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This was by far the most productive weekend of the 09 season. Photog Dominic Zimmermann, David Bertschinger Karg and I met in the NBC headquarters on Friday, the first time in our house that winter. The resort was still closed and the heating wasn’t on yet. On Friday we had the mission to make the cover of the next whiteout photoissue. We had the idea to make letters out of snow and let dave jump over them. I was equipped with a big plastic box and a massive bread knife. The snow was perfect for shaping, I could cut the letters straight out of the blocks. After finalizing my artwork, Dave started jumping over the letters. He tried and tried until his ollie looked perfect, and as if the buzzer went off in basketball, Dave nailed his last attempt and the letters started melting due to the crazy warm winds that were blowing like a hairdryer. So he went back up and smashed the letters and we headed home.

On day two, we got joined by Forum rider Mario Käppeli, and we already had our minds on the next coup. We wanted to build a stepdown quarterpipe on top of the 5 storey high parking garage. We first had to check if the roof is long enough for a tow in by car. So we started heaving snow from the upper to the lower floor for the landing… we lifted tons of snow, wet snow. We were shaping the whole day long, no lie. after shaping we headed back to the house for quick dinner. It seemed like everything was going to work out if no one kills himself by slitting his throat on those rasor sharp metal edges meant for stopping snow from sliding off the roof. Yes, they were right on the coping, hence the frightened facial expression on my shot while being head down over those bastards. Mario and me had some sort of pipe-battle going on trying to go higher and higher pushing of the metal coping and flipping over the top almost clearing the whole landing. On one mctwist mario landed into “wallride”, that was totally insane. Dave was trying to get a tap or something on the coping, but those metal edges on the roof repeatedly robbed him from his control to keep the board under his feet. Flips were the way to go… we were totally bummed we didn’t have a filmer around because those would have been sick shots, but never the less, we were all stoked on the photos. This is probably my favorite shot this season, since the whole weekend was a total blast!

On Sunday we had another crazy idea, actually it was one of the weirdest obstacles ive ever ridden. It was a small drop in made of snow that lead into the garage and through some metal struts to a landing in the lower floor, which was 180 degrees, that meant you land in the same direction you came from. This wasn’t always the case but oh well, it was innovative!