*above is a rough lil’ vid I’ve uploaded to facebook of clips from the trip I took on the Kodak Zi8.

I (Chris) finally got some more snowboarding in this year at Risoul/Vars in the french alps. It was a last minute decision to go for 6 days of boarding & partying with the fanatics crew from Boxing Day onwards. Accompanied by my younger bro Andrew, his partner Bex and our mutual friend Bryce. We had a pretty mint little apartment right up the hill next to the lifts and there was something to do (mostly drinking) organised everynight as well as of New Years of course! We had a some bluebird powder days so it was smiles all round apart from a couple complete white-out days.

All in all it was a pretty decent mountain, it didn’t “wow” me but hey any snowboarding is better than none. For anyone considering Risoul for some Skiing or boarding make sure you head over to Vars at some stage, as we found the skiing and boarding (& snow) to be better over there, it takes roughly 25 minutes to get there on the lifts.