Powder

Yesterday we woke up at 7 am already. I don't know why but for some reason I sleep really well here, see good dreams and always wake up in good mood.

Anyway, after some chilling hours we took the cable car at 11. Weather was really bad up at Crap Sogn Gion: wind was about 50 km/h, blizzard, flatlight... BUT! Perfect for powder runs down to Laax. It was such a great feeling to surf the snow! However, I still have uncertain feelings for powder when I get stuck... :)

Some photos of Friday:

No Name Bar. Good luck with shoveling the snow!

There's so much snow that they need to make even more, perfect!

That's a buddy photo of me and Reelika (I'm the right one).

After the mountain we rested a bit and then went to Tarek's place, played poker again. There was also some DJ's playing at Riders Palace so I and Reelika had some beers and chilled there for a couple of hours. Our favorite mix by DJ Jerez:
 CocaiNE-Mix by Dj Jerez

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One day before the powder day we finally decided to go to babypark, hit some boxes, kickers. The best part of parks are button lifts! Perfect for training the surviving muscles and give some extra pressure to your knees. :)

Riho was our own personal photographer because he broke his hand and is out for some time:

That's Crap Sogn Gion.

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Yesterday I went through the videos I've liked on Vimeo. Found some good old ones...

Wish Red Gerard was my little brother, he's so cool little kid:

And finally, good old Sumoboarding:

Alp Dado

This is my playground for this winter:

The lifts opened last Saturday so now we've been up almost every day. Snow conditions are pretty poor, luckily it's cold up on 2000m so snow is not melting. Vorab glacier is still closed (because of the wind) but I know that there's a lot of snow... It's like a hidden beauty, playing silly games with us.

Last saturday we went to Freestyle Academy, which is right behind our house. It's so so so cool place. They have trampolines, foam pits, slackline, snowflex, climbing wall, skate ramps... Exactly the right place for me! I have way too much energy. After a long day on the mountain and Freestyle Academy we went to Tarek's place in Laax Dorf. He's really funny guy, so much fun. He cooked some food and later we played poker. Long day but a good one!

Anyway, our holidays are almost over. I start working on 20th of December so I have less than a week to ride, eat, sleep (repeat)...

Ciao!

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"Never be too old to be chillin' at the playground."
Loitering - Mac Miller

Dodge & Fuski - Python

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

Chur

This morning we decided to go to a bigger town called Chur. It's about 25 min drive from Laax. Went to some skate/snowboard stores and did some shopping. First place was Carving and we ended up drinking coffee with the shop owner. Cute little place! haha At Beach-Mountain shop we saw a guy who was working at Boarders World (Rocksresort) last year. He was chill, let me to open one window from his DC candy calendar. Nom nom.

Tonight there's Zecrü movie "Heartbeats" premier at Riders Palace so we're going to see it.
Tomorrow - shredding!

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Third Chapter released their first music video. I absolutely like it:

And my favorite skate video by those Aussie guys:

Crap Sogn Gion

This morning we went up to Crap Sogn Gion (2220m). Actually, mountain was still closed but as staff members we got a permission to go up by cable cars. Weather was still windy, 72 km/h up on the Vorab glacier, but a bit better at Crap. Good news is that lower part of the mountain will be opened on Saturday. Yay!

No wonder why Burton European Open was postponed... This should the best halfpipe in Europe, perfectly shaped:

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Random is good, I like it:

To Lumi

Dear Snow,

I love you.

Mariell

Woke up this morning and it was still snowing - so good! Glacier was closed so Reelika and I went swimming. There's a nice fitness centre in Laax and it's not far, about 20 min walk from our home.

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Shuffled my iTunes a bit:

Lemaitre - Strobes Pt. 2

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home

Pretty Lights - Finally Moving

Röyksopp - Eple

Magnetic Man - Getting Nowhere ft. John Legend

Miike Snow - Animal (Peter Bjorn and John Remix)

Eliza Doolittle - Money Box (Jamie xx Remix)

Wax Tailor - Sit & Listen

Dirty Heads - Neighborhood

M.I.A. - Internet Connection (Flux Pavilion Remix)

Wrong Effin' House Bruv - Phoxache

Shorterz & Enigma - Rag Doll [feat. Little Palm]