Summary: This is the first real episode and covers the start of the season - the first big snowfall and the pain of a damaged snowboard The Season kicks off in style and then some......rocks - The Update for December - covering everything that has happened so far this season - Blackalicious on epitaph Records entitled Powers www.anonymoushiphop.com - Where do we snowboard - The Milky Way, Italy - detailing the 6 resorts that make up the Milky Way Ski Area - The snow conditions - the story so far this season The lifts opened for the first time on Saturday 3rd December 50 cm of snow fell the day and night before = approx 20 in. - what a relief pistes were ready to open anyway based on artificial snow snow being made all through November thanks to unusually cold weather cold weathe has continued with extremes of -26 in Livigno in December cold weather has allowed snow cannons to function 24/7 for 2 months with more new natural light snowfalls beginning again on 30 december a couple of inches overnight 30th and snow continuing to fall on New years eve - Sansicario is where I am based At the centre of the Milky Way with direct lift-links to Sauze, Sestriere and Claviere - from where you can cross the boarder into France by ski-lift Sansicario is the venue for the Womwns Alpine Skiing events - turin is the Host City for the 2006 Winte Olympics Alpine skiing in Sestriere and Sansicario - snowboarding at Bardonechia - Other events in Sansicario being The Biathlon and the Bobsleigh, Luge & Skeleton - The Olympics building site, permanent and Temporary the centre of Sansicario being overrun by a temporary tented village of hospitality and grandstands currentlybeing built - The plus side is New Lifts and New Snowmaking 100 Million $ of new lifts the same amount in new permanent snowmaking systems Sansicario alone - of 14 lifts - 11 replaced in the last 7 years - 8 replaced for Olympics - 2 new 8-man Gondolas replacing 3 2-man chairs 4 times as fast and twice the volume - 1 New super-fast 4-man chair replacing 2 drag-lifts - 1 4-man chair replacing the 2 beginners drag-lifts - a faster twin drag-lift replacing an old single drag-lift - More music by Anonymous entitled I See Dead People from the album To Whom It May Concern - after the 2nd December snowfall I couldn't resist the off-piste on saturday 3rd pretty much a the side of every open piste - all for me plus one closed piste - where the snowcats hadn't passed powder snow everywhere - just enough to surf, Saturday and Sunday, what a weekend - 10th and 11th December Back again for 9th and 10th - surfing powder - still plenty untouched I hould have known better - rocks - 3 holes in the bottom of my board by lunchtime repaired overnight - sunday on piste practising tricks and switch - explain - the theme music by colin Owns a yet to be released tune called '1 this Day' www.aboutfaceaudio.com see www.artfilmdesign.com boston based podcast - conversations with artists filmmakers and designers - music.podshow.com -
