"Drug Buddy" wrote in message
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Barney wrote:

Hmmm, food for thought. I managed to do my first jump a couple of
weeks ago at the Lecht here in Scotland. It was a kicker about 18
inches high (45cm or so), so no big deal, but I kept bottling it and
riding past it. Eventually I flatlined at it, I didn't bottle it, and
it was fine. I'm looking forward to trying some more at Cairn Gorm
this weekend!

Nice one Barn,

Cheers. I managed to do a "proper" kicker at Cairn Gorm on Saturday. It was
built at the end of a wee ridge, so there was maybe a three foot drop (yeah,
I know, that's not really very big) in total.

I was up at Coe on Sat there, more to give a bit of support
to keeping the lifts open than anything else. Total whiteout though, spent
most of the day trying to figure out what way was up, I even got lost at
one
point and had to walk til I saw a lift! BTW - whiteout conditions make you
sea sick!

Yeah, the top of Cairn Gorm was nasty as hell. High winds, ice, whiteout.
It's a shame cos there was some lovely powder up there as well. Lower down
was much nicer, if you could avoid the rocks. And heather.

Any idea how the Lecht's looking for this week, I'm hoping to catch some
more white before I return to hell.

Is that you back to Baku? I think the snow's all melting at the moment. Not
that I care - I'm off to Tignes on Saturday for a week!