The French alpine snowboarding team led by 2014 PSL World Cup title winner Sylvain Dufour will head to North America on November 3rd to enter its final preparation phase for the new season.

With some on-snow training camps in Saas-Fee to their belt already, the squad is now aiming for some more exercises on higher altitude as well as getting some fine tuning by attending the Nor-Am Cup races in Copper Mountain, CO.

From November 10 thru 14, a total of two parallel giant slaloms and parallel slaloms will be staged.

After their return and with the season's opener in Carezza, Italy around the corner (Dec 14) the team will check its form at the final rehearsal in Hochfügen, Austria when the season's first alpine snowboarding races of the new Europa Cup season will take place on Dec 6 and 7.