The ace of blades

In a very scary twist , pro skier, film star and general all around nice guy, Pat Sharples has been spotted on several occasions, once with Andy Robinson and then on a love ski with the lovely Vanessa, sliding down the mountain, not on his orange ten eighties, but on a pair of blades. A Salomon spokesman said 'Although we encourage are team riders to experience other forms of winter sport anyone found showing too much enthusiasm for blades (over proper skis) will be taken in a dark room and given a damn good slapping with a wet herring , failing that we will ask them to go and sign for Armada'.