SkiSickness

I'm procrastinating. again. so bored!

random hills:







generator broke.



this was a business trip.



hey.



play nice.



this was not a business trip.




snow is overrated








nice spot for a secluded beach holiday imo


pro tip: take off heavy backpack for this sort of stuff



joy!



did manage to ski some evetually.





cookie.



great ice cream place on the main street



fitz & co from plane



aw.



and now it's winter.





Austria fuck yeah.

Awesome, thanks for procrastinating.

Mmmmm, bunny.

Fantastic. Thank you.

backyard party this morning.







The lighting is so dramatic, pose for a picture!



I think this is called "freeski mountainering"








I'll go bake some cookies now. god forbid I do work.

Diggin' your backyard.

Nice. Where's the good places to ski in the Austria?

well, you know how the France has this one resort called Chamonix and that's pretty much it for skiing in that country? The Austria has St. Anton.

(was this a serious question?)

nice little run that local retired people do at the end of the day with no gear except racecarvers:

There's skiing in Austria!?



Thanks for more nice pictures, KLAR. It's snowing here again and maybe for several days this time, so I'll try to post some skiing pictures myself if I can escape the lab one of these days.

Yes serious question. We'll be headed that direction in April and still trying to determine exactly where we want to go. I've been to Cham and would indeed like to go back but would be cool to check out some other spots. And my german is much better than my french.

In April you want the higher parts of Austria, which are most concentrated in the western parts of the country. Various options for hut to hut traverse-like deals in e.g. the Silvretta (bordering on CH) or the Ötztal and Stubai Alps (bordering on IT). I can give you some more specific pointers if you are interested and provide some info on what you want to do (winterrooms, open huts, no huts ?)
we did some short late season hut excursions last year where we didn't really accomplish much other than eat a lot, but there are some pictures of stuff if you're interested. easy to put together longer trips if one wanted to.

this was in june near Kaunertal
http://klartellsstories.blogspot.co.at/ ... scape.html
and may in stubai
http://klartellsstories.blogspot.co.at/ ... eyond.html

there are good topographic maps of everything on bergfex. pick a ski area and click on the show map button on the right, it starts with the section of the map near the resort but you can navigate around nicely.
eg for kaunertal resort
http://www.bergfex.com/kaunertal/

VIelen dank for the beta. Also really enjoy the blog.

Scary wild animals.


I was told by the local extremo kid not to say where this is. So don't ask.





visitors visiting



The Tribulaun is geologically related to the dolomites.


Freeride competition wooohooo! Tyrol fuck yeah.


You must have some of those powderskis.



Do they work well?



One of those things you see from down town so it had to be done sooner or later.





Scary wild animals v.2 Outing with freeriding firefighters


Lazy Outing


I think someone stole someone else's climbing tights.



nu skool = tru skool



How to be good:

I like the way you work it.

Here's to freeriding firefighters.

This was last may, there is less snow now.


Way less.


Last June there was still more snow than now.


This is called "the High Wild One"


Going for a hike with my girls.






Going to work.




Going to Argentina.











Going back to work.







Winter slowly came around


Different kind of work.


Not work.






Backyard is getting overcrowded.


Good thing we have several.






Hoping winter isn't as over as it currently appears to be around here...

These photos are stunning, klar. I must have been distracted when you posted them.

I can't believe I haven't seen this til now. Eclectic stoke depository.

Let's move to Patagonia and raise circus animals.