This third chapter is a real blast! The Swiss recipe is quite simple but dramatically effective: pick seven fresh and motivated riders: Elias Elhardt, Rémi Lamazouère, Martin “zizi” Seiler, Victor Delerue, Darius Heristchian, Emilien Badoux and Mati Radaelli; sprinkle them with sick pow lines, huge backcountry sessions, and pour the final touch to spice it up: a perfect heli trip that will remain in some minds for a while…

“I remember how stoked we were as our heli took off and headed directly to some untracked mountains. We were like small kids in a toy store before Christmas. We had such a blast that day, and I can still see Olivier (our filmer) puking out of the helicopter. Fun day with friends, powder and sun back home, that’s how snowboarding should be. Good times…”, remembers Martin Seiler.

And Elias Elhardt adds: “The Heli Trip was a crazy experience. Doing this for the first time in my life was a dream come true. I will never forget the moment when we took off and flew very close to those big mountains to scope out lines. The snow was perfect and the options endless. It was good to share this great experience with my team buddies Darius and Seili. Being on my snowboard, going down my line, I forgot about everything and only felt the pure joy of riding. In the end, every one of us had two super long and fun lines. Seili was ripping his spot!I guess dedication and passion for something enables us to do things that would normally never be possible…!”

It basically all started two or three years back when I heard they were going to stop producing Polaroid films… At that time I was not really familiar with the process and decided to jump straight in this “world” before everything was gone for real. I started doing some research about how to use fi lms, play with the chemical process, use different cameras and polaroid film formats and so on, and without expecting much i found a crazy community with a serious motivation and goal to keep Polaroid fi lm alive. After shooting a lot with the 600 film family (the classic ones with the white frame all around) I have moved quickly to 100 fi lms (rectangular and a bit bigger) and discovered many, many ways and techniques to play around with images. Here are a small collection of those from the past two winters…

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Rémi Lamazouère
trICK: Frontside 360
LOCatION: Bonneval-Sur-Arc, France

Photo: Matt Georges

 LOCatION: Cervinia, Italy

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Elias Elhardt
trICK: Cab 720
LOCatION: Bonneval-Sur-Arc, France

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Anne-Flore Marxer
LOCatION: Méribel, France

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Rémi Lamazouère
trICK: Method
LOCatION: Valcenis-Vanoise, France

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Romain De Marchi and Gigi Rüf
LOCatION: Cervinia, Italy

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Gigi Rüf
LOCatION: Cervinia, Italy

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Tadashi Fuse
LOCatION: Hokkaido, Japan

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: René Schnöller
trICK: Handplant
LOCatION: Montgenèvre, France

Photo: Matt Georges

LOCatION: La Thuile, Italy

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Romain De Marchi
trICK: Backside 720
LOCatION: Hokkaido, Japan

Photo: Matt Georges

rIder: Brynild Vulin
LOCatION: Valcenis-Vanoise, France

Photo: Matt Georges

LOCatION: Belledone Chains, Grenoble, France

Call us biased or lazy, but when we found this shot from Matt Georges we didn’t care that we’ve featured Remi Lamazouere in our desktop wallpapers before. This shot’s been taken in Avoriaz and matches the current late December vibe quite well. Droppin’!

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There’s also a bit of wallbanging and road gapping from France at the end too. Pretty sweet cut. Check out how they got on…

Our free dektop wallpaper of the week shows French Rip Curl rider Remi Lamazouere surrounded by white fluff. It was shot by our senior Matt Georges.

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