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I just got back from one of the best trip of my life in Alaska. It's such a beautiful part of the world but also in great danger! 

Like Greenland where the trip I did when I was 10 y.o changed my life and my passion for snowboarding and mountains. All the regions of the Arctic are the scene of a up coming disaster if things don't change. 

Oil companies, huge fishing industries, transport... are doing doing all they can to spoil the Arctic. 

It's a fact the Arctic ice floe is melting and this would open new routes for oil drilling, massive industrial fishing and commercial transport but for what price!

It's so far away from us that we seem not to care much but smallest changes there can dramatically affect the face of the entire planet.

So please take 30 seconds to join Greenpeace International and help to declare the Arctic off limits to oil drilling, industrial fishing...

Mathieu Crepel.

A usual skiing day for Candide in his home resort, could have ended in a better way this time! Out skiing with his friend Aziz Benkrich (red pants), we should probably tell you 'DON'T try this at home' !!

Alaska is always the ultimate pilgrimage and the last chance to get shots for your part. But more than just this it’s a true experience against yourself and nature that you have to respect even more than everywhere else to enjoy it at its most.

This year is even more so because we decided to explore a new zone where no one ever rode before. No comfy heli-skiing lodge, no hot showers, no toilets but the woods… just our little motor homes parked on the side of the road.

In these conditions you learn to live for the group not just for yourself. When you’re out in an untouched territory all that really matters is to get back at the camp safe at the end of the day. We took the first days quite easy to understand the snowpack try to find the good spots and make a game plan. And then the party started! Every morning you have that knot in your stomach, knowing you’ll have to face those huge mountains and glaciers, that fear that keeps you safe, but also makes everything so much more enjoyable and at the end of each run you just have that incredible feeling that can’t compare to anything else.

Then you have a few bad weather days where the pressure fades a little bit and you know you’re not gona risk you life for a while and can enjoy the wilderness of Alaska.

Chasing bald-eagles, fishing or at least trying, disk golfing, bbqs by the beach…

We’ve been here for 3 weeks and didn’t really think about when leaving! I guess summer and surfing will have to wait a bit more…

Words by Mathieu Crépel - www.mathieu-crepel.com

Sping's here, Powders gone and Candide's been hitting the slopes in Boreal park. Check out his free runs full of kickers, rails, pipes and even some after session gym work on the trampolines!