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• Video: Heliboarding Day In Eng Video: Heliboarding Day In Engelberg With Xavier De Le Rue and Johan Jonsson

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    “Right place! right time!” also makes sense in freeriding. To make the best out of the last dump of the season TimeLine crew decided to visit Johan Jonsson in Engelberg for a day of heliboarding. Tero Repo walks you through the different steps of a day on a heli shooting mission and Xavier and Johan get some good lines while managing the unstable upper layer.

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• Video: Profile Of Big Mountain Video: Profile Of Big Mountain Snowboard Photographer Tero Repo

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    Tero Repo is the dude behind the lens responsible for Xavier De Le Rue's coverage in magazines for the past three years. To get a good shot, you need a good eye and good idea — Tero’s got both but his skills don’t end there. He’s the perfect guy you want to have as a friend on a trip and the ultimate beer lover. Here is a small edit so you can get to know him and his photo style a bit more.

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• Video: Fantastic Lines In Japa Video: Fantastic Lines In Japan - Xavier De Le Rue's Timeline Episode 4

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    Discover Japan like you had never seen it. Combine action packed sequences with backstage access, Japanese powder with big lines, waiting games with bullet speed riding, building/sleeping in a snowcave with riding at sunrise, and you have the recipe of this The North Face Expedition with Lucas Debari as a guest rider and the regular TimeLine crew Xavier de le Rue, Tero Repo and Guido Perrini. If you like this webisode as much as the team enjoyed the trip, tell your friends.

     

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• Video: Checking Lines - Xavier Video: Checking Lines - Xavier De Le Rue's Timeline Episode 1

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    Discover that big double cliff seen in The Storming with an helmet cam angle. Xavier de le Rue, along with Tero Repo and Guido Perrini look back at some of last seasons best lines, as well as looking at new possibilities and angles for this season. In this first episode you get to discover the service gondola they used to shoot many of the couloirs which ended up in Standard Films movie. Go check timelinemissions.com for updates along the season.

     

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• Video: Deeper Athlete Xavier D Video: Deeper Athlete Xavier De Le Rue's Timeline Trailer

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    Twice a month TimeLine will get you behind the scenes access to exclusive footage of Xavier de le Rue’s season. You’ll discover what it takes to film a big mountain video part for Standard Films and Videograss, to compete on the Freeride World Tour and what is happening during trips to Canada, Japan, Norway or Alaska. It will show you the team efforts of passionate friends to seek the best lines and best snow and use the best mountains as playground, Guido Perrini as filmer, Tero Repo as photographer and Xavier and his friends as riders. Shot mainly on Canon 7d. Follow the blog on, timelinemissions.com.

    For more of Xavier de le Rue check out TGR's latest snowboard film "Jeremy Jones Deeper."

     

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• Deeper AK: Eye Candy Appetizer Deeper AK: Eye Candy Appetizer

  • From: sethlightcap
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    So I know all of you want to feast your eyes on shots of the "Real" Jeremy Jones boardsliding a 60 degree razor spine or Ryland Bell slashing down a 2000 ft fin over fatal exposure, but well...that ain't happenin' right now. Gonna have to wait till Deeper drops next fall! Until the dinner bell, I thought I'd serve an appetizer plate of equally savory, but not so spicy images that describe some of the juicy details of our epic AK adventure.

    **The Fairweather Range of Alaska is home to the sickest spine walls on earth. Man-eating fins like these don't form up just anywhere because it takes a rare combination of maritime snow in ridiculous quantities to make it happen. There is no doubt Jeremy would hang out in a tent for 19 storm days for just one day of riding such wicked snow features. Thankfully, we spent 9 days tent bound for 11 days of riding these virgin spines.**

    

    **Towards the end of our trip we were visited by several flocks of noisy snow geese.  The geese didn't seem to mind flying in white-out conditions but we did hear them turn around abruptly after flying into unseen mountain faces. They were the only wildlife we saw the entire time we were out there aside from a mysterious house fly outbreak that coincidently appeared just after Lucas Debari arrived at camp. We let Debari off the hook after finding flies in places he hadn't been but strange nonetheless.**

    

    **You'll never look through Jeremy's goggles but if your lucky he just might share a glimpse of what he's seen on his Sony HD helmet cam. Same goes for his journal that sits to the right. You'll never read it, but on occasion he'll open it and share his inner vision.**

    

    **Of the 13 splitboards we brought with us on the trip, 2 were broken. Neither of the deceased were Jones' Solutions. Lucas Debari sent this one to heaven slamming into an unexpected chunk of glacial ice on a high speed runout. RIP.**

