Round 2 of the 661 Gravity Enduro - Kielder

2011-06-30

A bit late on this blog I'm afraid but Round 2 of the UK Gravity Enduro sponsored by 661 took place the other weekend up in a midge-filled Kielder Forest. The tracks were rad, the weather on Sunday was awesome (Saturday wasn't quite so good...) and my new 2011 Giant Reign X0 was riding like a dream!

Round 1 of the 661 Gravity Enduro - Ae Forest

2011-05-26

Gravity Enduro series sees up to 300 riders competeing against the clock on up to 6 timed stages, all of which are downhill. The person with the quickest accumulated time over all 6 stages wins - simple! However, you still have to ride back up to the top, no uplifts or chairlifts here and with a time limit to get to the start of each stage the event is a real test of both a riders skill as well as their fitness.

Still winter climbing on the Benn

2011-03-27

Team PlanetFear and Team Hagloffs hit The Ben this weekend as man flu had ruled out races and the possibility of a Bob Graham attempt..

After a bit of lazy start from the top car park (!) we coughed and
spluttered into the CIC hut - the amount of snow which has vanished over the last week is impressive for the wrong reasons - that said it didn't seem to put off the crowds.

Snow free until we got underneath Douglas Boulder and then buckets and
buckets of wet spring snow heading towards Tower Scoop, which offered
plastic ice, first time placements and screws that nats could pull out!! We took the right hand finish which had a great little section of steeper ice,
especially tough for Nat with her "near" broken arm following an earlier
scrap with a bit of flying debris.

The high classics saw plenty of action - we counted 8 on Hadrians Wall, a
team approaching the missing bit in 0.5 and spoke to people who'd done

New member of staff heads off to Norway

2011-03-16

I am just back from one week in Norway cruising up the coast and through the fjords, wonderful scenery and fantastic people. It was a voyage of discovery as I realised that I suffer from motion sickness....not good when on a week long cruise!!!
We first headed north and into the Arctic circle where it got colder and the scenery became more dramatic with less and less populated areas. As we croossed into the Arctic we had a meeting with neptune, the god of the sea, and to pay our respect to him we had what felt like a bucket of iced water down the back of the neck....brrrrr!!! the shot of whisky afterwards helped warm me back up!!!
We arrived in a large town on the coast called Tromso, a nice looking ski resort overlooking the town which we will return to one day to try it out. This is where we went dog sledding out in the countryside surrounding the town. It was fabulous experience and the dogs are amazing and get so excited when they are waiting to g

Who said there is no snow in europe?

2011-03-16

I am stood on the top of an Austrian mountain above the town of Zell am see and I can't see 20m in front of me due to the white out. It has been like this since the second day here and there must be 2 foot (60cm to all you modernists), of fresh snow. For most people this would be a dream but as it's only my second snowboarding trip the lack of visability is making me nervous, and rightly so as the day before I caught an edge on a fat mogul and slammed into the ground/snow.
Fast Fast forward to day four and its brilliant blue skies, minus 18C, the snow is perfect but this nagging pain in my chest is distracting me from enjoying the conditions, I think it may be broken but my brother says "stop being a wuss you just pulled a muscle"! Then I find the answer it is a combination of Ibrprofen every 3 hours and a large Gluvine (mulled wine), every 2 hours, and my s

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Round 2 of the 661 Gravity Enduro - Kielder

Round 1 of the 661 Gravity Enduro - Ae Forest

Still winter climbing on the Benn

New member of staff heads off to Norway

Who said there is no snow in europe?