Xavier de Le Rue

ROAMER : EP.8 - THE CLASSICS

Podcast | 8 months ago

My final episode is about revisiting the classics of my youth in the French Pyrenees, around Saint-Lary Soulan. Riding the lines I grew up on brought back powerful memories, especially around the Arbizon, the mountain that dominates my village - and as a re...

17 décembre 2025

Short | 8 months ago

ROAMER : EP.7 - RISHIRI ESCAPE

Video | 8 months ago

Rishiri Escape: the conditions in the Pyrenees turned... difficult, we seized a small weather window to travel to Rishiri Island in Japan an island I have dreamed of visiting this isolated 1,800-meter volcano rising out of the ocean for over a decade, so se...

Swallow day in verbier before the opening

Short | 9 months ago

ROAMER : EP.6 OBSESSION

Video | 9 months ago

There was a line I had been staring at for nearly 15 years, on the south East face of the legendary Arbizon above my village in the Pyrenees. Few guys had climbed it, but no one with skis, so really, never knowing if it could be ridden. That face looks like...

LITTLE NOVEMBER SESSION nov 25

Short | 9 months ago

A little wander around the Italian side of the mont blanc tunnel. Surprising conditions which led me into that couloir that I have been looking for a long time.

ROAMER : EP.5 - BACK TO THE PYRENEES

Podcast | 9 months ago

Back to the Pyrenees: This episode is about returning to the Pyrenees, the mountains where I grew up. At the start of the season, we spent a lot of time roaming around, scoping faces, figuring out the right approaches, and exploring the full dimension of th...

ROAMER: Ep 4 - GLAD

Video | 1 years ago

Riding a few more lines up in the North, it is slowly time to start heading south as the season shifts in the most rapid way on these latitudes. The Roamer wagon starts its journey south and Mila, my daughter, sneaks out of school to come join the adventure...

ROAMER. EP.3 - SENJA

Podcast | 1 years ago

Back in action with the next episode Roamer. After a month away with the most stupid rib injury, the campervan is waiting in Tromso, it still has batteries and not too many mushrooms have grown in it! Adventure is on. This time, the Roaming has taken Nathan...

ROAMER : Ep 2 - LYKKELIG

Short | 1 years ago

Lofoten - the magical Viking picturesque territory of the Lofoten in full winter glory. It’s been my dream to get there early in the season when teh conditions are still pretty wild in these wind battered territories. 4 days of traveling to get to the penin...

ROAMER : Ep 1 - HELDIG

Stream | 1 years ago

First trip of the project and a bit of a test really... I (Xavier De Le Rue) was feeling the need to escape, get on the road, get back to the roots and essence of snowboarding as I see it - adventure and freedom, travelling light away from the crowds. Armed...

PELVIC FRACTURE SPLINT | HOW TO XV

Podcast | 3 years ago

Unfortunately in skiing and snowboarding a pelvic fracture is quite possible; crashing over rocks or hitting a tree stump and this injury can be life-threatening. The good news is, it is also very easy to manage until the rescue arrives, so definitely one t...