It was always the Swedish Chef on The Muppets who was often a little bit off his rocker, and a lot hard to understand. Anne-Flore, with her boundless energy and positivity, proves the Swiss can be a little out there too. In a really good way, goofy describes more than just her riding stance!
ENTRY 1
Hi my first name is Anne-Flore. I come from Switzerland and I love chocolate and ice cream..
I got the pink Journal, that’s because I m a sweetheart.
I d rather be called a bitch then a sweetheart. …sweethearts don’t bite!
Funny crew here! 2 brunettes 2 blonds, 2 skiers 2 shredders.. 1 dirty French 1 proper french 1 recon English 1 gum english, 3 freestylers 1 big mountain rider. That’s a big crew! We are going to have lots of fun!
ENTRY 2
Andrea is the Jenga Dinga! She is obsessed with Jenga!
Her and Marie-France are way too into that game!
I move on to Poker with the guys.. I m not good at tit! But hei! I schooled them!
Today was so much fun! We rode all day and did so much stuff! From freeride lines to powder turns, cliffs and jumps!
Shin is our slave! He built the booters for us! Haha!
I m so messy! Everytime I arrive somewhere my bag explodes! Boom! All my stuff gets all over the place!
I m sharing a small room with Marie-France.. you know French people like promiscuity☺ Well she isn’t better then me in bags explosion !! So now we got to pack it all! I hate packing!
ENTRY 3
I love Monashee Powder! It s the second time I come here.
Terrain is sick! Everyone is so nice and the food is delicious! I ll be back pretty soon for sure!
Well time to move on to the next location! Yeaheah!!
ENTRY 4
Ride day. On our way to Selkirk all the girls in the car..
We take a ferry and drive and talk ,laf , sing and talk more..
Talk about how “responsible” shin drives.. (kind of slow)
About music, about politics.. and then It got intense!
We told our love stories! Guys heartbrakers, WE heartbrakers! e are becoming intimate.. a real team!
Coffee break or should I say hokey break..
Hokey is so boring!
And what? Free condoms in the lady’s room? And not in the guy’s? Weird.. tells a lot about the owner! Haha I like!
ENTRY 5
Selkirk. Crazy terrain.. crazy lines! Looks insane!
We ve been riding all day long! Sunny again.. snow is perfect! So good!
Andrea is impressive.. she is comfortable riding most stuff I d never touch! I m impressed! We all try to follow her on other crazy but a bit mellower lines..
Marie-France charges like mad a sick line! She pretty much straight lined a full mountain! I m proud of my little dirty sister! She is killing it with style! Yeah!
ENTRY 6
Wake up, breakfast, jump in the cat. 45mn later you stand on top of a crazy ridge and drop in! Kristi isn’t feeling her line, I fire her up.. she drops in does 2 turns and get caught by her sluff.. s c a r y ! She tumbles the all mountain recovered by snow.. a sluff avalanche..
She disappears on the all face and luckily reappears at the very bottom of the face. We all got really scared for her.. I m so happy she is alright! I like this girl.. I don’t want anything to happen to her! We move on.. nobody feels like doing another line after that!
We try to build a jump.. no speed.. didn’t work.. we go to pillow spot! Andrea smokes it! jump and and get a shot!! I m so stoked! The snow is so good! The day is over.. we are all super tired.. time for food and bed.. I should take a shower.. but I leave it for tomorrow morning.. Good night
ENTRY 7
Tired today.. get off the cat and there I stand on top of big lines… didn’t ride at all yet..
First run of the day I can feel my heart beat. just a little scared.. anyways I drop in cant see anything cross to avoid getting caught by my sluff drop into the second shoulder of the face 2 turns in the sunny spot and point it in that shoot. Waow!! That s a crazy feeling! I m stoked I went for it..
I look up it’s Marie-France ‘s turn! Yeaheah!! She drops big spines straight down all the way.. of course her heels hurt.. she cant turn!! Crazy! Charging!! I m impressed!
The day goes on.. I m too tired.. I cant find the energy.. .time for a hottob! And party! We played the funniest game today! Our crew against the other guest of the lodge.. each team on the other side of the ping pong table.. we drop the ball in the center and the team that gets the ball come out off the table on the other team’s side by blowing wins!
Crazy game hilarious! You should try!
ENTRY 8
Day off.. I needed a day off so bad!!
we drive down and stop at the noboard café..
it was closed.. so shin called his friends to open it for us!
I like this guys.. the kind of people who don’t give a sh*t.. they live life through passion and enjoy day after day.. they don’t give a shit they want to enjoy.. the sun is warm.. today was that first day that tells you winter is over.. the sun warms your skin.. it feels like the sun comes to wake you up from a cold nap.. sunshine is happiness.
After our stop we head to the hot springs.. and we get a massage.. hmmm feels so good.. and we jump in the hot water.. the sunset enivre all of us.. the view is beautiful! The pools over hang above a beautiful lake surround by mountains.. It reminds me of home.. (lake Geneva) andrea wants to show she is tuff! She jumps in the freezing water.. it looks like she is suffering.. she looses her breath.. she says she likes it?? Doesn’t look like she does.. I like her.. she is cool!
ENTRY 9
Drive to chatter creek.. I ve heard so much good stuff about this place I m very excited to get there.. I got to drive on the dirt road! It was so fun.. dirt dust mud water snow..
everything mixed to make it extra slippery! I almost hit a bridge.. but hei?! I got it under control! It was sick! Oh yeah! By the way.. Kristi has total lame radio music taste!
We got there earlier then expected.. we all stuffed our self into one of the car like gipsys to watch borat..
The lodge is huge! The food excellent.. cant wait to see more!
ENTRY 10
harder to wake up every morning. 1st day of bad weather.. the snow is flying.. like magic powder really weird.. we are all wett and ride in shitty light.. at some point we could see and droped a few pellow lines.. Marie-France saved the day! She got 2 sick lines!
ENTRY 11
Today is a big day! Shin says.. It felt like never ending.. woke up extra early to catch the morning light!
Most amayzing landscapes.. woao! I had a hard time to wake up really.. we found sweet pellow lines.. andreas line looked so good until she dropped into it and realized it was ice only! Pellow lines can be a little scary from the top.. you cant see anything from up there.. you drop into the end of the world to flat.. and it s pretty much what I did.. I almost aired over the hole line and landed into a wall it felt like.. the snow was just really hard and packed.. I almost nocked my self out by hitting my knee into my jaw..
So sweet wake up call! We move on.. find a step down spot.. I feel deasy and let the girls hit it.. marie-france shows her magic again.. cab 540 first track! Sick style as always! Watching her ride makes me stoked! shin build another small booter right next for it. I feel a little better and hit it.. I got too much speed and overshot the hole thing! Bam! My knee up my face again! Lovin it..
I go back up and wait all afternoon for the clouds to move..
Spring clouds.. they just sit right above your head.. we finally gt some sun it went ok.. Harro makes it look like I jump over the cat.. different perceptions.. kind of funny..
I m so sour.. cant move.. need some rest and good sleep..
Hope I ll be able to walk tomorrow.. hard to be tuff!
Anne-Flore Marxer