Pas de la Casa - 1998
My second holiday. Pas de la Casa is in Andorra, which is situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains. We went over the christmas period. It was weird waking up on christmas morning and everyone just went sking/snowboarding like any other day. It felt like christmas just didn't exist. We were there too early in the season. Not enough snow for the fun park to be built, rocks poking through on the lower slopes (my mate badly dinked his edge rail). Plus the terrain in Andorra is very tame, hardly any cliffs to drop off. We did find a bowl with untracked powder in it. It was a week old and the powder had a thin crust on top, so riding accross it felt like you were an icebreaker ship. You'd rise up and when your weight got too much for the crust you'd suddenly drop as it broke. I caught a hidden rock and got catapulted head first into the snow. My head acted as a pivot as my body and board carried on over the top. My head then got wrenched out of the snow, leaving my goggles and beanie embedded in the snow. Funny thing is because i was travelling at a fair speed when it happened i got whiplash injuries. Didn't know till the next day though when it felt like i'd broken my neck! We had fun and i got a bit of video but its just too tame compared with the alps. I wouldn't go to Andorra again.