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Monday, November 29, 2010

Xavier de Le Rue : il ride sur un volcan

Xavier describes trip to Volcan Puyehue crater with North Face team last Sept 2010....

Snowboarding the goods of Chile!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

ALL I CAN- Impressive!

On Nov 8th the Rocky Mountain Sherpas, outstanding filmakers released their teaser in Arcteryx website for their new movie ALL I CAN

There New fillm ALL I CAN, is a movie about opening our eyes about our enviroment and how affect us mountaineers, skiers , people.......

Some of the footage was taken skiing in September 2009 in Volcan Puyehue, Chile when we were working on an episode for Salomon Freeski TV , proud of spending times with this "Brains"...

Have it a look, because what they do is not a single ski movie, it is a masterpiece with an educational orientation.

Proud of my friends, really cause some Goose bumps!

All.I.Can. Official
Teaser from
Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.

What are the effects of the choices we make,
Why is our mother sick with disease,

Where are the places that we feel most alive,
Who are the people who are making change,

When are we going to learn,
How are we going to make it better?

The Sherpas (sherpascinema.com) proudly present All.I.Can: a two-year feature film project that fuses
our passions for riding and exploring the mountains with our potential to help the
environment. The film strives to unite global mountain culture and bind us together as the
leaders of a green revolution. We must be inspired to do all we can for the environment,
and we must learn how to take that first tiny step in the right direction.

Multi-award winning Directors Dave Mossop and Eric Crosland journey to Chile,
Morocco, Alaska, BC and beyond with riders Kye Petersen, Mark Abma, Eric
Hjorleifson, JP Auclair, James Heim, Chris Rubens, Mike Douglas, Dana Flahr, Rory
Bushfield, Ian McIntosh, Lynsey Dyer, Alexi Godbout, Matty Richard, Chad Sayers and
more. Full feature drops in fall 2011.
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(We realize that it will be tempting to call us hypocrites and we welcome the dialogue
that we’ll inevitably create. This film, of course, has an environmental impact. Your
concerns will be addressed in full.)

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Snowboarding Crater of Volcan Puyehue with The North Face team

Decided to start with some beauty before writting. The whole trip is described below ....

Home at the rim of the Crater. Weather braking up after 5 days of storm...

On September 10th, 2010, early in the morning I left Bariloche towards Chile with co-pilot, Ingrid Backstrom... (good co-pilot by the way) ...Music and mate made this 4 hs till the airport of Osorno very nice. There, I left Ingrid and picked up Ben Gavelda, writer of "Transworld Snowboard Magazine", next day arrived rest of The North Face crew, they were photographer Scott Serfas and Joe, athletes Luca Di Bari, DCP (Dave C. Porcheron) and Shin Campos.
On the 12th, arrived good soul and pro-snowboarder, Xavier de la Rue.
Huge expedition to supermarket and next step drive to the farm to pack all our stuff....
On the 13th we packed the horses with Don Flavio and company, alwys helpful and friendly.
Weather was not excellent but good enough to travel in the mountains without getting wet, little bit of clouds and moisture.... but very nice... Temperatures were close to 0 degrees celsius.
We rode for 2-3 hs and horses did not make it all the way to the cabin, so we had to do some load trips to the cabin from the highest point were the horses left us.... This hard, part was sponsored by
Mrs Edy, who made the best empanadas in the entire area!!
We waited few days for the weather to improve, but never cleared too much, and forecast said that only will come half a day of clear skies. To Ski into the Crater you need perfect visibility, and the problem is that the first place where the clouds stuck is in the high summits, so... we decided to navigate in the white out and bring tents to the rim of the Volcano where we settled our camp for one night waiting for our window..
Next, morning at 7.30 am with beautiful lights and sunshine Xavier dropped into the Crater doing his first line,
then followed Luca and then DCP.
The guys did in between 4-5 lines each so was pretty nice and we took advantage of 10 hs of good weather,
at 6 pm we were on our way down.... Next morning was pooring rain!!
Thanks God the crater " was open again".... Sorry about my poor english and short story but
I think you will be able to read it anyway! Enjoy pics below!!
Thanks to my good friend Nico, who is always there giving the best of his self !!

donkeys on duty...

Nico in Ninja mode during the down days

DCP, scouting some lines into the Crater

Xavier de La Rue, excited for powder one more time!

DCP in action, I did not take many pics of dropping down! Next time more!!!

Text and pics:

Jorge Kozulj

UIAGM MT GUIDE

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DCP , Yesnoboard.com report click here

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Hi everybody July-Aug 2010

Hello everybody,

not much time to updated blog lately due guiding season, I think to get updates, please,
check the lower right corner and-or get into
our facebook page where we post updates more often (short and easier)

In general , the main things that happen so far were-
- Skied with Greg Hill, who have to do 2.000.000 vertical feet in a year, we explored Cerro Padre Laguna, that was skied before by Shannie and Jamie Schectman and then us (never heard of other descents), will post some pics below...

- Helped Mark Abma and the SASS crew to go and buy materials to build a mini-Biodiesel factory, so we will do it at home and Andescross soon! Excited by this project, seems easy and healthy