After failing to advance from yesterday's Burton Slopestyle qualifier at Cardrona, Hyne will spend the week filming the next episode of the blog, focusing on the Burton Open.
The 2005 winner of the open, Hyne has since changed his focus to snowboarding media, with more time spent off-slope producing the blogs and writing for snowboarding publications.
"Quite the opposite; it creates opportunities. But if we are doing a story that means a few days of organisation."
Alternating between winters in Queenstown and Japan, the 26-year-old spends his time boarding in competitions and, for fun, writing and filming episodes of Diaries Downunder.
A project started with fellow Queenstowner Ben Ryan four years ago, the video blog follows Hyne as he documents the adventures of top snowboarders exploring the South Island's snow terrain.
Of late, the blog has featured in Air New Zealand's in-flight videos, Destination Queenstown promotions, as well as websites and magazines.
The most recent episodes showcase snowboarding in the Remarkables back country, and riders enjoying the results of July's snow storms, with Hyne now filming the next episode on the Burton Open.
With competing on the back-burner, he is content to explore the opportunities presented by his unique job, but remains impressed by some of the talent he finds himself up against.
"The level's gone crazy," Hyne said of the riders featuring in the Burton Open.
"With filming it's hard to keep up with. It seems some of the best boarders in the world are 16 [years old] now."
