Challenges in Summer #1 – River surfing
Summertime – the weather is easy. To be honest: Most of the time it’s too hot for me, that’s why I’m incredible thankful, that this summer we have a lot […]
Category Archives: boardsports
What I dream of….
I’m dreaming of freedom and focus, of silence and remoteness… Till my dreams come true, a couple of tree runs from mid January 2016 serve the purpose as well. The […]
A road trip to the west of Austria – searching for the powder at the end of the old year
This is a hard winter. Maybe those climatic circumstances are not even worth calling winter. Most of the Alps are brownish green up to high altitudes. Be it climate change, […]
Icetools Catalogue Shooting – Stubaier Glacier – some stories about stuff #2
Icetools produces board/ski/bootbags as well as backpacks. They also got back protectors, crashpants and knee protectors. The backprotectors are partly made out of memory foam, they are really light and […]
Freeski Mountaineering Camp – Die Bergstation
Time passes by…some things one learns over the years, but some things are too important to be learned without good supervision. Mountaineering and crevasse rescue techniques as well as everything […]
end of season nac retro shred
Fun post…shredding in retro outfits, in admiration of the long story of Alpinism and freeriding. Sme gusy even showed up with original climbing outfits from the 50ies. NAC (NorthernAlpsCollective) were […]
What I found…
…during the last days. Thanks Andy for the photo work from afar.
Splitboarding on a thin layer of snow
Because of a southern stream all the beautiful Powder which we got around New Year turned to rather wet snow. That was a good chance to check out some future […]
Powder at the End of the Year
Finally it happened! Pretty late this year we got some powder here in Styria and Salzburg. Definitely days for the old setup though, as there is practically no snow underneath […]
Winter start without snow
Last weekend I spend my first days in the mountains since summer ended. There was this tiny problem of no snowfall for nearly one month in the whole of Austria. […]
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