…just got home from filming in Gastein where we had some good days on the mountain 🙂
Thursday although wasn’t with us – we came to Sportgastein in the morning to catch the inspection cable-car BUT they didn’t let us go up… The reason: 90-100 km/h wind 😦 Sandy tried everything possible to get us up the mountain because the weather wasn’t to bad at all… After waiting, waiting and waiting and Sandy trying, trying and trying, we had to give up… The lift boss wasn’t willing for a compromise…
So we left Sportgastein and went to Angertal, a skiresort in the Gasteinervalley trying to get some footage there… Well, the weather wasn’t with us, clouds were moving in… Not a lucky day… So a chilling day, portrait shooting with Mirja Geh later in the afternoon, checking out the weather and snow conditions and a nice eve at a pizza place in Gastein…
Friday, bluebird, sunshine, powder – perfect conditions for filming… Again in Sportgastein…
It was quite a productive morning but around noon it started to get cloudy again and the light wasn’t good for filming anymore… Also when skiing down, Matthias crashed, hurt himself at his leg, so me and him didn’t go up the mountain anymore… My knee needed also a rest and I’m very, very happy that I’m able to ski and film with the girls again 🙂
Giulia, Sandy, Pia and Kenny headed up the mountain again and were lucky that the weather turned out to be good again 🙂 Happy for them 🙂 So they could film some more pillow lines and tree runs…
In the meantime Matthias and myself had a nice afternoon in Bad Gastein with kebab, coffee and cake… We checked in to the Mondi Bellevue hotel – a four star hotel with everything you need 🙂 I needed to relax and take it easy with my knee, so whirlpool and swimmingpool were a great option 🙂 Spent quite some time there :-)… The best thing: EVERYTHING FREE for us 🙂 THXXXX to GASTEIN TOURISM for making this possible :-)!!!!
The decision was made that we would stay for another night and go over to Ankogel the next day if the weather was good there. Niklas Hollsten, an awesome snowboarder, rider of the Freeride World Tour accompanied us in Gastein and would also guide us the next day at Ankogel, his “home-resort”… Thxxxx Niklas!!!!
Got up to the top of the mountain, the light was good and Matthias saw a nice, short line to film. Pia was already further in front checking out the area, Giulia wanted to have a warm-up run and Sandy wanted to do a different line, so I decided to hike up there… Bootpacking up in a sluff that came down a day before was not a problem but afterwards I had to work hard to get along cm by cm… I was stuck in the snow up to my hips, could not really move forward, always had to push snow further down to my boots to get on… Hard work 😉 but was worth it 😉 Great pow there…
Giulia loves to ski down steep mountains, so she found a cool one to ski down but it was very rocky at the top-section… I guess she didn’t care, her ski was broken anyway, so she skied down that thing, looking good as always… Niklas and Sandy hiked up an awesome looking colouir, steep – little Alaska face 🙂 I was lucky to see both coming down, Sandy skied down fluid, looking great from my view 🙂 That was definetely the line of the day 🙂
Until noon we were lucky with the conditions, later on the sun got to powerful, spring conditions and no more pow… So we skied off the mountain, took the train back to Gastein and went home…
HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYBODY 🙂
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