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I can confirm that the Pyrenees are going off right now! My impression though, based on recent experiences, is that many resorts aren't especially good at dealing with the logistical and issues...

Some of the craziest reports I've ever seen coming out of the pyrenees this week. Many resorts in the North West reporting >200cm since saturday... in town and still going strong! I'm gonna be...

thanks for the advice man, I'll check it out!

thanks for the advice. How about trees? BB is good for trees? Piste map not totally clear...

^what did I miss? It looks to me like BB is much further and more snow is forecast further North/West? I've bailed on this weekend in favour of next due to concerns about base for this immediate...

Hi Guys,

I'm sure there is beta on this in the SFTE thread but I just can't face 480 pages of combing.

I'm newly based near Bayonne and need some info on the mountains in these parts. I have a...

just got mine yesterday. It's fucking spectacular.

I bought it from my local Quik store in SW France. I asked the assistant if they had Candide's new film and the dude was like, who? I very...

slow morning at work bump

This, I realise, is a series of hugely unlikely classifieds but I was putting em up on more conventional channels and I thought if a Mag wanted em, so much the better.

So without further ado:
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Almost all the tree runs are straight off the lifts. Most of the higher alpine shots here are 20-30mins walk apart from the zone which I've called the end of the rainbow, which is about a 30 minute...

Les Tufs Couloirs in Tignes. There's loads of them.
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll186/Rastafarider/P1020553.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll186/Rastafarider/P1020559-1.jpg
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Then the weather changed. We threw this on.
Alabama Shakes- Rise to the Sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPM27mPK2EU

Heeded its message and got up there.
...

Quite a winter. Zero snow for the opening. 25 Degrees during the day into December. Celsius. World Cup race cancelled due to lack of snow. Nice birds though.
...

+1 For the Tarentaise area. Depending on your priorities I'd say it'd make the most sense to be based in Val d'Isere. Or Tignes. Or Bourg st Maurice. Or Sainte Foy.

Val d'Isere if you want ski...

so I ordered the cornea's on friday. went for the dhl delivery option from spain to the uk, 1O euros or so. They arrived yesterday (monday). So on my one and only experience of snowinn I'd say...

just ordered some POC corneas from them. was slightly disconcerted when i phoned them up to ask a question about the lenses and the operator sounded like she had never heard of skiing, let alone ski...

If you want proper skiing, start looking at Utah, Jackson, Tahoe etc. as has already been stated. Then wake the fuck up and move to Europe.

Though much of your diatribe is spot on in terms of accuracy, I couldn't help but be reminded of the one POV edit that I've seen recently that was even worse, comprised of nausea inducing jerky...

sure looks fun but I feel like I'm missing something here? Is it supposed to be more fun than 'normal' snowboarding? Seems like a bunch of Rob Machado/Dave Rastovich wannabes riding powder less...

but... but i included a picture of me shredding the park in oversized flourescent clothing originally made for participants of the quasi-identical sport of basketball...

Tall tees and naked dudes...

There were going to be but she said if I put them on the internets she would revoke my rights to go to Butlins :o

Can't jeopardise that I'm afraid

We decided to turn things up a notch so we threw on a heavier tune and jumped around.
Nero: Guilt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2Z32qCYBg

JPM tests it out with some nice airborne mariokart...

We went for a stroll
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll186/Rastafarider/IMG_1227.jpg

The Boring Bootpack
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll186/Rastafarider/IMG_1205.jpg

Mind numbing...

A Tune to hold your hand and make you wish your life was as awesome as mine:
Crystal Fighters: At Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruakMoSvVsY&feature=related

The snow in the Alps is terrible....

Just back from an EPIC week in the Espace Killy. Everything from blower pow, cliff hucking, August temps and of course the requisite quota of beers and Scandi babes!

saw this over on NS. crazy good
1st backflip off fat bastard was perhaps the most stomped backflip off a cliff i've seen and i would think the raddest trick stomped off that air period. unless that...

http://www.freerideworldtour.com/news-detail/items/aurelien-ducroz-mitch-toelderer-janette-hargin-and-anne-flore-marxer-are-the-2011-freeride-world-champion.html

No photos or vid just yet (comp...

http://vimeo.com/20212556

How the fuck is he still alive? At the end he just looks around like he just got out of bed.
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20212556" width="400" height="225"...

A little advice for you Amurkans. Before you come to Europe to ski, don't.

Then do some research into your generalisation "Euro". Britain, for example, is in Europe, and as with most things in...

Goodness me that really is unspeakably rad.

preposterously sick line at the end, especially if that was indeed an enormous 3 off the spine. either way, whole line was charged with confidence and authority, most impressive. now, repeat with the...

much more importantly, how old is the chick who kisses the lense at the start? it would appear to me that she is smoking hot! and she has nice goggles.

more caps lock and exclamation marks required in the thread title!!!!!!

There are few acceptable occasions in life for the acronym OMG. This is one of them so, without further ado:

OMG

Well that was preposterously rad!

A big mtn comp? Uh, the XGames is held in... Aspen.

Read up on the exploits of guys like Sylvain Soudan, Stephane Dan, Patrick Vallencant and Anselme Baud who were busy pioneering "extreme" skiing in Chamonix in the '70s. Bill Briggs would be...

how are we to trust your review? you're on the Salomon payroll!

this is effectively therefore big corporation covert advertising on (theoretically) independent forum.

BAN!!

*sound like sick...

Forget Megeve. Unless you like fur coats and ageing french aristocrats. Certainly worth looking at Espace Killy (Val d'Isere/Tignes) if you're on the way from Cham to La Grave. Particularly appealing...

does it, as the german-only publication might lead one to believe, just cover the eastern and northern aspect of the alps? sort of irrelevant for me anyway until they publish in english and/or...

Yeah I'm not surprised by this- as soon as I'd heard about the 115 being made it seemed always likely to kill it. I have p100s which I absolutely love. The one single thing I dislike about them (and...

How does the agent-less Dana Flahr find himself talking to that clueless bellend on TV?

Painful to watch. That presenter is a fucking bellend. The younger guy seemed to get it though. Thought Dana handled himself decently but riddle me this: if he doesn't have an agent, how the fook...

There's some great surf in the med but information is pretty closely guarded regarding the secret spots etc. Buy the stormrider europe guide, it has good info on the med as well as the west coast. SW...

^thank you for the imbed pooper sir, good skillz on the webs...

Either I'm shit at the interwebs or this actually hasn't been posted.
http://newschoolers.com/ns/content/readnews/id/3441/

Either way, it's epic.

Tignes/Val d'Isere no contest. Both resorts have great nightlife, Val d'Isere maybe better but pricier. Accomodation expensive in both but if lift accessed terrain and lots of it is your thing then...

no irony, i genuinely thought spanish was the spoken language throughout scandinavia:rolleyes:

thanks for the helpful responses super g and wcf3. it's gonna be some time before i'm in a position to put together an AK trip barring winning the lottery but nonetheless it's nice to know where i'm...

STUPENDOUS!!

couple of questions- i, like many on here no doubt, watch that and it merely turns the irritating voice in the head that is bleating "one day i must go there and do this". 2 things...