Blogs from Baden, North-East, Switzerland, Europe - page 2

ok, die technik kann ein segen aber auch ein fluch sein, aber später mehr.. grundsätzlich waren wir beide sehr darüber erfreut, dass die familie bei der sie in ecuador lebte über einen adsl anschluss verfügte, somit folgten etliche skype unterhaltungen, über vermissen, liebe etc. etc. auch darüber wie ihr leben sich bereits verändert hat, schlussendlich kamen wir zu dem schluss, dass wir die reise gemeinsam machen werden. machen müssen um uns nicht zu verlieren, um uns nicht als fremde wieder zu begegnen. lange trug ich diesen entscheid mit mir herum, sollte ich wirklich mein studium, meinen job, mein leben hier hinter mir lassen. mein über ich, welches gerne mit herr existenssicherer angesprochen wird, lief amok. auch mein näheres umfeld stand meinen gedanken kritisch gegenüber. trotzdem fällte ich für mich in einer nachtschicht morgens um 3 den ... read more

So after my stint of the southern coast of France I headed with Justin to meet his friend in a town called Riomaggoire, one of the five towns of Cinque terre. The 5 towns are on the coast but are bult with in the hills of the coastline. It is one of the more scenic areas of Europe to see. After a pizza on the beach for dinner the first night we called it a night. In the morning we headed out on the 12km hike between the towns. It was very nice this day cause there was cloud cover, thank goodness, cause it would have sucked if it was 35 degrees like the day before. So it was a comfortable 25ish. The hike lasted about 4.5 hours and involved lots of stairs. Yippy. From Cinque ... read more

Well guys, the end is in sight, after the fastest 3 months of my life we have only 10 days to go until we return home..... boo. But on the up side, we have had soooo much snow recently, it has hardly stopped for about 10 days so plently of untracked runs, unfortunatly the snow is quite wet and heavy so not ideal snow. I picked up a new board during a flying visit to the uk last weekend to see Anna, its a beautiful board, a touch longer than my last board and stiffer, much more responcive and quite hard work in the trees but it floats like a dream in powder and is very very solid off big hits. So what to do for the last 10 days, well we've been hitting the monster ... read more

Hey everyone, Well Switzerland has been a wonderful place to be this last week, mainly due to the amount of fresh snow. We’ve probably had about 18”-2’ but the cold weather has kept it in beautiful condition. The weather has been quite bad from time to time and visibility quite low in places hence we’ve had to look a little bit harder for lines and hits. One thing we’ve been working on in the last week or so is tree riding. Riding whilst looking down through trees, looking for a line is a skill we’ve both been working hard on, add in a few natural hits, fresh untracked powder and you have the kind of run that dreams are made of. Check the photos. Anna arrived on Thursday to spend two weeks in beautiful Davos. For ... read more

(This is one I was supposed to send about a week ago! Sorry its taken so long to publish. I'll write another one in the next few days for the last week!) Well, what a week, Sunday we went exploring and managed to find some awesome tree runs with relatively few tracks (considering it hadn’t snowed in about two and half weeks!) so we sessioned that for a few hours, Monday we went back to the same spot but headed further away from the piste and found completely fresh snow amongst the trees, we also go a little adventurous and hiked up a ridge to get to some powder on a beautiful piece of off-piest-come-back-country……. Cool!!!! Yesterday snowed for the first time in about 3 weeks and we had loads and loads of it. ‘cos of ... read more