The Alps under high pressure, we can’t breath in Chamonix. Skiing can still be fun , sometime finding pockets of ancestral cold powder, some fun days out here and there with good company…

mont blanc

flo tomei

rosanna.hughes

aiguille du midi

aiguille du midi

somewhere in italy

giulia monego

giulia monego-Davide de masi

giulia monego

giulia monego-davide capozzi
At the top of a powder face , binding broke. Luckily the snowboarder Davide Capozzi comes to the rescue with a spare toe binding in his pocket and a screwdriver . pretty unusual-random. saved the day.


davide capozzi-davide de masi

giulia monego-davide capozzi

giulia monego
December 9, 2016 | Categories: 2016, blogus, ski | Tags: aiguille du midi, chamonix, italy, mont blanc, powder | Leave a comment
it is a sweet delicacy to dive neck deep in fluffy snow after such a dark and heavy period where the French were hit at the very heart of their laic culture of blasphemy and irreverence towards the rich-powerful sacred and not , they were hit deep in the altar giving us corrosive and offensive humour targeting the absurdities of our world. The leftists French laic will remain impertinent and insolent against power , tyranny and intolerance sacred or not …hopefully.
One classic grand montet storm day followed by one classic la palud blue bird day were perfect to forget this absurd world. Powder all the way.
A shameless storm day At Grand Montet













Irreverent face shots
An Offensive day in la Palud, Italy













Galleria
January 19, 2015 | Categories: 2015, blogus, ranting, ski | Tags: alpes, alps, ben briggs, brendon, bruno compagnet, 细雪, 雪, 边远地区滑雪, france, italy, michelle blaydon, mina riihimaki, powder, ross hewitt, ski, tomaso cardelli, 山, 极限滑雪 | Leave a comment
Back to La Palud , Coffee with luisa and straight into the little tin can. The only skiers are me , ben, francois and Casa…It is still summer on the entire lower part , chamois are happily getting fat and we hope the second half will have enough snow to get a few free ride turns. Not. It is thin , too thin to even try. There is surely 2 or 3 good turns. that is it. We go on a stroll to look at the higher world. It is white and red . Everything. beauty. If you enjoy ice axes, crampons and jump turns…it is your season!


tour ronde, mont blanc

tour ronde, mont blanc, Tacul


November 30, 2014 | Categories: 2014, 2015, blogus, ski | Tags: ben briggs, italy, la palud, mont blanc, mont blanc du tacul | Leave a comment
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January 21, 2013 | Categories: 2013, blogus, ski | Tags: hellbroner, italy, luca pandolfi, marbree, montagne, nountains, palud, powder, storm | 1 Comment
La Palud is a 30 min drive from chamonix under a tunnel…And a very different atmosphere.
you start by having coffee and breakfast


then you wait at a massive and stressful line .



and you you go for a run


and one more runs




david rosenbarger, aiguille du midi, chamonix mont blanc
and yes..you go again





you end the day with pizza and beer


bonus






simple.
December 12, 2012 | Categories: 2012, blogus, ski | Tags: david rosenbarger, freeriding, hellbroner, italie, italy, la palud, luca pandolfi, pavillon, poudreuse, powder | 1 Comment
harvesting corn on the tour ronde was just perfect. fuck extreme skiing! and fuck that hair on my sensor.












May 14, 2012 | Categories: 2012, blogus, ski, steep and not so steep | Tags: アルプス, オー, スキー, スノーボード, フリーライド, プランタン, モンブラン, berge, 白, Монблан, большой линии, вода, горы, лыжах, eau, 過激な, 雪, Gletser, groot, humide, italy, montagne, mooi, mountains, pentu, powder, printemps, rad, raide, skerp, skeur, ski, sneeu, snow, spring, steep and not so steep, والمياه،, water, wit, ys, 急, التزلج على الجليد, الجبال, حاد،, ربيع، هوسمان، | 1 Comment

April 3, 2012 | Categories: 2012, steep and not so steep | Tags: adolphe rey, aiguille du midi, アルプス, スノーボード, フランス, モンブラン, beau, capucin, chamonix, courte, 白, dent du geant. tacul, diable, Монблан, большой линии, горы, лыжах, escalade de glace, 過激な, 雪, france, freeride, gervasutti, glace, grand, grande jorasse, hellbroner, ice climbing, italie, italy, maudit, midi, mont blanc, montagne, neige, plan, playground, powder, rad, raide, snow, steep and not so steep, مسحوق, vierge, yager, 山, 急, التزلج على الجليد, الجبال | Leave a comment
My friend Kevin who I met riding in Mammoth lakes california is visiting cham for the first time. We havent seen each other since i moved to Chamonix and he moved to Montana (is there mountains there?). So what a better way to introduce him to cham and to what Ive been doing for the past 5 years than to take him in the heart of it all: Les jardins de talefre. Loaded with wiskey, pastis and cigarettes we go on his first ride up the aiguille du midi and on to the refuge du couvercle on a 2 days trip. My 2 rad friends Brendan and Magnus joined us for the first day. We skied the croulante and the col des droites. both in good conditions. The col des droites was perfect corn top to bottom and is a great run, i have being denying that run over the more aggressive runs around for a long time and it ended up being the best skiing i’ve had in that basin. Dumb me. Despite a crampon coming off his soft snowboard boots , kevin did great and came back in one piece. We would have stayed another week there, but we ran out of booze, cigarettes and snus…

































April 1, 2012 | Categories: 2012, blogus, ski, steep and not so steep | Tags: aiguille du midi, argentiere, アルプス, スキー, スノーボード, フランス, フリーライド, モンブラン, big, cedric bernardini, chamonix, chardonnet, courte, croulante, 白, Монблан, большой линии, горы, лыжах, escalade de glace, 過激な, 雪, france, freeride, glace, grand, italy, mont blanc, montagne, mountains, neige, powder, rad, raide, snow, steep and not so steep, sunset, مسحوق, 山, 急, التزلج على الجليد, الجبال | 4 Comments

luca pandolfi
March 5, 2012 | Categories: 2012, blogus | Tags: aosta, アルプス, スキー, スノーボード, フランス, フリーライド, モンブラン, cormayeur, 白, 過激な, 雪, hellbroner, italy, luca pandolfi, montagne, mountains, neige, powder, snowboard, 山, 急 | 1 Comment
just that.

ice climb map







ryan in the hole
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February 25, 2012 | Categories: 2012, blogus, ice climbing | Tags: aosta, beau, beer, brett lotz, cedric bernardini, cogne, escalade de glace, gelato, glace, ice climbing, italie, italy, pizza, ryan boyer, thor husted, water | 2 Comments
Need I say more?

brett

brett ryan and expresso

ryan getting it


brett

powder turn

tele turn
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pizza wine and gnocci

brett
February 20, 2012 | Categories: 2012, blogus, ski | Tags: aosta, アルプス, スキー, スノーボード, フランス, フリーライド, モンブラン, beau, beer, brett lotz, cedric bernardini, chamonix, 白, 過激な, 雪, france, freeride, grand, hellbroner, italie, italy, marbree, montagne, mountains, neige, pavillon, pizza, powder, rad, raide, ryan boyer, 山, 急 | 2 Comments