Winter 2012/13

You should watch their En Route series. Essentially outtakes from the movies (along with some that are it in) with some extra stuff added in. Really good watches and great skiing too...
 
How the hell does one go from doing reasonable jumps to 50+feet that you see in some of their videos though, let alone summersaults/flips/etc. I guess I'm starting too old to be able to have the confidence for that.
 
platypus said:
How the hell does one go from doing reasonable jumps to 50+feet that you see in some of their videos though, let alone summersaults/flips/etc. I guess I'm starting too old to be able to have the confidence for that.
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To hit really big drops you have to build it up slowly (unless you're a nutcase) and that means living in the mountains where the conditions are consistently good enough that'll you'll be able to try it and also know the areas well enough that on a powder day you can know exactly your line and go and hit it. Difficult to do with a week or two a year in unfamiliar resorts.
 
Doesn't look like I'll get away until Easter (still deciding if its worth it).

All the snow reports are doing my head in. Great conditions in Scotland and the Alps and I'm stuck in Uni until the end of March.
 
He really is a complete machine. He looks completely comfortable anywhere on the mountain. Throwing nose butters off drops we'd take half an hour to build up the courage to straight air.
 
Nose Butter. I want to know who came up with that.

"Dude that was awesome! What was it?!"
"Er, yeah that was a totally rad <thinks front of ski, sure>Nose<looks around desperately and seems some butter on the table>Butter of course!"
"Oh yeah! A nose butter."

Cause the alternative "I had a runny nose and was trying to clean it in the air" doesn't go so well.
 
Haha. It comes from snowboarding where they've been doing butters for years :p

Chris Benchetler has great style too. Good chesty shot of him doing a nose butter 5' off a drop in this
 
I'm trying to find which TGR movie they were showing at a bar in Revelstoke last week. Think it may have been this one
! it was one of the best film I'd seen for a while. Need to find a copy.
 
Absolutely epic day of powder in Chamonix today, the real snow was Wednesday night but we got perfect conditions today anyway (was working Thurs). Lapping the off-piste off Tete de Balme in Le Tour. Honestly my best day ever.

To anyone that ever makes it to Chamonix DEFINITELY hire a good guide. The resort comes alive as soon as you get away from the piste, often with only a 10-20 minute hike you get a completely untouched run with no lift in sight. Incredible.
 
Jokester said:
Jealous.

How do you find it there? Was looking to go end of Feb but never got anything organised.
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I liked it a lot, good combination of alpine bowls and great tree skiing. Whilst it snowed while I was there it was never the waist deep powder-fest I'd hoped for. Still enough snow to explore and do some decent drops but you know how it is when you've set your expectations so high.

It will me a mammoth place when they've fully developed it. There are only 3 lifts currently and they plan to have in excess of 20. They had better build a park too as that was a bit of a negative for me.

We did a little tour of BC, Red Mountain, Valhalla, Rev, Kicking Horse. Rev was my favourite but all of them have tiny towns so unless you get epic snow 5 or 6 days is enough at each.
 
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