Article in the Sunday Times today, Downhill all the way. It's an intro to the sport, where and how kind of thing. The guy went to Aaron Adventure Centre to learn.

Even with grazes the size of my head — and butt bruises the colour of the blackberry bushes I fell to avoid — mountainboarding was a fabulous experience. Alarming, but fabulous. It’s snowboarding without the overdraft and melting snow; or, rather, it’s a slightly shabby, eccentric country cousin of snowboarding, one you can call in on at the last minute, who doesn’t care what you look like — and who won’t nick your wallet while you’re looking the other way.