Park days

Its been a while since our last update since its all been park skiing recently so it takes a while to have any decent material. The weather has been amazing, it was 13 degrees today, unfortunately this means the snow is melting quickly and the lower runs are getting slushy. Temperatures are forecast to drop again on Monday, and finally some snow is meant to be arriving, but we won't hold our breath as the forecast tends to diminish day by day.

We have just had the busiest weekends of the season for our chalet, so its downhill from here (if there was any uphill?) And the pistes should quieten down again until Easter, which will be nice as it has been mayhem recently.

The park is still being improved, with new features arriving every so often, creating a nice bit of variety, and a nice change from last year. Yesterday they added a wall ride and an angled box, and there are still a few features sitting at the side waiting to be put into place. I have created another mini edit of the last few days in the park, enjoy!

Mini Park edit from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Platjen

Its been a while since we last posted, as I have had some problems uploading our latest video. Its February now and its starting to get busy (lots of obstacles) we have been skiing pretty regularly but its been very cold recently, last week it was -22 at mid level, so lots of layers have been going on. 2 weeks ago was our last bit of snow, and we headed up Platjen where there was some lovely tree skiing to be done. I have created a little edit of our adventures, it was pretty tight and steep in places but the snow was surprisingly nice considering how little had fallen. Just got in from today where we have been skiing rails most of the day, they have extended the park putting in a few new rails and boxes, so you can hit quite a few features one after the other now, big improvement from the start of the season! I landed 540's which I'm pleased about as I couldn't manage it last year, Jamie has been landing 3's and completing a few rails as well, I will create a new park edit soon, once we have had a few sunny days, but for now enjoy our tree skiing edit!

Visiting Dignitaries

Mark and Gary came out this week and were pretty unlucky with the weather, but fortunately their last day was probably one of the nicest so far. We skied around with them for the last couple of days, nice to get away from the park for a few laps. Yesterday we also managed to find a bit of pretty nice powder, surprising since its been so long since it last snowed, I wore the gopro facing backwards for the first time, and I think it came out pretty well!

Finding powder from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Mark the Milk Tray Man from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Days off

We have taken the last 3 days off to try and recover from various injuries, unfortunately it hasn't worked yet, so we went up for a few runs today and my heel is still too ruined for any proper skiing. Fortunately my injury (well the final nail in the coffin) was caught on video, enjoy!

How not to speed check from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Doing some jumps

The weather has been brilliant recently, sun everyday, so we have been hitting the park quite a lot. I stepped up and managed to do some 360's off the biggest jumps in the park and Jamie did his first ever 360, exciting times! Also we went sledging today on the dedicated sledge run, which I think is about 6km's long, so that was unbelievably fun of course. The chair for the park was shut because of wind... I created a new mini edit today.

Mini edit 2 from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Down Days

So I haven't blogged in a while due to non events or poor weather. There have been a lot of days recently where the mountain has been shut, mainly because of wind, but today it was shut most the day due to avalanche risk. Its been a bad week for holiday goers that's all I know. Since the mountain was shut we tried to do a little bit of urban, hitting some stuff in the skate park and we built a wall ride, which turned out pretty well. The weather finally cleared up so we went over to Saas Almagell again, as it had been snowing so the trees would have been sweet. Unfortunately, on the net it said it was all open, but we got there and everything was shut so we hit up the nursery slopes! This did end up with everyone getting a lot more hurt than a normal day though, as some fool decided to build a jump at the side, which I continually wiped out on and then Twig tried to backflip a small rock and got mashed over and over again, check the end of the video for crash section!

And here is the video of the past weeks shenanigans:

Mini Edit from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Grund

We went down to Saas Grund yesterday, unfortunately the park still wasn't built, it was very busy, and the pistes were grim. But the sun was out and it was hot, so we sat at the side in the sun, much better!