FWT #4 Roldal(NOR)

After some weeks riding pretty much powder lines all days at home, the 4th stopp of the FWT was held in Roldal, Norway. A nice village situated in a wunderfull landscape with a small ski resort. With hiking and traversing you can reach good stuff, not as long as in the alps.

It was snowing a lot before we came here, we expected powder... The day we arrived it started to rain, followed by fresh snow the next day. Lots of wind made the conditions difficult for us riders and of course also for organizers.

All in all we had inspection on 3 different faces. The reason: face option 1 and 2 are just too icy and therefore too dangerous...

Sure it is not easy to switch from one line to another within short time, but finally we all had our line in mind. Snow turned out to be soft with some crusty parts hidden in the face. When I was about to start I felt ok, but little stressed because of the tuff program we had. Not sure what was the reason I crash after my first drop. Everything went super fast. I tried to charge hard, the goal was to make it on the podium again. Anyway - part of the game. As there is one result which doesn`t count for the overall ranking, I`m still on 5th place close to Emilien, who takes 3rd overall at the moment. Congrats to my buddies Chris(3.) and Flo(1.) !!! YeaHH!!

Next Event Fieberbrunn, 10.03 !!

Roldal ski resort some T-bar lifts

face check - option #1

face check - option #2 contest face(option #3) from judges view

face check - option #3 Chris doing face check ;) on his computer

SNUS ...makes skiers happy

hangover after big party!!

going back home

reports @ sport.tirol.at

Interested what happens beside competing at FWT Events like Chamonix and Courmayeur?

Check out this links to get to the reports...

FWT Chamonix "Am Fuße des Mont Blanc"

FWT Courmayeur "Pasta, Vino und Big Mountain Snowboarding"

FWT Chamonix(FRA) and FWT Courmayeur(ITA)

YESSSS!! Got a 2nd place in FWT Courmayeur/ITA!! Good snow, blue bird and a great run - what a perfect day! Right now 3rd place in OVERALL ranking...

me (2.), Ralph Backstrom(1./USA) and Douds Charlet (3./FRA)



face check

happy about my line choice
heli time...

Baaaaammmm!!
my line from the top
my new toy ;)
beautiful panoramic view
FWT 2012 OVERALL ranking after 3 out of 6 events

FWT Chamonix

First day we arrived in Chamonix all lift stations were closed because of too much snow the day before... PERFECT ;)

The next day Mitch Tölderer, Xavier De Le Rue, Mathieu Crepel and me did some sick runs at "Le Brevent" before line check in the afternoon for next days competition. Well, contest was not perfect - super flat light, meaning bad visibility and I could not ride my line as planed. Upper part was good, some solide riding and clean drops but for the last feature in my run I had a bad feeling and decided not to do this double drop... ended up 6th place. No worries, I knew I can do better...

Same day in the evening we all moved to the other "sunny" side of Mont Blanc for the Courmayeur Event.

welcome to Chamonix...

event village wow!!! my line in Chamonix

FWT Revelstoke #1 VIDEO

FWT Revelstoke - Snowboard Day Highlights



FWT Revelstoke - "Behind the scenes" report @ sport.tirol.at

FWT Revelstoke #1

The 1st FWT event this season was held in Revelstoke, Canada. When we arrived it was snowing and we went straight up on the mountain the next morning. Riding was good even if slopes and backcountry get tracked fast. We had some days riding before contest and took the chance to check out all the tree runs you can reach.

Chris Schnabel, Flo Orley, Ursl Wohlschlager and myself

Contest face called "Mack face" is just next to the resort. We got a heli flight up there which gave us the chance to see more mountains i.e. lines around Revelstoke. Lots of terrain here!!

fasten your seatbelts

I was stoked about my line... first drop, some turns, next drop, don`t miss the entry to the very steep and narrow part of my line, one last drop and pointing the finish gate! yeaHH!! Level of competitors was high, Ralph Backstrom(USA) took the win. Congrats dude! I ended up 5th place.

me going fast finish area Sure I noticed that it`s snowing like hell back home in Austria and 2 days later I discovered already new lines in the tyrolean mountains, which were not possible to ride the last years because of snow conditions. Riding is on!!

Next FWT event Chamonix, 21.-25.01

Some more impressions of our trip... Was a great time! Banff

Calgary - Banff - Lake Louise - Golden - Revelstoke

riders meeting

local bar

BurgerTV #5 - training!

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FWT "behind the scenes"

FWT starts within 2 days in Canada, Revelstoke. I gonna do some "behind the scenes" reports which will be posted @ sport.tirol.at !! Click on the logo and get to the interview.


Reports from all FWT events - Revelstoke(CAN), Chamonix(FRA), Courmayeur(ITA), Roldal(NOR), Fieberbrunn(AUT) and Verbier(SUI) right after each event... Check it out!