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Note to myself – never leave purchasing travel tickets too late. A week ago i found myself in Austria needing to get back to England with no travel ticket purchased. In the end the only financially feasible method was by bus which as a result has left me feeling horrible for a week. 

Had a fun time at the Pleasurejam over on the Dachstein Glacier but unfortunately left on sunday, just as the blue skies came out. Here’s a little experimental image that i definitely want to shoot again. Foggy conditions were limiting what to shoot on the qualification day, i can’t wait to do something similar but on a clearer day.

A filmers view

Short and sweet today. Just back at home now getting over this cold. If time and money allows i may make it over to the Roxy Chicken Jam but if not this will be the last riding of the year. Back on the snow in January.

I’ve just spent the last week up at snowpark for the Burton Open. The weather played its part as we had cloud, fog, freezing rain and pretty much all other types of bad weather. My camera decided to start failing me on the final day of competition which bumped the stress levels up but with the sun coming out on the last runs of the day, everything came together to get some wicked shots. 

Mikkel Bang dominated the slopestyle on Friday with his awesome run including a switch back 900 over the larger of the kickers. Kazuhiro kokubo, one of the Burton global team stepped up to take out the halfpipe final on Saturday but it was Daisuke Murakami who came out with the best trick with a frontside 1080 tailgrab. On the womens front it was all about one girl; jamie Anderson. She won the slopestyle on friday and the halfpipe on saturday – basically killed it. 

Apart from my camera worries on the last day, i had a great time shooting the contest overall. One of my photos made it into one of the New Zealand sunday papers which was a nice finish to the very long and tiring week.