After an hectic pre season I was ready and excited to
leave to Austria with my friend Vanessa Andrieux. We go there every year to
find good snow condition, I was all packed, board and bags in my trunk and as i
was driving back from Barcelona it started dumping everywhere, and by the time
i was in Switzerland my home mountains were covered by a good 60cm of fresh
snow !
This is when we both decided to join the Demonium base
camp in les diablerets (definitely the best place to stay, hang, mini shred and
skate up there) and shoot a couple things home before heading to the austrian
mountains. We waisted the first day looking for features to shoot along the
road and at 12pm, after 3 hours driving around for nothing, we decided to go up
on the mountain and shred. luckily the place wasn’t totally tracked yet, I
found a couple good friends at the first chair lift, they took me to the good
spot and I got chest deep for my first run of the winter !! I can’t remember a
better start of the season ever ! sik !
The next day we built a kicker with Eman, Damien, Nico
and Tonton not too far from the road in a safe area as avalanche danger was
quite high at that time. It was fun to be shaping a kicker already. The snow
was deep in the landing, the sun was shining we had a good thermos with hot tea
and good meet, cheese, bread and chocolate. Family style !
After that we joined Nicolas Droz in Chatel to get a
couple shots, each day we were pushing the austrian destination a bit later and
we finally never made it there.
That’s when my friend Annie Boulanger called, there was
no snow in whistler and she jumped in the plane to come shred with me.. I was
so stoked to have her here because I m always the one going to canada or US and
for once I got to show my place to a good friend ! as soon as she got off the
plane we called Jonas Emery who could eventually give us heads up on the
conditions where he was staying.. and we ended up staying at his place for a
good 4 days.. We got sik tree runs in still really good snow on our first day
and it dumped overnight !! We went to Verbier the next day, same thing, good
tree pow runs under the cabin, and the great thing is that no one was on the
slopes before christmas ! We joined Emilien Badoux the next day for the same
luck with sunshine this time!
After that we headed to my home resort with my both of my
parents my cousin, my boyfriend and 2 other good friends with whom we shredded
all weekend.. It really felt like christmas !
This last couple of weeks were such a blast, I got to
practice some Quebecquien expressions, I got to shred for the fun of it which
happens very rarely, i got to stay at my grand parents cabin and the conditions
were fantastic !
That was definitely my best christmas present this year..
and i wish you just as much fun and good shred !
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