Snowkiting is the real ultimate skiing/snowboarding sport. On the 2011-11-11 no ski resort was open yet. All the skiers were dreaming about freeriding. Only dreaming. Of course, some touring skiers could get along the same route than us. We met some of them on this special day. But they are hiking hard for three or four hours and skiing downhill very tired and not long time at all. We are freeriding and skiing all the time with our kites. On the way up. On the way downhill. Always. On the 11-11 the wind was light. We had the time to look at the landscape around, following our kite and skiing up slowly like we could do with a skilift. Our kite is our new skilift. Our new season pass. A worldwide season pass!!! These three photos are self-made. I came first on the slope for the picture 1, then I set the tripod
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and the photo camera, and I went down, climbed in front of the camera, crossing this image from the bottom left to the top right and then I came back to turn off the camera and got further ahead to the summit. It’s been hard to do as we always want to go as fast as possible to the summit area, just in case the wind stops suddenly. It would be a pitty to stay stuck after wasting time for photos. But when it works, this is not wasting time though. The picture 3 is near the top, we can see the departure point in the valley on the left, this is a few kilometers to cruise with our kite from this place near the Pass. We didn’t get so cool snow for kiting any more as we had to stay near the pass for the next three weeks. The wind never blew from the right direction to get up there one more time.