Thursday, 30 September 2010

Salewa Soultrip, Pucòn/ Chile #3

Vulcano Villarrica, 2nd try...

Back to Pucòn/ Chile to hike up to the top of the Volcano Villarrica. One week ago we had bad weather conditions but this time everything went perfect... What a magic feeling to look into an active vulcano and smell the sulfur coming out of that huge hole!! Yeahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Salewa Team on the way up

taking a deep breath of Villarrica

searching for more... Vulcano Lanin(in the back) here we come!!

McFly and Björn drawing their lines

descent into this epic sunset from the Vulcano

hot springs in Chile - relax from the hike ...aaahhh

back on the way to Argentina in our "Bondi"

Sunday, 26 September 2010

Salewa Soultrip, San Martin/ Argentina #2

hiking through the forest

In San Martin de Los Andes we met up with our friend and local Tato Vasiuk. After some cold beer at "Tatos" bar, the next day we went up to Chapelco, where we did some hikes in the backcountry. Together we spend a few days up there and got nice runs. Totally siiiiiiick!!

todo tranquilo :) like everything here

getting higher...

...and eran more turns

"patagonia powder"

view to the Volcano Lanin from Chapelco/ San Martin de Los Andes

Salewa team on the road again...

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Salewa Soultrip, Pucòn/ Chile #1

The first few days of our Salewa Soultrip we spent in Pucòn - Chile, a super nice village situated next to the active vulcano Villarrica. Twice we tried to hike up to the summit, but weather did not allow us to make it to the very top...

McFly, Björn, me and the Volcano Villarrica

Nevertheless the unique landscape here is impressive and we really enjoy our trip. Living in Andrè Sommers bus called "Bondi" makes us flexible to go were the best conditions are and gives us the possibility to stay up on the to the mountains and enjoy epic sunrises and beautiful sunsets... Life is good!!

Andrè Sommers "Bondi"

When we arrived in Santiago de Chile, we spend one day sightseeing with our friend Nico Demetrio who showed us around and had tasty chilean lunch(Pisco Sour, vino y mucho bife de lomo... mmmhhhhh). Later we took our flight to Temuco, where we met Andrè. Right now we had some good days in San Martin - Argentina. More including some pictures soon...

HASTA PRONTO

Sightseeing - Santiago de Chile




Sunday, 5 September 2010

Summer in Austria #2

01. September 2010

Buuuuum

40cm of fresh snow made the decision easy - lets go and ride some powder!! Second time this "summer" we went up on Hintertuxer Glacier and had a super nice day... Check out the short VIDEO my shred buddy, Johannes "Joi" Hoffmann put together.

I'm also super happy to announce my new Sponsor SALEWA!! Together with the Salewa FreeSki Mountaineering Team - Martin "McFly" Winkler and Björn Heregger we gonna check out the Chilean and Argentinean backcountry for the next 3 weeks, starting on Thursday this week.


PowPow deluxe, 1st September 2010!!


PURE 30 PRO Backpack

Crusing....

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Summer in Austria #1

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

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

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

Sunday, 9 May 2010

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

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!!