Dominique Vallée

27.03.2010 | comments [0]

I just got back from one of the best trips of my life. I went riding in Greece for a Snowboard Canada Magazine story with Eric Green, Justin Van Der Poelen and photograper Geoff Andruik. We got to Athens to sleep the night and went straight up to Vasilitsa resort pretty much in the middle of Greece. It took us 9 hours ot get there from Athens, we did get lost a few times too. Once we finally got to the hill it was almost night time and a huge wind/ snowstorm came in. It was sooooo cold, i never thought i'd be this cold in Greece ever!!!!! Are mini-Fiat with 4 huge boardbags on the roff couldn't make it very far and we had to walk our luggage up the road, a good 2 km's to go stay in the 1850 lodge on themiddle of the mountain.

It was amazing, the friends we met, the area and the nest morning we woke-up to 1meter of snow and sunshine for the rest of the week. We hit the best powder turns, backcountry jumps and cliff drops ever. We never thought we woud hit it this good in Greece. After a week there we went to another resort closer to Athens called Parnassos. We stayed in the Van's house and rode the mountain the next day but we were all so sore from our big week that we just wanted to go and live Greece at it's best in Athens and then hit a real Greek party Island: Mykonos.

Off we went to stay at our friend/best snowboarder of Greece: Mike in Athens to visit ancient greece and take the ferry to Mykonos for 3 days before we had to leave back to Canada. We had such good weather everywhere we went and we even had a dip in the beautiful azul blue water of the Greek Island. I was pretty much freezing the whole time but it was sooo worth it.

Great crew, great snow and really greecy.

Best trip ever.

dom