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Another few days off work in the land of nod. Nothing special, everything normal. The routine. I am pretty broke so no after skiing naked chicks dancing at the moo-bar or elevation …
storm powder day crowd.
niclas ferin
Sam Favret
sam favret
in the cosmique with Davide demasi
in the cosmique with Davide demasi
in the cosmique with Davide demasi
epaule du tacul with ross hewitt
epaule du tacul with ross hewitt
epaule du tacul with ross hewitt
storm day crowd
a midwinter spleen
Things didnt assembled as planned for this season so i find myself with 5 € to spent this month and the few next. I am Stuck Working a night job only 3 nights a week. That means no coffee, no drugs, no booze… Sounds healthy and happy? Well, it is not ukraines or anything but all of a sudden i dont have any distractions. I see everything as it is- #no filters. And I have plenty of time to reminice…
I miss dwelling in my van . In the desert along the 395 desert rd. Driving up and down, choosing the best mountain. Skin up it. Lunch at the top and ski down. Drink a 6 pack . Find a sweet spot to park and watch the sunset. Go to bed . Repeat. Simple.
I miss the sierra rythme as well. In chamonix , it seems everyone is in a rush always. It is a perpetual rush hour. Everyone loves to be in the mountains but rushes to be back in town by 2pm. Faster, more runs, laps laps laps. There is the february crowd, the march crowd. sometime it is too much. More more more. Faster. Faster.
On the 395 desert road, you get to the base , skin up. Spent quality time at the top just chilling , eating drink a beer maybe. Enjoy time. Slow pace. Then ski. Get back to the car , drink a six pack…watch the sunset.make a fire. Sleep. repeat.
i miss the hot tubs
i miss the joie de vivre, the leisure class. the simplicity of it all.
rant- {In cham everyone is a prorider. You go ski your run fast, meet at the bar. Talk about the gear and your respectives hashtags. Go home , post a picture of that couloir, that radical rap…hashtag-me hashtag-me hashtag-me..thanks this thanks that oscar acceptence speech…all the identical hashtags “like” the picture. Instant gratification. Hashtag is happy.the cult of self. self importance. People are hashtags. Skiing is a vector. Greedy, vain and ambitious skiing personalities (riders,filmers,photographers,industry) are dominating the chamonix ski scene more and more. This is the celebration of Image over substance, of illusion over truth. This is not why I started skiing. In fact, this could be why I stop. or move…
Skiing lost its soul. Everybody is a prorider, a film maker , an actor , a model. Not for creativity, to share a vision or experience but to promote their hashtags. Skiers became live billboard.”The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” . It feels like walking down hollywood boulevard at 2 am. Except on hollywood blvd there is always the dude with a bottle of wiskey in one hand a cig in the other, the pocket filled with all type of gear. Its comforting to know the dude is there….}-end of rant.
Anyway, tmrw is another perfect powder day…
Foehn week and the Föhnkrankheit
A Föhn or Foehn is a type of dry, warm, down-slope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (see orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic lapse rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes. Föhn winds can raise temperatures by as much as 32 °C (58 °F)[1] in just a matter of hours.
Winds of this type are also called “snow-eaters” for their ability to make snow melt or sublimate rapidly. This snow-removing ability is caused not only by warmer temperatures, but also the low relative humidity of the air mass having been stripped of moisture by orographic precipitation coming over the mountain(s).
Föhn winds are notorious among mountaineers in the Alps, especially those climbing the Eiger, for whom the winds add further difficulty in ascending an already difficult peak.
Anecdotally, residents in areas of frequent föhn winds report illnesses ranging from migraines to psychosis. The first clinical review of these effects was published by the Austrian physician, Anton Czermak in the 19th century.[2] A study by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München found that suicide and accidents increased by 10 percent during föhn winds in Central Europe.[citation needed] The causation of Föhnkrankheit (English: Föhn-sickness) is yet unproven.
la palud, italy, mikka merikanto
la palud italy
la palud, italy
minna riihimaki
luca pandolfi
la palud, italy, Nikolai Schirmer
la palud, italy, nathan wallace
nathan wallace
la palud italy, ross hewitt
la palud
Tof Henry, Ollie Herren, Seth Morrison
luca pandolfi, Davide Capozzi
nathan wallace , tom burt
nathan wallace , tom burt, luca pandolfi
Seth Morrison, Ollie Herren, glen Morden
Seth Morrison, Ollie Herren, Nathan Wallace
Nikolai Schirmer
Fluid mag
Its a very nice French ski mag. that edition focuses on chamonix With a few sweet articles, one written by Antoine Grospiron about last year steep season, another about remy Lecluse and the “le zoo de chamonix…” written by young gun Arthur Ghilini painting a fun-razor edged description of the chamonix scenes!
And of course a few of my pictures 😉
Also Sam Favret portrait of a chamoniard!
not my picture just the cover
just another 50 and its perfect.
Again i went to the midi with no specific plans or partners. I ended up following Oli and Hugo. A sweet run down granver. james bonding it back to cham, That is sweet. Then a rond to les bossons exit which needs another 50cm layers of snow to be perfect …I could have done a third run, Im working tonight so i had to go take a nap.
Oli Herren
Hugo Harrisson
Hugo Harrisson
Hugo Harrisson
FWT
Cedric Bernardini 