Japan.

Van.

Shion..our abode.

Heath on the river.

In the cat.

Heath Cab 3 on cat mission.

Has been so amazing up in Hokkaido. Heaps of fluffy snow. We have been doing van missions everyday and doing stuff of the sides of road. We have been hitting up at least two things per day which has been good. We went up in a cat to some dope stuff yesterday. Here are a few photos from my camera from the past week. 

Photographs from 2009.

Ngong Ping Buddha.

Stairs to Buddha.

Tourist shot. Solo mission to Ngong Ping.

Rode this to get the above shot.

Sunset in China at Happy Hour.

Unhappy at Happy Hour.

More Happy Hour.

Behind this Extreme Gulp is Browner adding a few 'syrup caffeine' shots. Free of charge and limit of 2 per day.

Cabela's outdoor shop.

Don Rickles loving the cover of Entertainer in Tahoe Subway.

Browner and the beast.

Reno.

Lo.wer Blog Link.

Lo.wer Blog.

Just came across this on the Lo.wer webpage. Had forgotyen about it. Thank you Parker Cross.

Am in China right now. Crazy place!

Tahoe- Seoul - Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is Highrise buildings and water.

Am now in Hong Kong after 6 amazing in the United States. I have heaps more photos to post but here is one from Hong Kong. Here is a link to my blog from below on nzsnowboard.com. Northern Hemisphere So Far (December and New Years).

Northern Hemisphere so far.

Seattle Petrol Station, our board bags were in the open tray in the back. They got wet.

Spencer and Browner in The Alley at Sierra.

Park City's jumps were good. Cliff and me in the queue.

Teppanyaki on Christmas Day.

Straight up badass in San Fransisco.

Just wrote a blog for this but don't know how to copy paste it in. 

Colorado -Utah.

Dew Tour was pretty dope. Was hard to get speed for the last jump but alllllll good. I ended up in 25th in the qualifiers and 17 ended up going through. Bit gutting because my run wasn't really good at all. The party the next night was pretty maggot.

Park City has been fun. I have ridden 4 days there and they have a 5 jump line. Fun! I sessioned it for 4 hours straight yesterday. Today I have slept almost all day.

So, good times in Utah. We hit a ledge the other night that we managed to get pretty sweet photos on. Was a good mellow start to filming.

Ride Website Link.

A little on the start of the season. Link right here.

Colorado has a good amount of snow. The Ride mini ramp in Seattle is 4 foot and hammers. Skatelite ply and a 6 foot mini is about to be connected which should be mental.

Whistler is a fun place place and the park there was nice for a start-of-the-season shralp and a bit of board testing went down also. Lowrise rocker gets the thumbs up from me.

Tomorrow the Dew Tour slopestyle are happening. We filled out a crazy amount of paperwork today for entry.

Choice!

Donny Rickles was there.

Horrendous was our name.

Horrendous killing it.

The Ride mini ramp in Seattle.

Myself, Juuso and Megan at Keystone.

Dero Gold - Auckland - Vancouver - Whistler.

Canadian Mountains.

Vancouver.

Keg Stand.

Morri - Best Dressed.

Whistler looks really nice. The snow line is high at the moment but the Ride crew are all dope and it has been a blast so far.

Mount Maunganui.

The finished product and Heath.

Lupins line the road near Tekapo.

Waikuku Beach, just north of Christchurch.

The ferry. Ladiidaa.

Wellington Bowl.

The one, the only, Matthew Bell enjoying Oriental Bay.

Lake Taupo, glassy.

Am back in The Mount after a nice drive from Queenstown up here.  A lot of singing to myself and V drinking went on on the drive but I am at my destination now. 

Have finished painting the house and snow is on my agenda next. Have got my my feet sandy on a stroll along the beach and just checked out the new Rome movie at Dutty's pad. Eiki Halgason and LNP are deboucherous. 

Stayed in Wellington and enjoyed Oriental Bay with Matt Bell. 2 years in a row I have scored it on the drive up. Calm, sunny Wellington. Also, stopped in Kaikoura before Wellington to catch up with the Stef Zeestraten. The man is relaxing and relishing in the beauty Kaikoura offers.

The road from Queenstown all the way up to Christchurch was amazing. It was like something from a Disney movie. The road was lined with purple Lupins. All of the rivers had Lupins around them too. 

A barbeque on friday night at the Queesntown skatepark was another rad thing that has gone on in the past week. Geetz, Sammy and Farad? Were destroying the step up and new step up to ledge ply addition.

Another Link.

Check this video of Daewon Song. 1:51 pretty dope!

Painting the house in the heat.

Am painting the house at the moment. Heath and Jamin have been giving me a hand and it is coming along pretty sweet. The sun has been beaming after a bit of snow early last week. Here are a few links worthy of a watch on Youtube.

Fix Push

Mike Mo Tre Line

Enjoy.

Flights.

