Martin’s Snowboarding Holiday in Portes du Soleil. The “crew” of two came up with the idea, scripted, acted, filmed, directed and edited this parody holiday video on an old DV handheld and an iPhone over the course of a few days of snow-covered downhill fun. Most footage is from the off-piste areas around Les Combes and Proclou; the rest is shot in and around Morzine. Music is obviously copyright by the original holders, but the video is ours.

Yesterday the conditions in Morzine, Les Gets and Avoriaz we awful: rain during the night had turned snow into slush, and packed snow into ice. The walk from the flat into town was treacherous, and the people I spoke to in the town had stories of their own small personal disasters from bad falls to car crashes. The pistes were carnage too: visibility was poor to non-existent thanks to the high humidity condensing on goggles and glasses; constantly falling snow, slush and rain made visibility even worse; leg-breaker snow jostled for prime positioning on the slopes with ice patches.