Check out what I dug out from the dusty old archives. Photos from our first snowboard mission to New Zealand.

Whoa!! Check out the features at the R-4 Snow park at Hakuba 47. Its going to be an awesome and scary time.

If you have been to Queenstown you would have encountered party pills which are sold over the counter at most liquor shops.

Found a smooth looking boardslide while channel surfing youtube. Des has to learn this trick before he can get any new gear.

The Chinese say its crazy to go up to HeiLong Jiang in Winter. "It's so cold, even your snot freezes " gestured one local.

Legend has it that Chinese Triads started from a small band of noble revolutionaries, martial arts heroes brought together by the common cause of overthrowing the power of the Qing Dynasty.

There is only one chairlift at Yabuli and it defintely looks like it had better days. Taking you slooowly to the top, your ride is accompanied by Chinese folk songs and the "played everywhere in China" Celine Dion Titanic song.

Having dragged my board all the way from Australia to China, I was pretty keen to tick off a few more days of boarding before Summer inevitably settled in.