What a day! Happy to be back safely… It has been quite a sketchy day today on the mountain, lots of automatic-released avalanches… and not only…
But from the start…
The weather forecast predicted awesome weather for St. Jakob/Defereggen were we were supposed to film for the day… and yesterday we had 30 cm fresh pow – so perfect conditions for today… 🙂
On the road with the crew from Girls Ski Movie – Sandy, Mel and Pia (half the team of female riders), Kenny and Mathias our two cool cameramen 🙂 On the way to Defraggn this morning you could already see lots of avalanches that came down, so we knew we had to be aware and try to keep it as safe as possible… But as Mike Wigele used to say: “An avalanche doesn’t know that you’re an expert…” How true…
We were allowed to take the first cable car in the morning, to be the first on the mountain and try to get in good footage for our Girls Ski Movie…
The day was good – great powder, sunshine, blue sky – what do you want more?!!!?
We skied some nice lines and had a good day on the mountain… For one line I was supposed to ski quite far to the left, skiing not into the bowl. But from my perspective I couldn’t see anything… It was a surprise-run until I realised I was to far right and going directly into the bowl… Not good and a few seconds later the snow above and down below me was breaking and sliding down… My intention was just to ski out the avalanche as fast as possible… I was faster and luckily nothing happend!
Another film-team was on the mountain – Elyse Saugstad and Cody Townsend from the States shreddin’ pow in Defraggn… In the afternoon we watched Elyse releasing a huge avalanche. It was obvious and we didn’t understand that she skied into the face… She was able to ski out, nothing happend – good for her!!!
Have fun on the mountain – BUT be safe and take care!!!!
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