Snowfix Extra

08-09 Skis - Lots of pictures from the ISPO in Munich

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:30:36 +0000

So we have just been at the ISPO (huge tradeshow for next seasons gear) in Munich. Like last year here is preview from most of the brands. At the bottom of this post is a download for a load more pictures and be sure to check out the next episode for a full review of the event!

Click on each image for the large version.

4FRNT

Apo - Now do skis!

Atomic

Dynastar

Elan

Faction - These have to be my pick for best new designs!

Fischer

Lib Tech - Technically not skis, these are “Narrow Ass Snowboards!”

Line

Movement

Salomon

Scott

Click here for a load more pictures, and make sure you watch episode 56 for loads more previews!

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Join us on Facebook

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:44:47 +0000

We’ve just added another way you can keep up to date with Snowfix and catch up on the latest videos - if you’ve got a Facebook account (and who doesn’t these days?), hit the link below and add us to your TV shows.

You can leave us messages, watch videos, write reviews and support the show telling your friends about it.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=14177600353

Make sure you join our ‘Page’ and not the group as that’s old news… Though you could join both of course.

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Snow in Morzine!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:48:12 +0000

We’ve just received reports on our advanced newswire (OK, my email) that Morzine, our resort in the French Alps, has had it’s first day of snow! We’d already heard other places like Zurich and several places across Canada and the US have had some decent snow, so looks like we may be in for a good season…

Let us know in the comments if you’ve already had snow in your area. And if you haven’t already, hit the subscribe link on the site to get the latest episodes and updates as soon as they’re released.

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We need your help!!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:21:20 +0000

Guys, one of our viewers Pierre has entered a competition where he can win a customised campervan, which he promises to get branded with Snowfix! We really want him to win and until today he had climbed up to first place. However out of nowhere a new contestant has entered and somehow stolen it!

Please, please, can you all click on his myspace link and then vote for him!!

http://www.myspace.com/pierrecardoso

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Snowbombing 2007

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:22:05 +0000

So unforetunately no episode this week, but for a very good reason! We are partying hard at Snowbombing in Mayrhofen. Lots of action and highlights going to be in next weeks episode, so stay tuned!

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Charlie’s injury

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:39:05 +0000

How I injured myself - unfortunately not as exciting as a ‘groin’ injury could be…

The video makes it look like a pretty lame crash but I can assure you it was quite painful afterwards!

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Candide Invitational 2007

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:39:57 +0000

So, just got back from the Candide Invitation, which ROCKED!

Just an incredible course, the biggest kicker I reckon I’ve ever seen (45m apparently), and some really interesting features. The first day was awesome, changeable weather but some good sunny spells. And then there was a nighttime Jib session, where we saw Candide throwing a corked 810 onto a rail! There was a couple of pretty nasty crashes, but other than that great atmosphere. Candide just wanders around like a god, which I’m starting to think he pretty much is!

Today was a bit of a shame because the weather was shit, really bad visability. So they had to cancel the super kicker again, which meant that noone actually got to hit it, and everything was pretty much done by 3pm. But a great event all in all, make sure you check out Wednesday’s show for the footage, in the meantime here’s a few pics:

photos by Ben Burnett

Candide was the only person I saw attempt this and he just nailed it first time……job done, move on!

Ahh the Octograb….not Gagnier this time, although I think I did see him ripping about.

?!?!? As I said, some pretty cool features!

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Spring-time fun

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:21:55 +0000

Just been at a party over at the Boomerang bar in Les Gets. They filled the bar with snow and had a surfboard as a box and built the snow against a car for a quarterpipe. Oooh the ‘crazy’ things seasonnaires get up to in spring!

Great atmosphere and at 3 euros a pint, we were laughing!

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Snowfix team update

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:43:48 +0000

We have been a little bit off the radar for a while, so we thought we would give you a bit of an update of what we have been up to.

After spending the week in Laax for the BRITS, it was a quick unpack-repack in Morzine and then straight down to Tignes for the Jib-Vid comp.