    

    **Needless to say, after three weeks without a shower and hiking 14 hours a day, we all got pretty stinky. The freezing temps kept the stench at bay however as sweat never had the chance to waft out that far. This picture symbolically depicts the funkiest funk we encountered on the trip by most votes, Bell's boots and Burt's ass.**

    

    **You might think we were roughing it out there on the cold glacier, miles from nowhere. But really, no. We had a toliet with a bitchin' seat and we ate damn good food including this tasty scallop veggie curry served up by Burt and Tero Repo.**

    

    **Ryland got us all hooked on the candy sweet taste of Baren Jager, a honey liquor that was lip smackin' good and too easy to swallow. Mr. Bell took his passion for the nectar one step further however, naming the sickest line he did all trip after it.**

    

    **While we didn't have to battle gaping bergschrunds at the bottom of our lines, us media folk fought for fresh batteries and clean memory cards. Laugh away, but it was no easy fight. At any given time there were 8 cameras rolling not including the ipods and point-and-shoots that the athletes carried. Batteries got drained daily and cold laptops didn't last long trying to dump memory cards. Five solar panels similar to the one shown here kept us alive and shooting.**

    

    **If you ever get the chance to fly with Drake outta Haines you just might see this ornament of a jolly cat on a sleigh sitting alongside his pilot-side window. It perfectly describes Drake's flying style  - nimble, smooth and seemingly effortless. Touching down and taking off on crevasse strewn glaciers is no problem for the former professional race car driver nor are pitched banked turns 50 feet from jagged alpine faces.**

    

    **We saw sunrise and sunset on the move many days. A 2:30 am wake-up and an 8 pm arrival back at camp was not uncommon. Long days on the glacier were always rewarded however, usually just as soon as the sun cracked the horizon.**

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• Valdez Alaska Update: Xavier Valdez Alaska Update: Xavier De Le Rue Checks in

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    “Just got to AK 4 days ago. Two standard films crews are on site, on one side Kevin Jones and Mark Carter getting shot by Chris Ondercin and Curley for stills. On our side Sammy Luebke joined the euros composed by Guido Perrini on the filming duty, Tero Repo taking pics and myself. We've been so far pretty lucky with already two good days and more to come. Sammy is ripping and got straight away into our program... Most of all, snow is great, stable... we have some good lines in the head, not much more to say than that we are pretty stoked to be up here! The end of the week seems sunny so just have a look at the pictures... no need to say that it might be pretty sick....fingers crossed!”

    Xavier

    

    

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• DEEPER GOES STEEP IN EUROPE DEEPER GOES STEEP IN EUROPE

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    Text&photos: Tero Repo

    Last spring was an excellent time to hit steep faces in Europe. Pretty much all the steeps were in great condition around the Alps. Extreme routes in chamonix were getting bounded like never seen before. You snooze you lose! As soon as Jeremy heard about the great conditions of the steeps, he travelled to europe accompanied by filmer Chris Edmands. The goal was ride steeps and classics in Mont blanc area for two weeks and capture some breath taking footage for a film project, Deeper.

    Our first day was kind of slow: Chris and Jeremy were little bit jet lagged and Xavier just got back from France. Easy bouldering session seemed to be the best option for day one. As we were bouldering in La Fouly (sui) we couldn't stop staring the summit of Aiguille de l'amone, which is gnarly face in Switzerland. It was late afternoon when Xavier and Jeremy made the call to reach the summit of the de l'amone over the night and ride down as soon as sun will rise. Ten o'clock the boys and Chris started to hike up. Meanwhile the other camera man Guido Perrini and I were privileged to sleep 'till 2am. I took Xav and Jeremy 10 hours to reach the summit. What a mission! Finally around 8am they were ready to drop in this 45-50 degree face with 300 meter cliff drop on the riders' right side. A moment later we were watching two beautiful lines on Aiguille de l'amone. First day was better than excepted and everyone was smiling. Time to have a nap.

    

    **Chris Edmands preparing to interview Jeremy and Xavier after a bouldering session.**

    

    **Guido Perrini ready to film Aiguille de l'amone in the middle.**

    After the first successful day, it was hard to think of something even better to ride. Only thing that was decided was that the destination would be Mont Blanc area in France. Xaviers good friend and a mountain guide Fan Fan from Chamonix told us that Aiguille de Blanche Peuterey was in good condition. I googled the face I thought holy shit, Thats huge. Only one person before has ridden that face. It was about to get serious.

