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27th January, 2003

So it rained yesterday, and has been really warm (like +5 at the bottom of the hill). This basically meant the snow turned to mush on the whole mountain, and has refrozen as nasty hard-packed ice. It'll take a couple of decent dumps of snow to sort it out, so we might have had the best riding of the holiday already. We went to check out the park today, and whilst it was also pretty hard, it wasn't too icy, so we played around on some of the rails for a while. This is Mike Hinshelwood 50-50'ing a rail - as you can see the sun came out and so filming conditions were perfect. Ivy took her skis and shot some follow-cam shots, including a long one of us going down the run at the end of the day. Our experiments with the "helmet cam" - my camera wedged underneath a goggle strap - didn't really work very well. We have hilarious outtakes footage once more, however...

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