Johno was in the Red Bull team with James Carr and John Ludvigsen and I (Tim) entered a Snowfix team with Robbie Emmanuel and Josh Wolf.

The filming day was a bit tricky because it was a fairly stormy up in the park and subsequently the kickers were closed. However the organisers decided to open the whole mountain so that gave us a load more options.
Filming was followed by a solid night of editing (not much different to the usual Tuesday in Snowfix HQ!), tapes were in at midday the following day and so we managed to get some riding in the sunshine.

That night all the films are judged by the other teams, I have to say I was amazed (and slightly intimidated) by the high level of the videos.

My entry was inspired by the recent Tenacious D film (music written and performed by Josh), and to be honest should probably carry an 18 rating, but here it is:

Johno and his team made an awesome vid (see this weeks show) and won 750 euros and a Sony VAIO laptop for each team member! I had actually helped Johno with his script so he then made it his mission to get me well and truely wasted, which he managed with great success!

The following four days were a bit of a blur, but I do know I continued to party in both Val d’Isere and Chamonix and met our competition winner Tom (who was a bloody good egg!).

Finally now I’m back in Morzine and should really be catching up on some sleep, but its been snowing again and I reckon there is powder to be found so the mountain is calling, hope you enjoy this weeks show!

Laterz!

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No episode this week…but the BRITS is awesome!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:48:53 +0000

As we explained on the show, there will be no Snowfix this week because we are over at the British championships in Laax.

The sun is shining here and the riding is nautious! We have already seen the skiing halfpipe and slopestyle and the boardcross and snowboard big air.

We are going to have an action packed BRITS special for the next episode but until then you can watch all the action as it happens at whiteriders.tv.

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Animal Snowboard Camp Competition UPDATED!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:16:06 +0000

Yes, it’s true! You are just a few clicks away from being in with a chance of winning and all-inclusive trip of a lifetime.

The Animal Snowboard Camp is held in Chamonix on the 18th - 25th March 2007.

The prize includes; flights, transfers from Geneva, full-board, liftpasses AND the training from Animal pro-riders Johno Verity, Dom Harrington, Ewan Wallace and Kate Foster.

To enter all you need is to be of an intermediate level (linking turns), 18 or over and able to answer the following question:

Which of the Animal pro-riders is the current British halfpipe champion?

Johno Verity
Dom Harrington
Ewan Wallace

NOTE: ENTRY FORMAT HAS BEEN UPDATED
Enter by clicking here

Good Luck!

Prize does not include insurance or equipment.

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The poles debate!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:47:49 +0000

CHARLIE: We found this video recently of Tom Wallisch a 4FRNT skis rider, in a video segment without poles. I think it just looks a lot less clumsy, and more laid-back. Check it out:

TIM: Well….this is where I’m supposed to argue the case for poles. Watch the show to see loads of examples of nausious riding with them. I think I might just show this video…..you’ll get the point!

What do you guys reckon??

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Rain!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:23:15 +0000

We’re in February, which should be the month for snow in the Alps, but it poured with rain this morning! We’re walking around the apartment in T-shirts and shorts without the heating on!

People say we won’t have snow as we know it in 20 years - I’m worried it’ll be much sooner…

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07-08 Season Skis

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:16:13 +0000

So as promised on the show, here are some more of next seasons ski designs. Personally I think they are looking really sick this year, so much better than last year:

4FRNT (Insanely cool designs!)

Amplid

Armada AR6

Dynastar (Big debate seems to be going on about the troublemakers, a lot of people dissing them. I personally quite like them.)

Faction (Same graphics as last year, but word on the piste is they’re gonna include a 175cm 112mm next year!)

Fischer (You can’t really tell from the picture, but the tip of the ski has super-raised corners and the tail has a fin! Like a surfboard.)

Head

Line

Movement

Rossignol

Salomon (Possibly the first Salomons ever that I am a fan of! Hooray!)

Volkl (Probably my favourites, they are rad!)

