Another update from Anna Barry, who seems to be having a blast in Europe at the moment. Here is her summary of her trip  to the Nikita Goodie Lady Session in Thyon, Valis, Switzerland.

It was a morning of all mornings that included 3 hours of driving, 3 coffee stops, 3 stops to ask for directions, 3 inches of snow/ice to be negotiated on the road, 3 forgotten passports (NB only to be discovered at border control) 3 snowboarders and one photographer had arrived in what some would call ‘style’ at Thyon, Switzerland to three foot of fresh snow.
Hmmm – by this stage I was ready for my fourth coffee of the morning and it was only 9am! We - Gilly Seagrave, Emma Lee Rogers, Jo Chastney and myself made the journey over from Morzine to attend the Nikita Goodie Lady Session organized by Nikita rider, Maude Richon. 
 The morning started slowly, with the park crew at Thyon working overtime to get the competition underway and deal with the 3ft of fresh snow that had fallen overnight. With a minor delay in the startof the competition – there was enough time to sneak a few cheeky tree runs in and take full advantage of the new snow.

Gilly havin a picnic!

The morning weather wasn’t the best for competition with visibility fading in and out,temperature plus wind chill pushing well into the minuses, the competition was going to be tough. A jib style section of the contest started the event off. The girls had ample choice of rails to hit consisting of a battleship, c-box, s-box and the picnic table. Girls jibbed for well over an hour, before continuing on  with the second stage of competition hitting two kickers for the afternoon - in a jam format.

Jo gapping the battleship rail.

Maude attacking the kicker

The girls were throwing down, with a variety of tricks -  Cab 3’s, to big shifty lofty backside ones to some serious technical tricks on the rails. It was Jo Chastney a member of the morning madness that took the whole event scoring a fistful of Swiss Francs, a Dakine travel bag stuffed with a bunch of goodies and a wildcard entry to ‘Intergirlacktik’ held at Les 2 Alpes in April. Where she will compete against the world’s best female riders.

Winner - Jo Chastney complete with novelty cheque and crown!!

All the girls competing were stoked on the competition and all came away with a prize – a super fun day all round.
A big thanks must go out to Maude for organizing the competition, Thyon park crew for making it happen, all the girls who competed and Emma for keeping me sane whilst I was attempting to take photos in what I thought was one of the coldest days

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