Flying can be a hassle but nost of the time it is bloody brilliant. I had a nightmare of a time getting from Rotorua to Queenstown last Thursday. The Qantas plane was broken. Engineering we were told. So , I didnn't get on the 1.40 flight that I was scheduled to go on. The next flight which only got as far as Christchurch was scheduled for 3.30. That was full. So, onto the 5.15 flight to Wellington linking to Christchurch. "When you get to Christchurch just go to the Qantas service desk and they will sort your accommodation for you and you can catch the earliest flight in the morning to Queenstown" I was told. "Will they still be open when I arrive at 7.30?" I asked. "Will just check that....yup they will" I got told. Thank you, that sounds easy I thought. I get to Christchurch airport and both the international and domestic Qantas terminals are shut. Hmmm..I thought and jumped on the phone to 0800 number. After being put on hold for 30 minutes then again for 20 minutes I finally get the answer that no they can't help me and noone had the name of the hotel that Qantas usually uses in Christchurch. This is ridiculous I told the lady. I just want the name of the hotel! "Can you call Australia and see if they have the name of the hotel?" I asked. No, we don't have the umber and there is nothing else we can do. 

I went and asked for some more help but everywhere was closed. The tourist desk, the Air New Zealand counter, the security guards..noone could tell me anything.

I finally found out the name of the hotel and had decided that I would use my credit card and charge it back to Qantas. Mum called Qantas in Australia and by the time I was checking in at the hotel a room, dinner and breakfast had been sorted out. I took it easy and then jumped on the first plane the next morning to my destination. I got into Queenstown about 20 hours later than I first thought....pretty sweet hotel and meals though.

Blog time.

Well this entry is the first in a month. Not really on but here we go. Am currently in The Mount visiting he whanau. The season is pretty much finished in New Zealand but there is still snow hanging around so we may go shape a little something something up. The past month has been a goodie. The weather has been pretty rubbish but a lack of good times hasn't been sacrificed. Diaries Dowunder is all finished for the season. Episode 7 should be up real soon and episodes 5 and 6 are now up on twsnow.com. Our last day filming was on Tuesday (October 21st). JP and Lochy were kind enough to cart us up and down a few features that should be in Episode 7. Newsweek is also all over for the season too. Episode 20 was he last one. It went up after the end of season Snow Park party on October 4th. The NZSBU teams were named, given champagne and everybody got loose. Bloody great season all up! 

Thank you to all who have been watching Newsweek and Diaries Dowunder.

Another great week in the Southern Lakes.

Diaries Downunder 4 is now up on Snowflick.co.nz and nzsnowboard.com. Also all the goods from Style Wars in New Zealand is up and viewable at stylewars.co.nz. I ended up in 3rd after the ride vote. Eric Willett won the overall. The New Zealand team managed to win the overall as well. 

The final Remarkables Cadbury Moro Slopestyle was on Saturday so we went up there did our runs then rushed back to Snow Park for the end of Style Wars..had a medan session on the step-up, watched the new Sandbox film premiere then jumped back in the car to get back to Queenstown for the Slopestyle prizegiving at Buffalo. I ended up winning and won the overall as well. Has been a good season.

Coronet Peak closed today but The Remarkables is open for another 3 weeks and is still super fun.

Stylewars Day One Bloggy thing.

Check the Stylewars Blog.

www.stylewars.co.nz

NZSKI.COM Slopestyle media release.

This photo was attached to the press release on nzski.com.

Last few days have been pretty mellow. Yesterday was good but the snow has come again. Hopefully getting into the park to film a little bit more for Diaries Downunder Episode 4. Diaries Downunder 3 is now up on twsnow.com. Check it.

4 days of being judged.

The last 4 days I have been in front of judges. Started on Wednesday with the LG FIS Continental Cup qualifiers. I ended up qualifying in second. The weather was atrocious so the finals got moved to Thursday in hope that the weather would be better. Not the case. The slush had frozen but the course was somehow slower than qualifiers. A frustrating afternoon but I ended up in 5th. The Norwegians killed it taking first, second and third and they sang their national anthem at prizegiving on the podium. 

On Friday we went up to The Remarkables to film some park stuff for episode 4 of Diaries Downunder then left to go to the Snow Park Invitational Rail Jam. $6000 up for the taking and Pooch took it out. He is good! I came second and walked away happy but pennyless. The MDTV episode should be up in the next day or so.

Yesterday was the third Cadbury Moro Slopestyle and it was dooooope. Although the landings were rock solid the weather was bluebird and half of Asia turned up. I fell on my first run but pulled myself together for my second run. I landed my first backside 270 and backside 9 in competition so was stoked to take the win.

Just found this.

Ride Website Email Thing.

This has just gone up on ridesnowboards.com.

Went to Cardrona today for the FIS Continental Cup Slopestyle. Was relentless rain all day and the finals ended up being postponed until tomorrow. I qualified in second behind Roger Kleivadel of Norway.