The Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix, France is one of the most famous lifts in the world. It holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, as it brings you up to 3842m (12,605ft). After passing through the famous ice tunnel, and making it down the arête, you can ski a variety of big mountain descents through heavily crevassed and unmarked terrain. Unless you are 100 percent confident in your glacier and ski mountaineering skills, it is wise to hire a local guide. When you ski down to Chamonix, it is a 2807m (9,200ft) descent. The access gives you the ability to explore high mountain terrain with incredible ease that is hard to replicate anywhere else in the world. However, the access needs to be respected because in Chamonix you can go from drinking an espresso to almost killing yourself in less than 5 minutes. Be sure you are prepared. Here is a look at what I carry with me down a ski run off the Aiguille du Midi.

February has been a month full of backcountry and jumps.  Mitchell Brower and myself have been working to put out the next webisode of #browers.  The last video we made was pretty much all urban (see here).  For the next edit we have been skiing in the backcountry most days working to get both stills and video.  This has proven to be a much more involved and difficult process, when we are each  trying to be the athlete and filmer.  The days do not seem long enough to get done what we want and the jumps always seem to take longer than they should to build.  That being said there is nothing better than a day in the backcountry with good friends.  This is the genre of skiing that I most enjoy. Here are a few screen shots of the things we have been up to:

Cork 7 on a fun and very lippy jump.

We are trying to get up and over this tree, we will see how it goes!

Loving the new RAS packs!

Mitchell getting some deep snow at Alta.