I met Frield Kolar at ISPO and he told me that they’ve got a lot of snow in Austria and they already have few kikers preshaped, so if i was up to shoot, will be definitely some good sessions over there. The weather was suppose to be bad for the next few days and i didn’t have my camera and riding stuff with me, so i went back home, wait few days, packed my stuff, grab Gerome Mathieu aka Coincoin with me and drove strait to Austria.

We arrived there on thuesday night, the weather was still suppose to be bad for almost all the week, one kiker like a wall on a rock and tree was ready. The weather was really bad, snowing and windy but we went to that spot whit Friedl, Steve Gruber and Coincoin which was next to the road after walking across a river. After reshaping and warming up the session started and the snow fall made the atmosphere way more attractive for my pictures.

After few phone calls Friedl decided that we should move to the south of Austria close to Slovenia for the next 3 days because there were way more snow and suppose to be sunny. Following his advise we drove there the next morning at 6am, the crew was composed with Friedl, Steve Gruber, Gerome Mathieu, Werni Stock and Morino and Enrick (2 filmer from Aesthetiker). We arrived in the resort called Nassfeld after 3hours of car, amazingly surprise by the tons of snow they’ve got compare to Zillertal. With a large smile in our face we went up ready to discover this new area.

The first day we shaped 2 kikers to be ready to ride the next morning but when we arrived the day after, friedl and steve found an other one so we shaped again and at the end of the day we started riding the other ones. Gerome found a really nice gap but he only had 2 tryout and 1 for Werni before the sun cames down.

The last day was the best one, the kiker from the day before was really good and so many tricks were lended by all of the riders, after killing the spot, Gerome wanted to ride again the one from the day before and also killed it with a huge FS 720.

Our session in the South was over, time to go back to Zillertal and for us to drive back to France.

I arrived at ISPO on sunday afternoon just right on time for the presentation of Anne-flore Marxer pro model parfum from les Ettes where we could clink our glasses of champagne to congratulate this event.

Right after that the Snowsurf aperitif was really animated and full of people, we all ended up kind of drunk and went strait away to the parties.

the next morning we found l’arrog in rest room of the Wombat hotel sleeping on some big pillows, with a nice hangover face that just him has the secret.

The 2 best stands of the trade show was the ghost house from Ride that remind us our childhood,

and the Forum’s one that throw us for few minutes in a funfair where we could play some games and win some tee-shirt.

If there is a new brand that i should talk to is definitely the one of Romain de Marchi, JP Solberg and DCP coordinate by Jim Zbinden, YES they did it, check them out on www.yesnowboard.com

Nicolas Thomas’s art exhibition by Spacejunk gallery was interesting to stop by to distract our mind in between all the snowboard brands.

After 2 big parties and 3 days at the trade show we were ready to get back home, we left in the afternoon with Aymeric Tonin for 7 hours of drive, before Zurich we stoped at a gaz station to have a lunch in a restaurent and when i get back to the car i had the great surprise to discover that one of the window was broken and my GPS, sunglasses and few stuff were stole, at least they didn’t open the back so my computer was still there. We had 3 more hours to drive with a missing window that we covered with a plastic bag and some stickers. No need to say how much we were wound up and tired.