RIDE – a family reunion

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A lazy start

It’s Saturday morning and this weekend is our annual Ride Swiss Family reunion taking place, this year, in Wildhaus in Kanton St Gallen.
It’s 8am – too early for a Saturday morning – when I sent a message to Isa Derubs asking to move our 8:30 meeting to 9. Our final adjustment got settled at 9:30. Surprisingly, we arrived just on time for the official Ride gathering taking place at 12 in the chill area of the snowpark. Once up there, we got hyped and there was no chill time for us. One sausage quickly swallowed and the whole team set on the lift towards the top of the mountain.

The never-ending run

“It’s a little long for a park lift” – I mentioned. That’s when I realized that I didn’t get the memo: we were riding the famous spring session of Wildhaus supported by Ride, Redbull, K2… The event was apparently very famous. My usual ignorance allowed the crowd to have a good laugh and I didn’t bother asking for more info – I will get to see the park in just a few minutes. Arriving on the top, the never-ending slope through the woods stared. DREAMLAND! Corner here, hip there, jump on this side and wall ride on the other… Everything made out of wood or snow. I couldn’t decide where to start but apparently the guys had found their lines already while taking off full speed heading for the first hip. To the moon and beyond!!! The guys were sending it and the whole family was cheering. Everyone felt integrated and supported by the team. We couldn’t imagine a better place to have a crew weekend. The weather was warm and sunny, the snow was slushy, the slope was fun and the beers were cold.

The rest of the day keeps rolling on this nice flow: a few long runs, some beers with maybe a sausage, pig pong in the sun and many snow balls battles. Everyone enjoyed themselves and by the end of the day we were destroyed.

Strong come back

The evening was as we started the day: lazy! For my part, by back was killing me and everyone was feeling heavy. We all shared dinner escorted by the endless unnecessary comments from Denis! God, this guy never stops!

In the morning everyone was ready to go full send! Croissant, coffee, bathroom and we were ready! From the first 2 runs, Sam had one footed the rocky cliff, Mathieu under-flipped the first obstacle, Yannick method the hip without ever reaching earth anymore. We took out the camera to capture some of these tricks and then the sun and the smell of the grill were calling. One more hour of chilling before we headed back to rainy Zurich.

Thank you Ride Snowboard for the great weekend and thanks to all the family members for joining. We are psyched to be part of the team.

Pictures: Nicki Antognini
Words: Nicki Antognini & Dries Meeschaert
Locations: Wildhaus, Switzerland
Thanks to: Ride Snowboard, because you are family