    

    **Aiguille de blanche Peuterey. The line is in the middle, ending to the narrow couloir.**

    Our next stop was courmayeur, where we met Fan Fan. After quick cup of coffee, we were crossing the glacier to reach small refuge called Fouche. It was boiling hot and the snow was getting heavy. Just before the last climb to the refuge Chris disappeared with a small avalanche that slid just beneath him. There was a couple meters deep bergschrund just under him and luckily he was ok. We continued to climb last 200 meters to reach the refuge. While roping down to the hut from the ridge, we saw serac falling down from Mont Blanc causing a big avalanche. It was definitely getting serious. 

    

    **Jeremy helping Chris up from the bergschrund.**

    

    **avalanche moving fast.**

    Next morning we woke up early to have proper look on the face. It looked really steep, but the snow seemed to be ok. Unfortunately there wasn't any good angle to shoot the line, so Chris, Matt an I decided to head back to Hellbrunner (top of Courmayeur) where the face looked really good for filming.

    

    **Jeremy and Xavier thinks that Aiguille de Blanche Peuterey (in the back ground) is steep.**

    Despite of perfect weather forecast the clouds were rolling at 3am when we woke up. Chris and I started to hike up to our position when we heard Jeremy on the radio. It was too sketchy weather to continue, so, they decided to turn back. No fighting against mother nature. A few hours later we were back in Courmayeur having delicious Italian food. One thing was sure: we weren't done with the Peuterey yet!

    

    **Jeremy, Chris and Matt having an appetizer in Courmayeur.**

    It took almost a week to return to Aiguille de Blanche Peuterey. Before that Jeremy and Xavier hit the Tour Ronde North Face. Unfortunately I couldn't be there capturing the photos as i had to leave the crew for five days. The focus was now on Peuterey, which was going to be the grande finale of Jeremy's trip to Europe. Everything was ready; three filmers, photographer and very hungry riders. It was going to happen.

    

    **The view from Hellbrunner night before grand finale.**

    The morning was a beautiful blue bird. As we started to get closer to our filming/shooting positions the wind increased quite a bit. We spotted Jeremy, Xavier and Fan Fan on the face climbing up. Everything looked good. A couple hours from the summit, the boys stopped. Soon after they radioed that the wind was too strong and therefore the face was still as hard as rock. It took them a while to make the decision to turn back. It wasn't an easy one to make, but most likely the best one. It wasn't over yet, they had to cross a messy glacier. 

    

    **Very messy glacier. Jeremy, Xavier and Fan Fan on top right.**

    Around lunch time we were back in Courmayeur. Aiguille de Blanche Peuterey was still to be conquered, but not to worry, because the mountain won't go anywhere. Riding and shooting steeps is a waiting game. We will wait, but not too long.

    

    **We will return to the Alps next year**

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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• t_repo jeremy jones deeper cre t_repo jeremy jones deeper crew chamonix

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• A shout out to the Deeper Crew A shout out to the Deeper Crew

  • From: JeremyJones
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    “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” Ernest Shackelton placed this add in a British Newspaper looking for men to explore the arctic with him in the 1800’s.

    The key to the success so far with “Deeper” has been the people behind it.  This made picking the right people to work with essential for the project to happen. Everyone stepped up and gave everything they had.  There was no drama.  That is not to say things were easy.    At times everyone of us wanted to call the movie “Suffer” instead of “Deeper.”  For me it came hiking home into an oncoming storm in Tahoe with 60 pounds on my back, darkness quickly approaching on the fourth 14 hour day in a row with no more food left.  For Ryland it was probably searching for a camp site at 10 pm 17 hours into his day.  For Jonaven I would imagine it was after his dogs had broken into his food supply, forcing him to go on half rations until the weather broke and we got a re-supply.  Without the hard times the highs would not have been so high.

     

    In my twenty plus years of snowboarding this one will be put on the trophy shelf right next to my first year in Jackson Hole, first time to Alaska or the first year my home mountain allowed snowboarding.  We are now digesting the season, logging footage, cutting webisode and getting ready to do it all over again next year.

    I wanted to give a huge thanks to the people who made this first year so special.

    The Filmers.  They are the unsung heroes of the film.  Finding filmers that were willing to live in tents and hike there huge packs for days to shoot one line was difficult to say the least.

    Chris Edmands.  I would not have done this project with out him.  He showed me with his movie “My Own Two Feet” that bringing cameras deep in the backcountry was possible.

    Garry Pendygrasse.   Garry was the first guy I ever filmed with 15 years ago.  He spent 27 days camped on a glacier and other then hating the tent zipper never complained.

