The executive decision was made last week for the entire marketing department, of which I am part, to skip work on Tuesday and head up to the Pyrenees for a day of much-needed snow fun.

7am, rise and shine!

24 of us went skiing that day, but 14 of us decided to head up the night before and have a pajama party at Aurelia’s cabin in the mountains. And what a good idea that was! I see these people everyday at the office but, after a year and a half, I didn’t really know many of them. Ages ranged from 20’s to 40’s but it felt like we were back at university. We all stayed up a little too late playing drinking games and team-building exercises (in that order).

I spent most of the next day with the four other snowboarders of the group but, while all 24 of us were together, everyone was surprised at how fast we were able to bomb down the mountain. Usually with large groups you inevitably find yourself stopping and waiting every 100 meters for the few slow-pokes to catch up but this wasn’t the case at all. Pretty much everyone had mad skillz. That and the variable sunshine and choice snow conditions made the day a wonderful success.

As I discovered a couple of years ago, I enjoy bringing my camera with me on ski trips. Not so much for the off-piste antics, but more for the swooshing and slaloming. I like filming other people while I snowboard down the mountain at full speed – the fear of slamming and losing my camera under a mound of powder adds that extra little bit of adrenaline that is the cream in my coffee. I posted all my photos to the company server so everyone could see, but I didn’t post any of the videos. I wanted to edit them together into a pretty little package first. So here it is, my latest ski video: