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Trios Valées, France, 8-15 March 2014

Posted on 17th March 201418th March 2015

The week didn’t start well with a huge delay at Leeds Bradford airport. The plan was to transfer via helicopter as last year, then snowboard down to our chalet. 4 hours sitting on the plane and a diversion to Grenoble instead of Chambrey meant we didn’t arrive at the chalet till 11 at night. That […]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alps, France, holiday, Meribel, Snowboard, travel, trip

Highest Zip Slide in Europe

Posted on 16th March 201416th September 2014

Taking the zip slide above Val Thorens in the Three Valleys. Starting at the top of the chairlift “Bouchet” at 3,230m and traveling to Val Thorens at 3,000m on a 1,300m long zip line, you descend up to 250 metres above the resort’s glacier at up to 100 kph. Apologies for filming my gloved hand […]

Posted in Snowboarding, TravelTagged France, holiday, travel, Zip line, zip slide

Le Praz Video

Posted on 17th December 201316th May 2014

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Posted in Snowboarding, Travel, VideoTagged Alps, ContourHD, France, holiday, Le Praz, powder, Snowboard, travel

July Arran Cycle

Posted on 14th September 201216th September 2014

Two days cycling and camping around Arran. Some photos below also.

Posted in Outdoors, Travel, VideoTagged Arran, Bike, camping, Cycle, Scotland, travel, trip, video

Chamonix Trip in February

Posted on 28th April 201216th September 2014

I didn’t use my ContourHD nearly enough and only took POV stuff. Will definitely make more use of it in the future. Presuming there is one…

Posted in Snowboarding, Travel, VideoTagged Chamonix, ContourHD, Europe, France, Snowboard, travel, video

Western Isles 2010 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Posted on 31st January 20119th May 2014

Here is the full collection of images from my Summer cycle trip to the Western Isles. Western_Isles_2010_ 1 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Posted in Photography, Travel, UncategorizedTagged Bike, Cycle, flickr, Hebrides, photos, travel, Western Isles

Crawford’s Stag do 1-4 August 2008

Posted on 10th August 200810th May 2014

Easy Jet flight from Glasgow on the Friday to Berlin. On arrival we had some beers at the hostel then moved on to the beer festival for real. Over a mile of tents hosted beers from around the world and over the next three days we just about covered the whole lot. On the last […]

Posted in Travel, UncategorizedTagged Berlin, Germany, stag, travel, wedding

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