17/12/2025
“Jean-Noel Gaidet is a local mountain goat. Known as ‘Jean-No’ among friends and colleagues, [the Frenchman] has spent a lifetime poking into every fold of his home valley, hiking, climbing, and skiing his way through the jagged expanse. Along the way, he has developed an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the terrain near his home. To ski with Gaidet is not simply to access a ski route, it is to connect a series of ascents and descents into an otherwise impossible adventure.”
Last April we joined the crew at in the stunning Savoie region of the French Alps for a week of skiing, apres, fine dining and alpine living. But what stuck out to us most was Jean-No and his wife Julie, local chalet masters, mountain guides, and the keys to a family legacy five generations deep.
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Thanks to .allegre for the photos of this epic adventure.