Parallelo

Les Menuires, France | Active: early 2000s-present | Focus: freestyle, halfpipe, freeride, ski films, ski culture | Current: Parallelo co-director and video podcast host Gros Tougnes Before The Lines Became Serious The small mountain of Gros Tougnes above Les Menuires carried cold Belleville snow and teenage impatience. Pierre Guyot arrived with freestyle habits, Victor Galuchot with freeride eyes, and the two kept returning to the same features: a wind lip, a jump, a line that looked harmless until speed made it real. That terrain became more than a playground.... Read more on the Athlete page

Les Menuires, Savoie, France | Active: 2000s-present | Known for: Bon Appétit Ski, freeride films, steep skiing, environmental storytelling | Current: Elan-supported freerider, filmmaker and Freeski Belleville coach Péclet After Lockdown The glacier above Val Thorens was quiet in May, the lifts stopped, the valley emptied, and spring snow holding just long enough for skins, sleds, ropes, and a small crew to move upward. Victor Galuchot was not chasing Alaska or Japan. He was walking from home.... Read more on the Athlete page

French Alps resort in the Vallée des Belleville | Known for: central 3 Vallées access, 81 local slopes with Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, Pixel Area snowpark, La Masse terrain, 1992 Olympic slalom heritage, and high-altitude family-friendly ski-in ski-out logistics | Season: early December to mid-April in the 3 Vallées calendar | Best for: long piste mileage, intermediate progression, family trips, park basics, and Belleville Valley freeride access La Croisette At Eighteen Hundred Meters Les Menuires sits at roughly 1800 meters in the Vallée des Belleville, between Saint-Martin-de-Belleville below and Val Thorens above. That position is the resort’s main strength. It is not the highest 3 Vallées village, not the most luxurious, and not the purest freestyle destination, but it gives direct access to the largest connected ski domain in the world while keeping a more practical, family-oriented base.... Read more on the Location page

American snow optics and protection brand | Founded by Burton Snowboards in 2001 to serve progressive riders | Known for: M4, M5, M6, Sync and Nesa goggles, Magna Tech lens changes, MFI magnetic face mask integration, Perceive lenses, WaveCel helmets and MIPS models | Focus: clear vision, face coverage, helmet goggle fit and snowboard led protection for ski and snowboard conditions Burton DNA and the anonymous optics brand built for riders Anon is Burton Snowboards’ dedicated optics and snow protection brand, created to solve the visibility and fit problems that riders face in real mountain weather. Founded by Burton in 2001, Anon arrived from a snowboard world that was already deeply connected to freestyle progression, contest riding, filming and storm chasing. That origin matters because the brand did not begin as a generic eyewear label.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Slovenian ski manufacturer | Founded 1945 in Begunje by Rudi Finžgar and nine other visionaries | Known for: SCX carving skis, Amphibio left right profiles, Primetime piste skis, Ripstick freeride models, Playmaker freestyle freeride skis and Voyager folding skis | Focus: intuitive carving, lightweight freeride performance, European manufacturing and innovation from one Alpine factory 1945 in Begunje and the factory that kept changing ski shape Elan is one of the rare ski brands whose history is not only long, but structurally important to the way modern skiing looks. The company was founded in 1945 in Begunje, Slovenia, by Rudi Finžgar and nine other visionaries, with a mission to build ski equipment from the edge of the Slovenian Alps. Finžgar was a ski jumper, inventor and winter obsessive, and that origin still matters.... Read more on the Sponsor page

German snow optics and protection brand | Founded 1926 in Furth by Philipp M Winter with the uvex name derived from UltraViolet EXcluded | Known for: ski goggles, snow helmets, supravision anti fog lenses, variomatic photochromic lenses, colorvision contrast, invictus race helmets and MIPS models | Focus: clear vision, head protection, German manufacturing and race proven equipment for alpine skiing, freeride and everyday resort days 1926 in Furth and the meaning of UltraViolet EXcluded Uvex is one of the oldest and most technically rooted protection brands in skiing. The company traces its history to 1926, when Philipp M Winter founded an optical industrial workshop in Furth, Bavaria. The original business was built around protective eyewear, not fashion accessories, and that matters because the brand’s modern ski identity still comes from one central promise: protect the eyes and head in demanding environments.... Read more on the Sponsor page