ there’s places to ride in Spain?”. So not really knowing what to expect I headed off with, Brendan Keenan, Andrew Geeves, Ryan Tiene, Chris Rasman, John Scarth documenting it photographically and Gerhard Gross organizing and writing the story for Snowboard Canada. After a long flight with many delays, a game of rental van tetras with our bags, a long drive on the skinniest and most windy road where rules didn’t seem to apply, we arrived in Baqueria Beret. I was quick to realize two things; there were massive resorts to ride and beer was 45 euro cents a can! We met up with the Spain DC team manager Hugo Morales and an Argentinean filmer Martin and they gave us a tour of the resort. They were having a bad snow year so we couldn’t take full advantage for the vast terrain but the riders got creative and wewere able to get some great stuff. We were about to leave Spain and go to Andorra in search of snow when the manager of the local bar, Pacha’s, said they were going to get a lot of snow over night. To be honest I didn’t believe him but sure enough when we woke up it was dumping, so we hit the streets. We were able to ride through the streets of the village we stayed in, where some buildings dated back to the 1700’s. After about two weeks of traveling and riding the resorts, we were happy with the amount of footage and photos we had compiled, so we headed to Barcelona. We spent a couple days there skating some famous spots and partying like the loud obnoxious tourists we were. Spaghette!
one of our connections was in Frankfurt where they have a bio dome and grow giant grass… and they sell beer in there too
Frankfurt Airport… when in Germany
The village we stayed in before it snowed
The church in the village
Tiene and Rasman hanging at the damn
All we ate were these pig legs… one at each meal
After filling up on pig leg we checked out the local bar were things don’t really get going till about 5am… seriously
Tiene is just stoked to be here man
Brendan Getting X on the toboggan
Geeves getting into the Euro Style
Shreddin the village
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