I used to ski as a little kid at Falls Creek then my dad got us more heavily into surfing and windsurfing and I didn't make it back to the snow for 20 years. I first tried snowboarding for a couple of days at Mt Buller in 2006 and was hooked immediately. Coming at it from a surfing, windsurfing and skateboarding background it feels so much more natural to me than skiing.
I had 10 days in NZ at the start of the 2007 season and broke my wrist on the last day which made me miss most of the rest of the Aussie winter. In 2008 I did maybe half a dozen day trips to Buller and a week long trip to