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Rock Boarding
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Dedicated to boarding or skiing downhill on a rubble field. Rock-boarding is literally the hardest sport you have ever seen! Regular winter equipment, skis, telemark skis, but mainly snowboards are being used to board/ski a slope of rubbles. The rocks are the size from a plum to a huge fist. Most favorable, the rubble slope should have an inclination of 100% or the steeper the better! It is suicidal to downhill the rubble slope in a straight line! Too much speed will be gained and nowhere to go!
Some snowboard freaks started rock-boarding in 1992! Already in 1995 they organized the first race! Until now, this rock-boarding contest is held every year in Kandersteg in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. As of today it is the one and only of this kind worldwide. Additionally to the
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