Davos Daily Details:

• Timetable - 9:45 to 4:40
• Area(s) - Parsenn, Jakobshorn
  
• Equipment - Palmer
• Weather - Cloudy with snow showers
  
• Visibility - Total white out to bluebird
  
• Snow conditions - Sticky piste and snow-filled pipe
  
• Company - Music
  
• Fun factor - Amped
  

Started the day on Parsenn in a total white-out.  Snow showers, low cloud, zero viz, strong head wind and sticky snow on the pistes made the morning experiance total pants.  I made a few bolox runs before bailing out by riding to the village.

Transferred to Jakobshorn, hoping for better conditions.  Although better, conditions were far from good.  Very low cloud wiped out all visibility.  On the plus side, there was no one around.  I made a couple of dodgy runs before taking refuge in the Jatz Hutte.  I hung out as long as I could before taking what I thought would be a final look at the Hill when the clouds started to lift and the sun broke through.  I found the pipe, full of snow, but not totally useless.  I started to put a few turns in.  By 13:30 there were a handful of riders using the pipe, which smoothed out the new snow and made the riding pretty good, albeit a bit slower than the traditional icy pipe.

As the pipe was running slower than normal I was finding it hard to even reach the coping.  Then around 15:00 a light went on, the reason I lose speed on the wall is because I flex the front leg, which has the added disadvantage of bringing me physically closer to the wall as I ride up (an off-putting sort of ground-rush effect).  For the next few runs I concentrated on keeping the front leg extended to the top and I started to reach the coping with less effort and what felt like more control.

I then started to put a little hop in the initial entry to the pipe, to increase speed for the first transfer.  Then just as it was all about to come to an end at around 16:15, I finally managed two proper airs out of the pipe, back to back, toeside then healside.  I let out a huge screem, part fear, part delight.  The rest of the turns were just a little nose and tail air as I rode round the coping, but the job was done.  I finally got out of the pipe with back to back turns.

As the light faded again and the lifts started to shut I rode off the Hill with a feeling of real achievement.

Board off, shattered.