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After two month of constantly face shots in an extraordinary winter the Further Crew is visiting Bibi and myself in Austria to go for some missions. The plan for the austrian project was developped when we hooked up with Jeremy at the O´Neill Evolution to enjoy the insane powder at Davos with the local shredder Päsce in early January. The timing for the crew to come over and play could not have been much better, an extraordinary winter with lots of snow and freezing cold temperatures always in the minus 20 celsius range made the missions so far hard but also guaranteed for really good snow. Although the temperatures were on the edge to deal with, we took advantage of a quiet save snowpack and went on a camp mission  in one of the most remote mountain areas in central europe. Temperatures in the tents never went up higher than minus 10, but to be out there splittboarding and riding some pow in this beautiful area was totally worth the numb toes everybody had to deal with.
Next days a new storm is bringing more fresh and we are charging our batteries for more during the next week.

here a few impressions of the last weeks…

using sleds to pull our gear to camp

mornings were tough, the only chance to get a little warm was to hike up and get in the sun   Everything was always frozen, iced cheese, iced chocalate, iced bread. The only hot was the melted snow

1,5 hours above camp getting closer to the sun

the warmest it got in the tent was minus 10

early morning mission

after sunrise already in the face

bibi on top of her line

climbing in the shade to access the good stuff

jeremy riding some good snow

more on further in austria also on http://www.tetongravity.com/

You know when it didnt snow for a long time and you see the rocks and the grass on the dry mountains it gets hard to belive or even hard to imagine that there could ever be enough snow again to ride. And than it starts to snow and with the first snowflakes and the first centimeters on the ground the imagination and the feeling are coming back, and what did seem so far away is all of a sudden here. One good storm can change everything! And the happy kids are playing again…

snow is gone, time to enjoy the summer mountains. i really like to pedal my  heavy bike up the mountain as long as there is some nice run down waiting for me. riding my fully downhill I almost get in the same flow feeling as if i was riding my snowbaord…all pictures taken by ulrich hoschek

sometimes you got to carry your bike to get to the sweet spots...