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  5th PLACE @ BIG MOUNTAN PRO - STILL LEADING THE TOUR!, 3-. -0. 2008, 11: 1

the big mountain pro (stop number 3 out of 5 of the freeride world tour) is the ultimate freeride event, with only 26 invited riders (14 ski and 12 snowboard) in 2 huge five star buses, ready during 8 days to go to the best locations within the alps to ride the best lines.




















you do not have your name written on a bus every day (-:


























we started in chamonix, going up to the aguille de midi doing some media work and enyoing a ride down the vallee blanche.
















 

the next day was already competition day, and the helicopter brought us up. then we had to hike one hour and a half to reach the top of tis beautiful face:

 

here is the view from the top of my run
















 

 at the end of the run, the cameras were already waiting for interviews. i did one of the fastest runs of the day, but it was not as clean as i would have liked it and finished third that day.


the way down from the mountain proved to be a little difficult.














 












the day ended with a little party






















since bad weather was on the way, we had to get up at 5 the next morning for contest day number 2. this is the face. unfortunately, the snow conditions were prettey shitty except for some pockets.


















 

i choose a line with very bad snow conditions and did a pretty bad run. i was super angry but that`s life....
after that we drove to italy for more runs, but they had to be canceled because of bad weather and snow. so had no chance to strike back and finished 5th.

overall winner was jeremy jones with xavier delerue on second and mitch continuing his upward moevement in the rankings with a third place.



 

nevertheless i scored enough points to stay in the lead overall before the next and last two events in tignes and verbier, coming up on the next 2 weekends. so i am still satisfied even though i know i could have done much better.

its time for some riding now after all the traveling at the big mountain pro.
and we are all hoping for snow to come.............

more news soon!
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