by katemackay25 | Jan 28, 2016
What a difference twelve months makes: last year conditions were poor with ice and wind, but in 2016, after a snow-deprived Christmas and New Year, the snow gods delivered. Tina and Claire who travelled with me last year could not make it due to other commitments, but...
by katemackay25 | Oct 23, 2015
How are you starting this year’s season? I started mine last weekend not with just a bang but rather a Big Bang. The Snowboard Asylum teamed up with Tamworth SnowDome to provide two days of everything snowboard with the Big Bang Snowboard Show Weekender. I travelled...
by katemackay25 | Sep 4, 2015
I can hear a collective, country-wide sigh of relief as most children head back to school this week or early next. It’s great to spend time with the kids but as school holidays progress they get bored, restless and a touch fed up (as do the grown-ups!). So what can...
by katemackay25 | May 29, 2015
It is now becoming more common to see children on snowboards, but how does it work when you have children who ski and snowboard in one family? Are there differences in how you cope and how you work as a family? As a snowboarder it would be great if my daughter shared...
by katemackay25 | Mar 15, 2015
You watched the Sochi Olympics last year and saw Jenny Jones’s bronze medal slopestyle run. You have seen the cover photos on magazines such as The Reason, Whitelines and Cooler Magazine. Freestyle is for Olympians and men with proverbial ‘balls of steel’ who huck...
by katemackay25 | Feb 8, 2015
With Valentine’s Day looming thoughts turn to love, lust and romance but how much affection do you feel for your fellow winter sports enthusiasts? In the past there was much made about the rivalry between those who favoured one plank and those who chose two. The...
