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1st stop, Iceland in June 2003 for its sparse beauty, 21 hours of sunlight a day,
bathing in hot springs, a Solar Eclipse, staying in a town where there are no
shops, only a glacier that is home to the Iceland Park Project snowboard camp. This is one of the only places in the world a professional snowboarder can travel to, in June, to snowboard. This remote Western Coast of Iceland and the Snaefellsjokull Glacier (made famous by Jules Verne’s Journey to the centre of the Earth) has long been associated with supernatural forces and has become a point of pilgrimage for new age travellers, who consider the area one of the world’s great power centres, much to the bemusement of the locals. The DropStitch Team for Iceland was comprised of Lesley McKenna,
Tina Birbaum, Cuca Aranda, Heidi
Kurkinen, Lisa Filzmoser, Lisa Wiik, and youngster Laura Berry –
ladies who impressed the pants off the Lisa Filzmoser caught the eyes of all with her cracking spins
on the big kicker, and Lesley McKenna has
claimed the first slam for the cock-ups section with her behemoth
backside 360. Whilst looking down at
the knuckle she realised she would have enough time to spin a 720,
but over shot the landing and ate All the ladies were ruling on the rails, particularly Cuca who was laying down switch 270's onto the rails and Tina, who was stomping gap to frontside Boardslides. Laura Berry was also gapping to boardslides in various combinations. Off the snow the ladies saw some of the magnificent waterfalls, beaches, birds and caves of Iceland, made the first part of their first pop video, played bottle of Avalon, and, of course taught each other filthy phrases in their respective languages. Rumour has it that it wasn't just the girls snowboarding that outshone the boys by the end of the week. Ouch just you wait…..Next leg, New Zealand here we come…
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livelarge.ca
 whistler-blackcomb.com |
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