These are just my favourites from each of the main companies, if you want to see more then hit this link. It’s actually a russian site but it seems to have them all!

Let me know what you think of this years selection, and which are your favourites?

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It was Jonno Verity’s fault!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:57:41 +0000

Clearly there should be some sort of hazard/caution/safety warning on Jonno’s Mountain Tips!

It has been snowing quite a lot this evening in Morzine! I had just dropped off a friend up towards Avoriaz (without snowchains) and on the way home decided to attempt some ‘tips’ on getting out of control!

Specifically it was the half-handbrake-turn-slide that sent me careering into a ditch!!!

So before we get sued…

####WARNING! ATTEMPT ALL TIP/TRICKS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!####

P.S. Thankyou to random Tom in the white van for pulling us out! I’m off to get some snowchains! Laters!

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400km for a halfpipe!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:45:14 +0000

So we have a new feature in the pipeline (excuse the pun!), which is basically a video diary with Dan Wakeham. All about the highs and lows of being a pro-snowboarder, and a glimpse into his day-to-day halfpipe training.

Today we went all the way to Bardonecchia to ride the halfpipe (the same pipe as the 2006 olympics) and to get some helmet cam footage of Dan. We set off on the 3hr journey at 8am and, due to our van getting lost in the daytime, had to wait till 8pm to return home!

Nonetheless it was well worth it, we got some sick footage, rode a really nice pipe and got to see Dan ripping in the flesh, which was worth it alone!

Just as a little teaser, check out this cab 900!

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Just… woah!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:46:56 +0000

This is the Eiger, it is probably one of Switzerland’s most extreme mountains!

This is some nut-cases from ‘Acro-base’ making the first ever ski-gliding (speed-flying) descent of the Eiger!!

If you don’t think it’s THAT extreme at first….wait till he pops off the north face!

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Jools confesses to Gian Simmen

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:50:29 +0000

After years of keeping it buried deep down, Jools finally tells Gian Simmen how she feels about him!

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Ferrel’s Bush talks global warming

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:11:15 +0000

There are many good impersonations of Dubya but Will does one of the best!

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Winter X Games, all the footage!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:48:19 +0000

If the short highlights on the last episode weren’t enough for you, you can check out the full 1hr44min highlights of this year’s winter X games here:

Woohoo!

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Oneill Pro-freestyle After Party

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:48:32 +0000

For purely journalistic purposes we decided to head to the riders lounge for the after party of the comp this week, we also heard there was free booze!

It was pretty cool, although fairly laidback. Also it seemed all the riders had disappeared by 10 so we didn’t hang around all that long.

Just enough time to peruse the buffet and remind our bodies what vegetables were!

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Crazy flips

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:55:21 +0000

Imagine what this guy could do on a pair of skis…

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Episode 30

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:39:56 +0000

This week the O’neill profreestyle competition is on in Avoriaz. So as soon as we had filmed the links we headed up there to get some interviews. As well as Freddy, on this weeks ep, we managed to get another four interviews with some pretty big names (we’ll keep it a surprise!).

However! We also discovered if we were going to be hanging out in riders lounges at these competitions, we are going to have to seriously work on our table-football skills!

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Episode 29 - Do bears hit their shin in the woods?

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:35:19 +0000

As has happened before, we didn’t confirm Emily till just a few days before the episode was filmed. She lives in Chamonix, so we were back over there in the woods.

Interestingly, we didn’t decide on either the couch surfing or the burp contest until we were actually sat down and filming. In a trial run of the ‘couch surf’, I actually caught my shins on the sofa as I jumped over! This not only caused great pain to my already fucked up, skier shins. It also broke the sofa!! Oops!

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The wheelchair backflip

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:08:48 +0000

Aaron Fotheringham rides his wheelchair harder than most people ride their boards. This is some wicked and inspiring footage:

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Finally!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:53:16 +0000

Well the snow has finally come! Even down in Morzine now, as we’re inside editing episode 28, the beautiful white stuff is falling outside! It’s not very heavy at the moment, but hopefully higher up into the mountains it’ll be dumping, and it’s apparently snowing all over Europe. If it lasts for a while we may even be able to hit the powder tomorrow morning after releasing #28 to the world…

Well, back to work - gotta get this finished!

