#2 Snowboard Cast for Monday January 9th 2006

Snowboarders Radio Show

This is the first real episode and covers the start of the season - the first big snowfall and the pain of a damaged snowboard
The Season kicks off in style and then some......rocks
- The Update for December - covering everything that has happened so far this season
- Blackalicious on epitaph Records entitled Powers
www.anonymoushiphop.com
- Where do we snowboard - The Milky Way, Italy - detailing the 6 resorts that make up the Milky Way Ski Area
- The snow conditions - the story so far this season
The lifts opened for the first time on Saturday 3rd December
50 cm of snow fell the day and night before = approx 20 in. - what a relief
pistes were ready to open anyway based on artificial snow
snow being made all through November thanks to unusually cold weather
cold weathe has continued with extremes of -26 in Livigno in December
cold weather has allowed snow cannons to function 24/7 for 2 months
with more new natural light snowfalls beginning again on 30 december
a couple of inches overnight 30th
and snow continuing to fall on New years eve
- Sansicario is where I am based
At the centre of the Milky Way with direct lift-links to Sauze, Sestriere and Claviere - from where you can cross the boarder into France by ski-lift
Sansicario is the venue for the Womwns Alpine Skiing events
- turin is the Host City for the 2006 Winte Olympics
Alpine skiing in Sestriere and Sansicario - snowboarding at Bardonechia
- Other events in Sansicario being The Biathlon and the Bobsleigh, Luge & Skeleton
- The Olympics building site, permanent and Temporary
the centre of Sansicario being overrun by a temporary tented village of hospitality and grandstands currentlybeing built
- The plus side is New Lifts and New Snowmaking
> 100 Million $ of new lifts
the same amount in new permanent snowmaking systems
Sansicario alone - of 14 lifts - 11 replaced in the last 7 years - 8 replaced for Olympics
- 2 new 8-man Gondolas replacing 3 2-man chairs
4 times as fast and twice the volume
- 1 New super-fast 4-man chair replacing 2 drag-lifts
- 1 4-man chair replacing the 2 beginners drag-lifts
- a faster twin drag-lift replacing an old single drag-lift
- More music by Anonymous entitled I See Dead People from the album To Whom It May Concern
- after the 2nd December snowfall
I couldn't resist the off-piste on saturday 3rd
pretty much a the side of every open piste - all for me
plus one closed piste - where the snowcats hadn't passed
powder snow everywhere - just enough to surf, Saturday and Sunday, what a weekend
- 10th and 11th December
Back again for 9th and 10th - surfing powder - still plenty untouched
I hould have known better - rocks - 3 holes in the bottom of my board by lunchtime
repaired overnight - sunday on piste practising tricks and switch - explain
- the theme music by colin Owns a yet to be released tune called '1 this Day' www.aboutfaceaudio.com
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boston based podcast - conversations with artists filmmakers and designers
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