for all yo fella's who want to know what i'm up to here's an email i sent to the olds;
i wish i could could say i haven't written for ages cos i've been busy working but really i've had too much spare time and just been sleeping too much, not much else to do in soelden but drink and go snowboarding, so heres an average and dull day in the life of nickj:
wake at 6 or 7 cos its a little lighter than dark, hit play on itunes or dvd player, look out window to check weather (still in bed) yip i can see the mountains its sweet lets go/f*ck its snowing, tree runs are on!!! dvd ends/itunes puts shi*te song on, roll outta my tiny cot like bed which i have 2 of?! pour a bowl of muesli and think about how it takes too long to put snowboard gear on, by 9 i usually have all my gear on, made a small lunch loaded my pack with the toys for a day in the hill. about now i walk out of the house to the elevator and ride to the ground-floor, cross the road and hop on the gaislachkogl gondola, this thing take ya from 1300m to just over 3000m in 10-15 min! from here its a quick warm up on 1000m of vert to a 6 seater chair which pulls you back up to 2700m, a short ride to another chair gets you to the goldengate gondola which travels across a hillside to the glacier ski area, another gondola scoops you up from the base of the glacier to about 3300 meters, so by now an hour has passed and i have one last short run left to get to the park and start work, to ride from the ridge-line where the top station to the park is is impossibly steep so the bloody euro's put the trail down the easy side of the mountain then made a tunnel thru the ridge to the next glacier on the sunny south side (where the park is at present) which i ride thru, and pop out about 400m ride from the park, meet up with locals and lap the park and glacier until 230 when the sun sinks behind the hills and at 3000m it gets f*cken cold, so with a short chair back to the top of the first glacier we ride down back to the goldengate gondola take a second chair to the winter ski area of giggihoch, home of the busiest slope in europe, and the park when we get some more snow. from here we either drink some beers or start the decent into town, 1500 meters of it, just like triple treat at TC but in the trees and way longer! just classic as we zoom past crazy euro steez, one pieces and the like, with so many little hits on the trail, we must be an intimidating sight, train of xxl riders launching off any roll in sight weaving thru shaky legged punters! all comes back to haunt you when the trail emerges by an apres ski bar, oompa loompa music blaring away and drunk ski holiday participants fresh off the slopes chugging the dearest drinks on earth! which of course is countered by the cheapest in a supermarket 100m down the road! pick up some of the said beer or go annoy mates in the sport shops then its off home, now and then my boss and his girlfriend drag me into a bar and we drink til late, but mainly its back to the parkhaus, yes my flat is the top floor of the parking garage! here i eat dinner, rice based cos I'm cheap! and goto bed by 8 cos i've got everything done!
today we looked at the area where we will put the park and thought of different ways to use the land we have, hope to get to use some land lower down which will give us 3 large jumps in a line, well its now friday night, ill drink a few beers here then head to one of the many bars in town and see what is happening, i would say I'm gunna go and pick up but i loose interest when the girls blow cigarette smoke in my face with every sentence!
all goin well i start shaping on the glacier on sunday, and we'll get more snow to move the park just after new years
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