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The blue screen of death!!!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:08:51 +0000

I’ve been having some laptop issues of late! Why is it every time you think its all sorted, it will wait till I’m at my most vulnerable (e.g. something 99% downloaded) and then hit me with the blue screen of death!

Anybody know what to do about a BAD_POOL_HEADER?? And I mean the geek version, not when your mate mis-cues it and hits you in the face!

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An Inconvenient Truth

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:09:42 +0000

Have you seen the film? We watched it the other night, and although thought some of it was a bit exaggerated, decided that we need to stop whinging about the lack of snow and try and do something about it!

Would anyone be into a very short weekly fact, if it was interesting and actually useful, on how we can actively help save the snow?

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Episode 27

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:07:21 +0000

What can we say, Goldie Lookin’ Chain are officially on another planet! And I wanna go there!
That was the longest interview yet and we had to cut sooo many funny stories out because once you get those guys started they literally don’t stop!

Two stories I would like to have included:

The full description of Misty’s Christmas eve when he shat himself and broke two fingers!
And the one about the time the wheel fell off their tour bus, whilst they were driving, and cut a cow in half!

Now you probably wouldn’t believe these stories were true, until you meet them, and then you wonder what they were missing out?!That was filmed in the Dragon Lodge, a wicked welsh snowboarding chalet in Tignes, so we popped over to Val again that evening to see the crew.

Had an interesting journey back, resulting in me accidentally reversing the car onto a small mound and getting stuck with just 1 wheel touching the floor! Oops!

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Snooooooow!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:06:42 +0000

As you could see in episode 26, we finally received the snow we had been waiting for and finally got to go and properly check out this resort! It’s siiiiiick, bit weird not knowing our way around. Managed to find loads of powder stashes (things clearly don’t get tracked out half as quick as they do in Val). And even though we were blindly going into unknown terrain, 9 times out of 10 we didn’t end up in a potentially life-threatening situation! Which was nice!

We did get a bit over enthusiastic one day and missed our last lifts home from Chatel, in Switzerland!! Oooooh, that was an expensive taxi!

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Episode 26

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:06:02 +0000

Following meeting Jenny on new year’s eve, she kindly agreed to be on the show at quite last minute. This was a really fun ep to film because it was dumping down down during the links, and when we ran off at the end we did go stright up the hill!

However the snow caused a bit of moisture inside the lens which slightly fogged up one of the angles for the interview. Still worth it for the riding though!

Loads of content for this ep so had to skip eds top 3 for another week.

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2007!!!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:04:30 +0000

We had a couple of friends over for New Year’s and had heard that the place to be was this hotel slightly out of town. However, we had also heard that it was ticket only and totally sold out.

Undeterred we put our blagging hats on and went on down. We decided that if we were to make some sort of feature of the night for the show they would surely let us in, hence the top 5 hangover cures

That evening turned out to be a bit of a who’s who of UK snowboarding and managed to sort out most of our guests for the season!

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Free stuff

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:05:19 +0000

One of the perks of doing what we do is receiving the odd packs of free stuff to wear/give away as prizes. As a totally unrelated note, can I just say, if you’re thinking about buying new goggles you can’t go wrong with either Oakley or Dragon!

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Episode 25

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:00:22 +0000

We filmed this one outside the apartment again, but this time with the sofa! We instantly knew this would be the best format, however by the time we had got everything set up we were racing the sun to get the links done.

The interview was really easy because Tim Warwood is officially a very funny guy! The very kind folk at the Park (a snowboard shop in Morzine) let us film in there and the interview literally could have been 20 minutes long and still watchable. However we had to edit it down.

Mr. Warwood would like to add, for the record, that he is not a chauvinistic pig, even though he feels he might have come across that way!

