Snow snow more snow
Mar 31, 2009 in WINTER NEWS
Winter keeps on keeping on, more bad weather, more snow, more fun on the hill…
Archive for March, 2009
Verbier Xtreme09
Mar 24, 2009 in WINTER NEWS
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I was happy to be part of the verbier xtreme on the famous and mythical bec de rosses for the 7th time. Although verbier had a good winter this season we had to deal with probably the most difficult conditions ever in the face. the problem were the strong winds that had hit the 3222m high north face really hard and made the snowpack a mix of windblown and pockets of sugar snow. i would call it xtreme conditions for the xtreme comp.
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For me this comp is the challange to find the suitable line for the existing conditions and ones aibility and to share this challange with all the other riders. The game is starting on day one with face inspection, continuing the the waiting period where you cant stop thinking about your options and your choice.
With the hike up to the peak you are hiking towards the highest intensity of tension before you drop in and you are all of a sudden just into riding and no more into thinking. |
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 location marked with the X on the overview pic by jancsi |
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 the scond X on the overview, pic by d.daher |
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Freeride project step2
Mar 16, 2009 in Austria, WINTER NEWS
Because we want to go deeper into the mountains to stay out there at the spots we want to ride we will have to set up our own camps and carry more stuff than usual. therefor we decided to cut our boards in half to make splitboards out of our shred sticks. so we hooked up with andy from the snowboardklink in innsbruck to have a working session over night.
