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@samde__vries

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🇧🇪living his best life in the Swiss Alps🇨🇭
🎿Unqualified but ambitious freeskier
🎥Dad jokes, injury rehab, skiing & outdoors content
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3 COUNTRIES🇨🇭🇫🇷🇩🇪
1 RIDE 🚲
0 BORING SUNDAYS 😃

Join us this Sunday for the Dreiländereck Community Ride — good roads, good views, coffee & good people

STRAVA-Link:
https://strava.app.link/FzC2SJJEx5b

📍 Wo?
Beim Bahnhof SBB, Basel

🗓️ Wann?
Sonntag, 16. August 2026

👥 Gastgeber
MyBikePlan x Stefano & Selina
MBP Ambassadors

🕗 Programm
09:30 Meet-up und Einführung
09:45 Start der Runde
Kaffee- und Fotostopps vorgesehen ☕️📸

🎒 Mitbringen
- Rennrad oder Gravelbike
- Verpflegung
- Positive Vibes 🤙🏻

Wir freuen uns auf eine tolle gemeinsame Ausfahrt!

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Life update: finished my master's degree in Microbiology/ski mountaineering in Zurich, and started a PhD in Davos, Switzerland, in the allergy institute SIAF! I've been having a great time since I started, the institute is great (fuck paperwork but aside from that), the people are cool, and the location might be impossible to beat, for a biology research institute. Mega stoked to live in the mountains again (besonders mit Rhätischebahn uhh), and I'll get to ski or mountain bike to work at least 10 months a year here. Insane. To celebrate, here are a few highlights from the last year, in no particular order - impossible to fit everything and many many adventures, particularly from last summer, have been dropped, mostly due to my difficulties figuring out how to only allow the billionaires to see some of my data, instead of all. I was incredibly fortunate to have spare time and money for travel in the last year, and had great trips to Maine, Michigan, WA, Georgia the country, Norway the country, Croatia the country, Budapest and Bratislava the cities, Idaho the phenomenon, and many nooks and crannies in Switzerland. I also got 84 ski days in so far this season, starting in October. I still need a ski plan for July but my fingers are crossed harder than my buttcheeks are clenched. 84 days of gnarly skiing in 5 countries also yielded a few reminders, and while I have not yet been proved to be mortal, the last two slides here may not be pleasant for all. You've been warned. It's been a fun, scary, scarily fun year. I'll be in Davos for a while - come visit!

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If you can’t take the joke, get yourself a helmet to cry into.
Don’t take it too seriously 😉✌️

Quote/idea by @samde__vries 👈 follow him for ski content ❄️

SlowMo by @gioelegobbi 🙌

#racing4fun #zx6r #kawasaki #hobbyracing #keeppushing

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12 artists. 7 countries. Engelberg in sight.
Today, Portrait Suisse begins: our artists arrive, and the Pfisterhüsli opens its windows for the first preparations of the Open Studio. Let the week unfold.

#PleinAirPainting #PleinAirArtist #PaintingFromLife #ContemporaryPainting #artsymposium

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On the 44th day (April 25th) of the season I went to Engelberg-Titlis to celebrate @samde__vries's birthday.
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#Skiing #SwissAlps #Engelberg #Titlis #SpringSkiing

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Already getting nostalgic ✨❄️
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#ski #winter #freeride #powder #engelberg

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Ski season comes to an end. Short but fun.
#ski #frenchalps #alps #horspiste #pow

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Funny how the mind works. Out here everything feels simple, just you and the next turn. Back in normal life, even small things can feel heavy.

This moment feels real. Quiet, focused, and fully in it. The way this line is handled says a lot, really enjoyed watching this from @samde__vries.

#skiing #freeride #extremesports #mountains

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🙈 | Stay positive

Repost @samde__vries ACL + meniscus injury March 2024, Bone bruise September 2024, Ski laceration March 2025, Ankle injury September 2025.

The last two years have felt like learning how to walk all over again. Just when I started to feel strong, something else broke.

I’ve cried in parking lots.
I’ve questioned my body.
I’ve wondered if it was trying to tell me to stop.

But every time I clicked back into my skis, I remembered why I refuse to quit. It was never just about the sport. It’s about who I am when I’m out there.

Injuries took time. They took comfort. They took certainty.
But they never took the love.

And as long as that’s still there, I’ll keep coming back. And you will too, you got this!

Follow for more ski & injury memes 🙏

skiing #acl #injuryrecovery #aclrehab #teamACL

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One of my favorite things in skiing, especially when I'm alone, is to do a new line from visual inspection only. During my first competition at the @poederbaas NK Freeride, I was lucky that the line which looked like the most interesting skiing all while having good landmarks turned out to be the winning run. The nerves and the added adrenaline from the competition made the quick line some of the most exciting skiing I've ever done, and I had to lay down to take it in when I got to the bottom.

Congratulations to @thijnvanheijnsbergen for absolutely stomping the biggest cliff of the day, so cool to be on the podium with you. After @arnie_lammers makes a full recovery let's try to all make it on there next year.

Heel erg bedankt iedereen💜

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Spinal fusion of thoracic vertebrae 3 through 9 after an accident in May 2024.

I came across a reel (just in the right moment) from @samde__vries that made me laugh because it mirrored my own experiences over the past two years. Oh! the struggles, the frustratioooon - I’ve been there. So, I decided to add some humor to my story, just like he did.

So I would like to share some of his words… “Injuries took time. They took comfort. They took certainty. But they never took the love. And as long as that’s still there, I’ll keep coming back. And you will too, you got this!”

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Sapins enneigés, 410 km de pistes, des vues à couper le souffle…
Bienvenue à Thyon 4 Vallées. ❄️
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Snow-covered pine trees, 410 km of slopes and breathtaking views…
Welcome to Thyon 4 Vallées. ❄️

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