He then went on to say ‘You can’t say anything these days with all these fucking whining feminists about!’ (The final statement was made up.)

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Shoe golf instructional video!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:00:32 +0000

As discussed on the show, here is the Shoe Golf instructional video. It is the definitive guide to the worlds fastest growing sport (probably!).

Tim Warwood would like to add: !!!!!!!THE VIDEO IS FOR FUN. THE HAIR IS AN IN-BETWEEN STYLE. AND MY VOICE GOES HIGH AT THE END FOR COMEDY VALUE. I’M NOT BEING SERIOUS!!!!!

SHOE GOLF Instructional Video

Add to My Profile | More Videos

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Val d’Isere

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:58:50 +0000

To celebrate getting the first show out we decided to pop back to Val d’Isere (where we have been based for a couple of seasons) to catch up with friends. It was actually Charlie’s first day on the hill so that was cool, and saw tonnes of guys from last year, so had an amazing time!

Big up Neil! Your blagging skills are second to none, how you got that many people into Dick’s Tea bar for free is beyond me!

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Episode 24

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:57:53 +0000

The official beginning of the Snowfix season starts here! And a cool start it was, well actually it was fooking freezing! We went to film up in Avoriaz so we could get some snow in the background.

And it actually started snowing, which was ace but made it soooo cold! We ended up having to find some quiet indoors to film the interview because we were worried that Jools was about to drop dead from hypothermia!

The upload for the episode was pretty interesting as well because we were still waiting for the internet to be connected, and because it was quite late the only place we could upload was in a bar in town.

However the rule is internet is free as long as you buy drinks! It took about 5 hours to get all the upload website etc. done so by the time we left we were druuuuuuuunk!

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Episode 23

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:54:40 +0000

So Charlie has arrived in resort so we decided to put out an episode before the official Extreme channel association began to kind of introduce Jools. Just filmed it out the back of the apartment, and actually really pleased with the feel of the three of us, gonna be a good season!

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Interview on Podcast 411

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:56:56 +0000

About a month before we came out to resort we were invited to be guests on another podcast, about podcasts, called Podcast 411. It’s all a little bit geeky, and not massively snow related. However it was released this week, so if you fancy checking it out, just follow this link:

Charlie & Tim’s Snowfix interview on Podcast 411

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HO! HO! HO!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:59:37 +0000

So we wanted to get an episode out on Boxing day and subsequently spent most of christmas editing! Still managed to get into the spirit of things (see pic)!

A fairly random evening followed, we went out for a Christmas dinner, and randomly that evening the girl waiting out table got fired! So she came out on the piss with us to drown them! Random evenings are always fun!

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Weather map

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:54:39 +0000

Been building the weather map, which has been quite cool. Cleverly used a projector with a wide-angle lens taped on to trace the map onto the board and then been painting it.

Used some changing rooms inspired dry-brushing to texture it! Actually I’ll shut up now, thats starting to sound a bit gay!

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Snow and skiing!

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:53:08 +0000

Had some snow the other day and so everywhere is starting to look white (like it should be!). And finally go to do a little bit of riding! Johno and Jools have been staying in the apartment helping me sort things out and we decided to take it in turns to drive up the hill and do a bit of riding.

Ok so it was about 200yds of crust but it was so much fun! Nothing like getting your skis on to clear your head!

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All by myself…

snowfix@negativegravity.co.uk (www.snowfix.tv) — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:50:21 +0000

I came out to resort first to get things set up. One job being to be around for when the phone dude gets here to connect us.

However because the phone company was French, the dude just didn’t come. Now this wouldn’t have been too much of a problem except….they told us that he might arrive at any time between 9-6.

I only did a little shop when I got here, just some bread, ham and 800g of brie. The bread and ham disappeared ages ago and so for the last two days I’ve been eating brie on plate!

Worked out quite well in the end because by the time I was able to leave and get into town I had such a serious case of cabin fever I had become a weird talking machine. I was quite excited about the prospect of ‘other people’ and so have met loads of cool peeps. Starting to really like Morzine!