It was off in to town to celebrate the day and Matt's stag once we had finished:
Matt got stuck in to the "Monster burger", which freaked Crazy out:
Richard enjoyed his beer:
Crazy sat around thinking about the state of his board:
After his beer, Richard decided to pose for Vogue Magazine:
While Crazy decided to get a little, um, crazy with the next beer order:
Wasn't long before we got a little nuts, it was so overwhelming Matt couldn't open his eyes:
Richard, shaking that booty so well...
... that he ended up scoring:
Matt wiping his sweaty brow from trying to get through his beer while Richard is all sad, because his beer is all gone:
The morning over was pretty harsh... well... on some of us!
We were so smashed the next day in fact, that we didn't get up till after lunch and decided to write off the day snowboarding!
Turned out to be a great day though, we wandered around Engelberg village, something you never get around to on most ski trips:
Night time view:
View down the main street:
Matt told us that chicks stand with one foot in front of the other when they're in photos so they don't look as fat. Seeing as we're fat baastards we thought we'd try it out, look how slim we look!
This is actually a piste, minus the snow (dah)
Late afternoon, shadows from other mountains starting to cover up this one:
The reason we didn't manage to get out snowboarding that day, the infamous Yucatan bar:
Was another spectacular day on the Sunday. This was the day crazy had his tumble down the glacier. I'll copy the section out of my Dear Diary and paste it in here so you can all enjoy again:
01/04/08
I thought I'd post this to serve as a warning to everyone (and for shock value entertainment).
Although I'm posting this on April the 1st, it's not an April fools joke! Happened a couple of days ago. I'll put up a full page of amusing and scenic photos of our Engelberg snowboard trip soon.
John sent out this email:
...I accidentally fwucked myself up on the weekend in Engelberg,
Switzerland.
Check out the image enclosed to get a feel for the magnitude of
my most recent error of judgement.
I've had to take the day off today, tomorrow - and I'll have to
then re-evaluate Wednesday onward.
Basically my lower back, right torso and arm got smashed up
(although no tail-bone, skin savaged or bones were broken which
is a bonus!).
My whole lower back has puffed up massive and it took me a good
three or four minutes to get out of bed at lunch-time as the
body wasn't responding to the brains signals; strange sensation.
Very scary. Literally was incapacitated (seems much better when
upright though).
Anyways; have a giggle at my expense...
Cheers,
John
I replied with this:
Just to clarify the numbers and line that crazy added on the pic I took (which doesn’t really show just how steep everything is, I took the pic pointing the camera up hill). Near the beginning of the line is where crazy decided to detour from the trail that I scouted out and Matt took. I started screaming “NO, NO!!!!” as I knew that what was going through Crazy’s head would’ve been “hmm, fresh untracked powder! I’ll carve THAT up!”.
Crazy managed to stop and fall on his arse at point 1 just as he heard Matt yelling “NOOOOO” as well, but by then it was too late. He paused at that point for about 1 second before he lost traction on the glacier ice just below the wind swept powder and started bouncing and falling down to point 2, snowboard first fortunately...
At point 2 after he had gathered quite a bit of speed sliding down the ice face, his snowboard hit the powdery bit which caused him to perform a couple of sideways cartwheels and flip before he finally slammed in to the power/ice at point 3. He bounced back up in to the air at least once, limbs flailing about uncontrollably as he flipped through the air, doing about 2 summersaults until he crashed back down at that first shadow in the snow. It was at this point I knew I’d have to call emergency services to air lift him out. He continued to roll, flip, tumble through the powder and air until he finally slid to a stop where you can see him with Matt in the pic.
Astoundingly, after only 5 or so second of lying in a limp, crumpled heap in the power, Crazy lifted an arm up, which I’m damn glad he did because at that point I had no idea if he was alive, it was quite a horrific fall to witness. Matt traversed over to him, he eventually sat up and after 5-10mins of rest he very cautiously made his way down the mountain while Matt and I continued the best powder run of the trip.
The pic also doesn’t really give justice to the distance he fell. If you take Matt who is standing up, shrink him down a wee bit more to take in to account how much closer he is to the camera than the cliff and then stack him end to end from point 1 to 3, you’ll have more of an idea.
I’ve also attached another pic showing the overall mountain face that Crazy knew he was going down with an arrow pointing to the point where this all happened.
Crazy, I’ve seen you use up about 8 lives now over the years. You have no more left. Please don’t make any more judgement calls involving safety. Every time you feel pain over the next few weeks, think of what I’ve just said.
Hope you get better soon!
Tony.
04/04/08
Just in case you thought I was exaggerating Crazy's fall, Crazy has sent me pics showing the damage.
It's worse when he shows you in person! You can't help but say "HOLY SHIIIIT!!!" when you see it...
Anyway, Crazy is FINALLY back at work today after being laid up in bed for the past week and a half.
Here's a view, right at the end of our last run, gazing over Engelberg:
Then it was off to the train (enjoying perfect Swiss timing with train departures and arrivals):
Enjoying the fantastic view all the way to the airport:
Of course after enjoying swift and the perfectly timed Swiss airport, trains and busses, our English based EasyJet flight was delayed an hour and a half and luggage at Stansted (after the 30min passport control queue) took an age to arrive. Welcome back to the UK!