Treasure Iceland - Ubac Images

We are back in Switzerland, in Verbier / Le Chable, for our very first heliski session! Down at the heliport, we couldn't see much, a nice sea of clouds overcasted the whole valley. Quite disappointing. But after a few minutes, the sun came through, and it was ON. 2 runs on the menu: - first one on the Glacier du Trient, over the clouds it was amazing, "Welcome to Paradise" - for the second we were supposed to go to the Petit Combin, but the chopper was short on gas so we went back t...

Since the beginning of the season, we were green with envy watching all the pictures and videos from Japan, where snow conditions looked amazing. We then decided to go there as well, but our bank advisors said no. Our disappointment didn't last for long, as Japan itself decided to come and visit us on the first week of February 2015. With more than 1m50 of fresh snow on the resorts of the Portes du Soleil in Haute-Savoie, we finally turned our dream of skiing in Japan into reality. On t...

New snowfall means new episode for Ubac Images! For this 3rd episode, we travelled to Austria, more precisely the resort of Sankt Anton am Arlberg. This place is well-known for freeriding, and we were eager to verify it by ourselves. On the first day, the weather was splendid, the couloirs looked amazing, but that was just a huge trap: 30cm of fresh snow on nothing but abrasive rocks... But after looking around a bit, we found some nice lines! Even before finishing our beer, the snow...

Today is a great day of winter 2015!!! Not only it is dumping, but above all it is the release of the second episode of Ubac Images! Initially, the idea was for Pierre and Julien to climb the Roc d'Enfer and to ride down a nice couloir. Unfortunately, conditions were more suitable for snow-kite than freeriding, and snow accumulations looked very unstable. Change of plans, let's go to Verbier, where Seb greeted us with a good 20cm of fresh snow. Champagne powder, amazing lights, the per...