Death in the Afternoon

I’m no pro skier, I’m not sponsored by any manufacturer or filmed on a daily basis as part of one of those tantalizingly extreme films where everyone is skiing in chest deep powder on some remote face in Alaska. I’m just a guy who loves to ride the back country. If it’s un-pisted then that’s […]
Koncheto ridge

02/09/2013 A return to Koncheto it has been nearly a year since I was last on koncheto. For those of you who don’t know this ridge it is the saddle to the right of what looks like the highest mountain in Pirin when you look up from the village. I am not quite sure how butKoncheto has […]
A different sort of training

11/08/2013 A different sort of training, I have just come back from 2 lovely days in the hills with a friend from Sofia, he is a very busy political bee up there and juggling work and a growing family with what are turning out to be “interesting times” in Sofia has meant we haven’t seen him […]
Avalanche

10/3/2012 first real avalanche of the season this week, a small 25m wide and 200m long number. Spring is definately here changing the snow pack and bringing wet heavy snow. The new snow skis well and Tom and I have been having a great time in it but the fact that it has fallen on a […]
Our little community

17/08/2012 A word on community “ We are a small community here in Bansko. If you stretch the numbers a bit we could be a total of 50 people living here permanently. Ex-pats and their families dot most of the villages in our region. Our children go to the local schools, we use the local doctors and get […]