Powder in October - Snowkite Session 34

It's not often we can say that the snow season has started, when we're still in October! But a huge depression, accompanied by very low temperatures and a lot of precipitation, had as result a huge snowfall in some parts of the Alps, last weekend.
The winds were also very strong, so higher and more exposed spots didn't benefit from this, but some protected areas of the Vercors mountains got as much as 60 cm of fresh powder, something rare, not only for this time of the year, but also for some of the spots in question!
So, seeing a forecast of sun and some wind for monday, I had to go with some friends to get the dust of the Winter gear and officially kick off the snow season for 2012-2013...

We chose to go to Lans en Vercors, a small spot, but with a nice hill to go up and down and particularly well oriented to accumulate the heavy snow falling on the previous days. And the choice was a winner, with so much snow that I didn't even scratch my snowboard (which is very common on those first sessions of each Winter) and could even enjoy some refreshing powder slashes while speeding downhill!

While most of the guys around were kiting, one decided to fly over our heads, but at the end everybody was wearing the same big smile over their faces (as you can guess from my Instagram picture below). Welcome back Winter!