    Pete O’Brien.  Pete woke up at 3AM and hiked 8 hours to shoot one line in Utah and I blew up at the bottom. Guido Perrini. Invaluable European Filmer.  He hiked through the night to film Xavier and I ride a line at sunrise.

    Matty Herriger.  He has the heaviest pack in the business and took it to places very few people have taken that size of a pack.

    The Riders.

    Jonaven Moore, Travis Rice, Ryland Bell, Xavier De le Rue, Johan Ollofsen, Forest Shearer

    The Guides

    Tom Burt, Scott Newsome, Fan Fan

    Photographers

    Dan Milner, Jeff Petterson, Tero Repo, Chris Bezamat, Eric Hostetter, Seth Lightcap, Will Wissman

    TGR

    My brothers Steve and Todd. Liz, Josh and Keith.

    The Sponsors

    Swatch, Recco, O’Neill, Brunton, Arc’teryx, Clif Bar, Spark R&D

    

    **Man Camp**

    

    **Ryland Bell trying to get a view of the crux in Tahoe**

    

    **Studying snow pits at the TGR Backcountry Workshop in December at Grand Targhee**

    

    **Racing the sun back to the parking lot at the end of a long day**

    

    **Edmands and Seth on the edge and loving it**

    

    **Travis Rice gets in a few turns before lining up the cross court roller at the bottom**

    

    **This was one of the coldest days of the year.  When it is this cold we would wake up and get going because it was too cold to sit around for breakfast.**

    

    **Tom Burt negotiates his way through the glacier in a white out while Travis Rice and I follow.**

    

    **Edmands on his way to another “perch of doom” in the moring twilight**

    

    **The walking guide book, Seth Lightcap, putting in the booter in the High Sierra.**

    

    **Alaska**

    

    **The couch is a little hard but the view is killer**

    

    **Aaron Ward showed us around Utah.  After I sent this line he decided to get some for himself.**

    

    **Utah**

    

    **Tahoe wake up call.**

    

    **Europe**

    

    **Scott Newsome on the final push toward Mt McConkey**

    

    **Edmands, Ondercine, Ryland and Seth wet, tired and happy.**

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• Big Chamonix Line Big Chamonix Line

  • From: JeremyJones
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    Photo: Tero Repo This photo was taken during the Chamonix trip while filming Teton Gravity Research's snowboard film Deeper. Photo: Tero Repo

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• Deeper. An Alps All Nighter Deeper. An Alps All Nighter

  • From: JeremyJones
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    Xavier has been showing me pictures of this one line for a few months and it was finally in form.  In order to hit it we would have to hike 6600 vertical feet before the sun heated up the face.  Our big hazard at this time of year is heating.  On clear nights the snow freezes solid and as the day warms up the snow heats up and by the afternoon avalanches start pouring down the mountains.  Because of this we do our hiking in the dark and are riding at first light. This was especially important because to hit this line we would have to hike over major exposure for over an hour to get to the peak.

    To be safe we started our hike just after dinner at 10pm.  With no moon and thick woods to start we were lost instantly.  I raging river was our savior and it allowed us to hop on the rocks, gain altitude and get above treeline.  Once on the snow hours melted together and hardly a word was spoken between us.   On the glacier we roped, turned our headlamps on high and weaved our way to the base of the line.  Twilight hit just as we reached the first bergchrund and from there the race was on.

    I had been pacing myself all night but once I got on the final pitch over the exposure I gave it everything I had so I could limit my time on the hanging snowfield.  The conditions were perfect, the snow was still cold but soft and just after 8 AM we dropped into our line.

    

    **You can see the peak to the upper left.**

    

    **Edmands dealing with the the first of many obstacles. You do not want to get your feet wet at the start of a 10 hour hike.**

    

    **Xavier approaching the bergschrund as the first signs of light show on the horizon.**

    

    **Epic sunrise on the way up.**

    

    **Xavier ten hours in and minutes to the top.**

    

    **Thinking of you Shane. I dropped in here and worked my way left. To the right is a perfect ski base. Our car is at the bottom of the valley.**

    

    **The Prize Photo. Tero Repo**

    

    **Off the ice and ready to party the 3k of rolling corn snow to the valley bellow. 10 hours to the top. 10 minutes to the bottom.**

    

    **12 hours of charging later. Xavier finally takes a rest. It is amazing going from the high and cold mountain tops were the high elevation makes breathing hard and riding to the valley floors were the air is thick, smell of flowers and feel like summer.**

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