La Grave, France Jan 2003
We started snowboarding in February 1994 where we tried it for a half
day in Beitostølen, Norway. Frederik got his own board when he
moved to Boise and has since been practicing the art during the winter
over there. Mathias returned to Norway in February 1995 and practiced
for three days. The last day was spent trying making forward somersaults,
strongly inspired by some of the Norwegian guides up there who was pretty
cool at snowboarding. I didn't complete the somersaults but landed on
my head, back and stomach instead. A week after - in France - I got my
own snowboard, and I stayed in Chamonix a month planning to ski and snowboard.
But after a while I was doing only snowboarding. You can make all sorts
of jumps and turns on snowboards which would never be possible on skis.
In the end I did complete my forward somersault and now both Fred and
I try to fit in trips to France and USA riding through the deep powder
snow.
In the beginning of the 2001 season I switched to a Swell
Panik  board which
is the one you see sticking out from my back
on the photo on the left. It's 185 cm long, pointy nose and a swallow
style tale. It's superb in powder
Snowboarding stories & pictures:
Free Riding in Chamonix & La Grave
January 2000
Mathias went away for a week to check out the powder in Chamonix and La
Grave. Great trip together with the skiers Jesper Ritzau and Lars Klammer.
No trip report. No photos. But we have an fully edited
! (beware - it's 9 megabytes and it might not be worth the download.
But if you have a fast connection - go for it!)
Val d'Isere 1997
In January 1997 Mathias went to Val d'Isere for the second time with a
bunch of old friends from Denmark. [Read more...]
Chamonix (20-23th of Dec 96)
We only had three days as the following days was ear marked for Christmas
purposes. There where a lot of nice offpiste riding with only two interesting
epics. First one was when Fred and I found a hill side completely left
alone for us to be the first one to make our marks on. Of we go each concentrating
on our own stuff but suddenly we crash pretty seriously into each other.
Nothing major happened but we felt pretty ridiculous. The second event
was when I stopped 30 cm from an edge of a 20 m drop with a lot of nasty
rock and ice. I walked slowly back and survived. In general the visibility
was crap (good old Chamonix).
2 months in the Alps.
Chamonix, Val d'Isere, La Grave. Click here to
read the trip report (in Danish  ).
 The
Broken Thumb
One day Mathias went to the Black Mountains to snowboard with some
guys from Bristol - unfortunately the snow was gone, so we decided
to go to the Gloucester Ski Center where I then broke
my thumb
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