Pica, shredding the Brevent side of the Chamonix Valley. Photo: Arthur Ghilini We'll begin this by rehearsing the fact that Julien Herry of Chamonix might just be the best "Steeps Specialist" snowboarder in a generation of riders. He has put down first descents throughout the European Alps, and has honed his skillset as a snowboard alpinist to levels that most of us generally only fantasize about. To ride the terrain that "Pica" does, is to step into another universe in which there is an extra dimension of vertically oriented spacetime. This past spring he took his unbelievably refined skillset to the mighty