dont follow tracks
Or how Michael “bird” Shaffer, JT Holmes and Valentin Delluc are showing skiers/snowboarders a new style of getting out of runs without dicking around with ropes or sidestepping shit snow.
valentin delluc
jt holmes
jt holmes
jt holmes
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
valentin delluc
michael shaffer
michael shaffer
January
January was as hectic as December if not more. Massive amount of precep, rain, wind, snow . 100 of chalets evacuated, avalanche’s wind blowing chalet out, 2 lifts broken, some buried, road broken. Chamonix mostly closed, twice under avi level 5. We spent most of that time skiing Pavillon in italy , in the lowers hellbroner (skyway) feeling somewhat safe or not (it just happened to be open), eating pizza, drinking beers, enjoying the sun the few time it was around. I was mostly in the dark, sometime under heavy snow falling, testing the limitations of my cameras/lens and my abilities… I had One day only up the aiguille du midi skiing a valley blanche. The other few good sunny days, i was working. I also took pictures of the new marker binding release event …… some images are redundant with previous post. Photos in total disorder. During a couple of sunny windows, a lot of the argentiere basin steep runs got skied. I had to work shuttling people around most those days but that is hope.
marker alpinist
marker alpinist
stian hagen
griffin post
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
Dyane Devey
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Griffin Post
griffin post
Colter Hinchliffe
ross hewitt
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
davide demasi
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Dyane Devey
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Johanna Stalnacke
Griffin Post
Johanna Stalnacke
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
dave searle
dave searle
Griffin Post
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
jeremy bogen
Griffin Post
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
ben briggs
Griffin Post
davide demasi
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
Tim Durtschi
Colter Hinchliffe
Colter Hinchliffe
Tim Durtschi
Tim Durtschi
Tim Durtschi
Colter Hinchliffe
dave searle
Tim Durtschi
Colter Hinchliffe
moo bar
Black and white album 2
experiment on a 2 weeks images…
dave searle
tim durtschi
tim durtschi
tim durtschi
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
tim durtschi
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
ben briggs
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
griffin post
davide demasi
griffin post
griffin post
griffin post
colter hinchliff
griffin post
griffin post
griffin post
colter hinchliff
dyane dvy
griffin post
colter hinchliff
griffin post
griffin post
colter hinchliff
griffin post
griffin post
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
griffin post
johanna smilla stalnacke
davide demasi
colter hinchliff
griffin post
colter hinchliff
colter hinchliff
griffin post
Pre-season 2017-2018
This pre season started better than the last 4 years, we got hit by a few big storms. Yet we are now dealing with abnormal temp fluctuation bringing the iso 0 from 800M to 2000M back and forth with a lot of precipitations. Which makes it hard to ski anything. It is forecasted for the next 10 days so we have to be patient. I am pretty sure , when the weather will calm down , it will be sick skiing, top to bottom. I had to work most of that time so skiing at lunch break mostly , alone more often than not. I got some epic forrest skiing sometime meeting with fun crews….
A nice early season scenic training hike with Davide De masi and Dyane Dvy
Davide Demasi
aiguille du midi, mont blanc under clouds
Dyane Dvy
On a lunch break i met with Ross Hewitt, johanna smilla stalnacke and Michelle Blaydon for an epic plan de l aiguille session
johanna smilla stalnacke
johanna smilla stalnacke
johanna smilla stalnacke
Ross Hewitt
johanna smilla stalnacke, michelle blaydon
johanna smilla stalnacke, michelle blaydon
johanna smilla stalnacke, michelle blaydon
johanna smilla stalnacke
johanna smilla stalnacke
johanna smilla stalnacke
A day under the super classic Val Veny cable line with Luca Rolli and Luca Pandolfi.It was new to me and despite seeing that run from the lift as we go up, it is very intimidating and not so straight forward, steep and very exposed. I was happy to be with Rolli who is conservative in the way he approaches this kind of run…
luca pandolfi
luca pandolfi
luca pandolfi
luca pandolfi
Luca Rolli
luca pandolfi
Luca Rolli
A day at the montenvert forrest delight with Ross Hewitt and Michelle Blaydon
michelle braydon, Ross hewitt
michelle braydon, Ross hewitt
Ross hewitt
michelle Blaydon
Ross Hewitt
An epic lunch brake with Glenn Plake his wife Kimberley and the son of Remy Lecluse at the plan de l ‘aiguille…
Glen Plake, Lecluse
Glen Plake
Glen-Kimberley Plake,Lecluse
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
Glen Plake
As i am writing this , we have a 5/5 avalanche risk which i have never seen in the 12 years here in cham….or maybe once. Mostly due to heavy snow fall over 2000 meters and heavy snow and rain under 2000 meters 
aiguille du midi morning TV
tof henry
arthur ghilini , tof henry, millet papy, leo slemmett waiting for a slab to go…
free ride world tour, verbier.
powerful Humans skiing. It is such strong skiing down a gnarly face. Very impressive. I was posted at the very top of a mountain across the face so i couldn’t hear who was going and which start. Getting a shot was alike posting myself in the Zambian bush to wait for an animal to cross path. When it happened , i wasn’t sure who and sometime the time to get my camera at the right spot was too late. Oh well. 
the grand mulet hut and Mont blanc.
Grand mulet hut, mont blanc , chamonix
December
My only day off in over a month and the first night it snowed side ways in chamonix all winter. Nicklas told me grand montet was all time yesterday . I’m watching today’s videos of hellbroner italy sort of making my decision .Italy. Morning comes, there is at least 50 cm on the ground, i go for grand montet threatening nicklas to kill him if there is more than 10 peeps and no powder. I drive up. junk show. CRAP! Thinking i should turn around and head for hellbroner. Anyways…after all. it was an amazing days , no people and first time i ski those bottom couloirs in 3 years. it felt like a december . no , really it was.
Searching for angles.
I wanted to search for a good angle to take skiers with my 400 mm, i think it would make a cool frame . I called Nat segal an excellent skier who is currently in Chamonix. Unfortunately the winds have worked the snow and we couldn’t really find all the elements for the frame i wanted. I switched to my 100 and we just rode brevent flegere, sometime stopping for a shot…the snow was variable which is good for training. I guess. 
nat smiles
