Summer in Austria

09. August 2010

check out possible lines

Just in the middle of summer time when others hang out at lakes and stuff, Alex Hoffmann and me decided to start already Winter season 2010/11. We found awesome conditions up there and few people... this day was totally sick!!

In the afternoon we washed of all the snow in our face :) in a nice lake next to Innsbruck... I like!!

Hintertux glacier 3250m

short Hike to drop in...

some crevasses to play with :)

...ahhhhhhh

"Spanferkel" and Weizen ...mhhhhhhh

TransAlp Bike Tour

Zillertal - Bruneck - Cortina - Lago di Caldonazzo
9778 vertical metres, 362 km, 6 days, 82,4 km/h max. speed...

Each day was special and the Dolomites are just beautyful, also in summer time... We rode insane trails down the mountains, all kind of styles from technical to easy and full speed downhill.

When we started our tour from Zillertal the weather was pretty bad, 20 cm fresh snow on the top and cold feet... No matter, full of motivation we were really stoked about the first trail bringing us down to St. Peter. The following days we had lot of fun biking up and down and recovered with good italian food and cold beer in the evening!

brrrr...

"South Tyrol is not Italy" ...aha

through the rocks

where to go?

Ursula, me, Joggl and Christina

PROSCHT !!

The cow

rest and repair :)

Christina ripping

Lago di Caldonazzo

Winter 2010

Looking back to a good winter with great trips to different places, sick runs, lot of fun together with my friends up in the mountains and some really good results in the Freeride World Tour:

FWT Ranking Overall 7th

FWQ Ranking Overall 1st

"Urbanes skifahren" VIDEO

Check it out, if you didn't see yet!! Droping a 100m highway bridge into climbing rope!!

FIRST HIKE at home mountains in october, powder conditions deluxe!!

MORE HIKES around Innsbruck together with Alex Hoffmann, DCR, Joggl Zangerl... BIG!!


FWT RUSSIA - postponed to Chamonix due to weather conditions. A real "Russian adventure" including two days with deep powder runs. Crazy Vodka party in a nice club in Sochi... byla altìtschna!


FWT CHAMONIX, FRA - 2nd place!! Great conditions at the contest face and a nice run took me on the podium. Good week and powder days at Brèvent ski resort.


FWQ ENGADINSNOW, St. Moritz - podium again 3rd place!! My mountain after winning here 2008? I like the Corvatsch north face!!


FWQ FIEBERBRUNN, AUT - 1st place!! Winning in Austria was a big goal and with a good line I could realize making it on top of the podium.


FWT SQUAW VALLEY, USA - Burger time! ...living the "american way of life" with my travel buddys Mitch Tölderer, Häusl Stefan and Lori Huber. Just awesome, even if we could not ride the mystical Tram face because of security reason and I didn't do very well on the Silverado face. Nice californian tree runs the days after.


FWQ NENDAZ, SUI - 1st palce OVERALL Freeride World Tour Qualification with 228 ranked riders from all over the world.

STEEPS CHAMONIX, FRA - riding the "Jäger couloir" from Mt. Blanc du Tacul and some others... Good french vine and food in Chamonix mmmhhhhhh


FILMING for Arlberg TV together with Häusl Stefan and Geli. Twice we hiked up a sick face and after interview in the "green box"

FWT VERBIER, SUI - Run1: solid and save, canceled due to weather conditions. Run2: really good and super fast run, droping the Hollywood cliff sidewise but a stupid mistake at the lower part, not clean, 8th place. Great week in Verbier with all the "old stars" from 15 years Verbier Xtreme. Lot of party...

BIG Thänx to all my Sponsors for supporting me living my dream of riding POWDER all over the world!!

AK 2010

Sorry for no posts the last view weeks! What happened...

Since a long time I wanted to ride some of the famous Alaskan Powder lines. Finally I made it to Valdez together with the Flow Crew and we spend 2 weeks up there. It was some good days riding, but unfortunatly I got injured - compression fracture of my 10/12. vertebral body. No need to say how I felt... Not good at all. Right now I feel better all day and I will continue doing everything to recover soon and as good as possible!! At least I had some runs in AK and could check out how everything works up there to be prepared for 2011. I`ll be back :) !!

The "books"

Of course winter is over for me, means no more steeps which I wanted to ride. Summer is coming fast, but I'm already looking foreward to ride again - the next snowboard trip, mid of september, is already planed! I'll tell you more about that soon...

Thompson pass

Base Camp - fresh salmon BBQ and Alaskan Beer

King of the Hill contest area - Congrats to Travis Rice 1st and Scotty Lago 3rd

Valdez harbour

Going to Alaska!!

The biggest dream of a Freerider coming true!! Tomorrow I`m going to Valdez, Alaska to film for the FLOW Team video and to compete at "King of the Hill" Big Mountain contest.

tailgatealaska.com

BIG ThÄnx to all the FLOW guys(Anthony, Andrew, Christoph, Sepp, Mark and all others) and to Mark Sullivan for the invitation!!

Keep you up 2 date and will be back mid of April... oleeeeeeeee

FWT Verbier Xtreme # 2

2nd try Verbier Xtreme finals... and the Winner is: Xav De le Rue!! Congrats to the best Freeride Snowboarder and two times World Champion and of course also to Mitch Tölderer, who got 2nd overall!! BIG!!!

Overall 2010: 3. Matt Annetts, 1. Xavier De le Rue, 2. Mitch Tölderer

The Champions: Candide Thovex(Ski) and Xav(Board)

For me it didn`t go that good. With a strong and fast run in the upper part, where I had to deal with lot of sluff, I went this time for the so called "Hollywood" cliff. I droped the cliff to the side with a nice grap but probably I hid a rock seconds after the landing and made a frontflip straight after. F.......k! Back on track I finished my line but a good result was not possible anymore. Right after in the finish I was disappointed because I knew it was a good run but with that mistake no chance for the podium, 8th place. Next time!!

my line down the Bec des Rosses

good snow

Nicolas Halewoods - THE man who makes this all happen...!!

FWT Verbier Xtreme

On Saturday we tried to have the Final of the Freeride World Tour on the Bec the Rosse in Verbier, Switzerland. Due to bad weather coming in after some riders, competition was canceled. So we all enjoy the street flair here in Verbier with live music, good food and lot of people coming to watch.

Verbier Xtreme2010 - Team Austria ;)

BIB draw, all snowboarders

Tomorrow we expect blue sky, another chance to ride the Bec... I feel good with the line I did on Saturday, but I also know I can do it even better. With 20cm of fresh snow from yesterday I try to pimp my run with some more drops and go as fast as I can in the steep and between the rocks!!

middle of the face

lot of sluff... but I`m faster!!

Click here to watch my run: