In my teens I was lucky enough to join a couple of School Ski trips to Italy & Austria. At that time I really enjoyed skiing, but it was only after a local dry slope opened in my home town that I got really hooked!

A couple of friends and I started spending a lot of time there, and we also started teaching ourselves how to Snowboard. Thining back, we we’re really terrible, but we were having fun, and it wasn’t long before one of my friends and I started travelling around the UK competing regional race events.

When the chance to attend a snowboard instructor training course popped up, I jumped at it, and that really set my life on its current course. Since that time, the mountains have held me captured, and the rest of life has evolved around them.