After a hectic pre-season I was ready and excited to leave to Austria with my friend Vanessa Andrieux. We go there every year to find good snow conditions. I was all packed, board and bags in my trunk and as I was driving back from Barcelona it started dumping everywhere, and by the time I was in Switzerland my home mountains were covered by a good 60cm of fresh snow !

This is when we both decided to join the Demonium base camp in Les Diablerets (definitely the best place to stay, hang, mini shred and skate up there) and shoot a couple things home before heading to the Austrian mountains. We wasted the first day looking for features to shoot along the road and at 12pm, after 3 hours driving around for nothing, we decided to go up on the mountain and shred. Luckily the place wasn’t totally tracked yet, I found a couple of good friends at the first chair lift, they took me to a good spot and I got chest-deep for my first run of the winter!! I can’t remember a better start of the season ever! Sick!

The next day we built a kicker with Eman, Damien, Nico and Tonton not too far from the road in a safe area as avalanche danger was quite high at that time. It was fun to be shaping a kicker already. The snow was deep in the landing, the sun was shining we had a good thermos with hot tea and good meet, cheese, bread and chocolate. Family style!

After that, we joined Nicolas Droz in Chatel to get a couple of shots, each day we were pushing the Austrian destination a bit later and we finally never made it there.

That’s when my friend Annie Boulanger called, there was no snow in Whistler and she jumped in the plane to come shred with me. I was so stoked to have her here because I’m always the one going to Canada or the US and for once I got to show my place to a good friend! As soon as she got off the plane, we called Jonas Emery who could eventually give us heads up on the conditions where he was staying… and we ended up staying at his place for a good four days. We got sick tree runs in still really good snow on our first day and it dumped overnight!! We went to Verbier the next day, same thing, good tree pow runs under the cabin, and the great thing is that no one was on the slopes before Christmas! We joined Emilien Badoux the next day for the same luck with sunshine this time!

After that we headed to my home resort with my both of my parents my cousin, my boyfriend and two other good friends with whom we shredded all weekend. It really felt like Christmas!

This last couple of weeks were such a blast, I got to practice some Quebecquien expressions, I got to shred for the fun of it which happens very rarely, I got to stay at my grandparents cabin and the conditions were fantastic!

That was definitely my best Christmas present this year. And I wish you just as much fun and good shred! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Anne-Flore