Northstar at Tahoe baby!

After 18 months of saving and preparations and 23 hours of travel we are finally here in the US of A. Upon arriving it was clear what the priorities were - drop everything and get in the hot tub with a nice cold beer! Our house is amazing only 200 yards from the lake. A massive thanks to Laura for finding it and sorting it al out. Absolute star.

Our first day riding was a massive disappointment with a lack of snow and barely anything to ride not to mention the lovely RAIN FALL. Its safe to say it was a total write off. The following day was a massive improvement with about 2ft of powder dropped over night. I only have park skis with me so I had a little play on a board in some beautiful knee high pow pow. We kept it to the piste and had an easy day just cruising about getting our bearings together. From a previous experience I didn't want to go anywhere away from the piste without there being a nice thick base burying any rocks.

On a sad note this actually happened to my room mate Izzy. She was just at the side of the piste and hit something. As she put her hands down to stop herself falling she got one of them caught in-between two rocks breaking it. The cast goes on on monday and then another five weeks or so recovery.

Finally we woke up to some nice weather which got everyone super stoked to ride! Pinball park was shaped with a few kickers and rails and the 22ft super pipe was shaped to perfection. We cruised through the park most of the day just getting warmed up to the kickers and rails and testing out most of our usual tricks. Finishing off the day riding with a few runs in the pipe.

Hot tub after riding followed with a meal out at the mexican restaurant. What a way to kick off the season.