I'm heading along the border with Bulgaria and Romania at the moment, following The Danube to The Black Sea. Right now I'm on the Danubian Plain and getting some good flying time in, not too far from...

I spent the winter getting ready for this ridiculous expedition: 30,000 miles around the world in a wheelchair.

I'm almost 2000 miles in so far, and realise I didn't actually spend the winter...

Just landed back in the UK, I'll post up photos and stoke after I've slept and unpacked.

Thanks mang, left some stuff for you at the front desk.

They do. Alaska Heli Skiing at 33 Mile, Haines (alaskaheliskiing.com) and Alaska Powder Descents in Juneau (alaskapowder.com) both really stepped up and made all this possible.

I'm heading back...

I'm skiing the 192 mainly, the guys didn't add a wide brake when they mounted the Lhasa so I'm not skiing it here just incase I release and end up halfway down something gnarly without a ski. I...

Pretty much haven't taken it off since you gave me it! Thanks

Some blue holes poking through the low cloud base and things are looking good. Just got the call and they're firing up the heli, film...

HOLY SHIT!!!!

It's been clouded-in over 33 mile yesterday and this morning but this afternoon I got up for a couple of runs, and had a total WTF am I doing here moment at the top of a line.

Got...

Will have more stoke and a proper TR when I get more footage and work through photos.

Cedar and the team at Alaska Powder Descents really stepped up and made everything work great, had a pro...

Guess where I am?!

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FKNA STOKED!!!

No flying today so I headed into Juneau to have a look around. Not much going on in there at the moment, end of the ski season and not quite the start of the cruise ship season. I'm heading up to...

Current storm is sitting over AK and not moving so doesn't look like I'll get any more skiing here in Juneau. Getting the ferry to Haines in the morning and keeping my fingers crossed some high...

Fuck Yeah! I'm in Alaska!!

Arrived in Juneau last night and got five runs in today with Alaska Powder Descents, stoked beyond words.

I'm skiing like crap and still getting used to the...

IT'S ON!

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Glad you managed to make things go well after they went bad and you're OK. Scary.

Had to laugh at the "Does that count as a run?" comment, good work.

Also, most chilled pilot ever?

Nice dude! My problem isn't not beng able to utilise the skis and edge as normal. It's more a case of them being a huge problem. Once I'm in the air the sitski is basically a 50lb anchor just...

I've had a pretty cool season and since Canyons extended their season by a week but haven't planned anything for the final week or final day I've decided to finish my last day skiing in Utah with a...

Yeah, there's interest!

Seriously awesome in itself, as completing 13 years(!) of gnarly lines for no other reason than because you wanted to it's pretty fucking epic.

wow. gnarballs.

I already paraglide, which is about getting height and distance but speedflying is all about prolonging the ground rush and playing with the terrain.

So Stoked!

I've been paragliding for a while and always wanted to work out a way to fly on snow with the sitski but until this season I've not managed it. Over the last couple of months I've been...

Hoping the weather plays the game in the morning. Looking good for some speedflying from 9990 at Canyons before the storm comes in later in the day and the wind gets too strong.

Hooking up two...

This weekend brought a pretty sweet storm through and dropped some of the best skiing this season. I need to make a compilation of me crashing into trees, it's been a recurring theme lately. Which is...

I've got a couple of them but they make it almost impossible to take the helmet off the mount again, especially on the hill. I have to take it off if I'm not on soft powder as the bumps just put to...

Do eet!

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It's coming together, possibly. Either Haines or Juneau, the guys have been awesome in trying to work things out and spend as much time skiing as possible instead of loading/unloading the sitski.
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I didn't post a TR from flying with WPB this season because I didn't get to fly with them, despite it being part of 'the deal' with the gig at Canyons.

I wanted to, but turns out WPB...

Sweet. Heliskiing + firearms + crabs sounds like stoke.

Just heard back from Chugach Powder Guides and they finish flying on the 17th, so as long as AHS are willing to put up the sitski I'm...

Thanks guys, I'm on it.

Just talked to Orion at alaskaheliskiing and there's a seat available, they've never had a sitskier before he's going to check with the pilot about flying with the basket...

No joy from the emails so far and I'm starting to panic that I'll be heading to the UK next week instead of AK, anyone up in AK who can put me in touch with someone who owns a heli?

IT'S ON!!!

Just extended my visa and looking at booking a week in AK. So far I've emailed the guys at Valdez Heli Ski, Chugach Powder Guides and Points North. I'm not sure I'll be able to get a...

Mega Stoke! Good work, stoked for you.

Get in a sitski for shits and giggles, or....stripclub marathon until you're sickened by the sight of day-glo thongs.

Ira, I'm hitting up AK when I finish here in Utah and would be stoked to meet up.

Nice, thanks man. I ski on 30 din bindings but the National Ability Center could definitely use some 19's for their program. I met up with those guys the other day and they're always desperate for...

I'm going to pull the trigger on this for sure.

I know technically I can go via Canada and re-enter the US on the Visa Waiver Program but there's a chance a grumpy border agent might decide I'm...

So I finish at Canyons on the 17th when they close and kick me out of my suite and am trying to line up some things to do to keep my season going as long as possible.

I didn't get to heli-ski here...

Thanks guys. If the weather stays on course and I don't fuck it up, on thursday I'll be speedflying in the sitski from 9990. Video to come!

Sweet, just confirmed the sitski rental and picking it up in the morning. Got it for weds, thurs and friday at least. Possibly sat and sun too.

Sunday morning did not suck:


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It'll be better on a crap-snow day to be honest. That way anyone trying it out isn't mising good conditions while crashing all over the place in a sitski on a bunny hill.

It's nowhere near as hard...

I'm borrowing a sitski from the National Ability Center in Park City this week, getting able-bodied people to try it out and see what it's like to ski sitting down.

Any maggots around that want to...

Drunk works best.

I gave a "best skier on the mountain" call out and claimed 1,000,000 G.N.A.R points, decided not to do it BN though.

Best moment of the day was probably getting a 'pro' call out from some guy in...

I hit the pond at Canyons yesterday. They don't mess about and made it 100ft long and about 5ft deep in the middle, no chance I was making it strapped into an orange painted anchor.

Managed to...

Cool to hang with you dude!

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Today did not suck.

Forgot to mention this earlier, dont think it needs a seperate post. I got some bracelets made up and was going to sell them to fund stupid stuff but the chinese orphans did a bad job making them and...

Definitely, I'm not upset with Canyons at all. They've been briiliant about everything and helped out whenever they can. The backflip has potential to be pretty gnarly if I mess it up and it's...

It needs to be on snow (the kicker angle is going to be important) and I need an airbag to practice landing on (water or foam-pits won't work 'cos the kickers are permanent, and I can't swim in a...