Well we finally got some more powder on Thursday, and some more on Friday. Tom had pinched a nerve in his shoulder so he took the day off on Thursday, so I stuck the iPod in and went riding alone. I bumped into Anouk after a while and she invited me to ride with her NonStop AMP group, so I spent the rest of the day with them.

The AMP is the course I would have done if I’d decided to stay after completing my Level 1 Instructor exam. It’s a pure rider improvement course with no teaching involved. The emphasis is on free-riding: jumps, spins, trees and drop-ins. Riding around with them was fun, and inspired me to start throwing myself around the mountain a bit, so I was pretty happy when it paid off and I did a nice 180 jump and stomped the landing. Not a whole lot of air, but that’s not too important at this stage – doing a spin without wiping out is!