In late january and early february I got over to france for some turns.My trip started in Areches-Beufort,a small unknown ski area in the french alps.This is were the laurent favre oxbow back to powder invitational is being held.The area was sick with lots of minigolf terrain(for france)but long runs with alot of features.The comp is a 5 day thing with a long ridge of freeride terrain for the big mountain peice of the event,a nice table top kicker and wood jib(that was sketchy to say the least) for us to session,and a bundle of hand built jumps of the piste.Im not much of a competition shredder but this was more of a session so i was into it.It was a bit unorganized and snow conditions were not permitting gnarly ripping.In between parts of the event the rider got to go make some long runs with lots of natural feature in marginal snow.The table top ended up being a fun session for me to through all my tricks and the next day was the big mountain ridge that was canceled  because of firm snow and windy conditions so we went and hit the backcountry kickers.Every one was ripping and besides overshooting all the jumps I through alot of tricks and had a blast.Because of bad condition and since we were judging each other we decided to split all the prize money and just turn the event into a session and it ended well.Of course it started dumping a day after the comp and i decided to head to chamonix with Mike hopkins and julien regnier to do some shots for Weski magazine.We got lots of powder skiiing on real runs and I saw alot of good friends.Stoked.Skied in comayeur italy for the first time.There was more snow in italy than there has been for 5 years.After our crew left I decided to stay in cham for a bit longer and ski with Stain,Oli and all the bros.We had some really good days in Vallorcine and on the midi.My friend from canada Callum also showed up in cham surprisingly.So he had a great introduction to the chamonix valley with the best skiing either of us had experienced this season.It came to an end to fast and I had to go home to make it on a tgr trip in northern bc.Over all a big highlight of the year so far.

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