It’s been a blast! A week full of fun, great skiing, awesome atmosphere, cool people – VIVA ANDORRA!!!!
Together with Kata Mihaljevic and Pati Gstrein I started out this skitrip to Andorra. We flew from Memmingen to Girona, 80 km’s out of Barcelona, rented out a car there (unbelievable how cheap!!!! 170 Euros for the whole week including everything!!!!) and headed over to Andorra. Xixerella near La Massana was our homebase for the next couple of days, half an hour drive of the skiresort Arcalis. Gri Reichenberger, his girlfriend Lisa Schmölzl & Eric Zeller joined us, we shared an appartement together and just had soooooo much fun 🙂
The first day we got there we already had perfect skiing conditions. It was dumping the days before, so we had 30 cm fresh powder on the first day! The skiresort offers great treeskiing and is a great freeride area… They also had lack of snow this season but it was still much better than in the alps!!!
Three days in a row we had awesome conditions in the backcountry and skied also with the locals that took us there… Sooooo nice people and never in a hurry!!!! Tranquillo, tranquillo – take it easy and slow 😉
Sorry, the pix are a little messed up…
Saturday: Contest day… 3* FWQ El Dorado Freeride…
3 years of no comps due to injuries and filming… but I was really looking forward to ski that face as it was a challenging face with many options. I chose a technical line as I considered most of the riders would take a fast, fluid line with some drops… For me it was just riding for fun… Lots of knee injuries inbetween, so I was just taking it easy but knew that it would be a problem at all… On the way up it was very windy, quite hard to keep on track but that’s what I love most of being in the mountains. Feeling the elements 🙂 From the top I considered that I would ski my chosen line and was looking forward to start and ski down there… I was the only skier girl that chose that line… Some other girls wanted to ski the same line but thought it’s to narrow for them… The entry was quite challenging as you had to drop into that small colouir… It went good, had to drop over a small cliff band and was nearly out of the colouir. Suddenly I crashed. I don’t know why but somehow I hit the snow with the skitip got stuck… Tumbled… and just thought… Nooooo… But I was happy that I could stand up again without being hurt 😉 Skied down easily and thought… Well, okay, good experience but why did I fall??? The level of the girls was really good – international riders from all over Europe and even Argentina took part… It was great to watch them coming down as the showed high performance freeriding!!!! Kata crashed too, Lisa didn’t, she had a fast, fluid run, Pati had a nice one too, Eric’s run was also solid and fluid… Bad luck for Gri as he was starting nearly last… The weather god didn’t mean it good with him and the visibility was really bad… He had a good run but with hardly any visibility… Team Austria with Patrick Schwaiger, Flo Wieser, Andy Kocher, Wolfi Kocher, Manuela Mandl, Pati Gstrein and myself and Team Germany with Kata Mihaljevic, Gri Reichenberger, Elisabeth Schmölzl, Eric Zeller… It was great fun!!!!
Here is the video from the contest:
…and that’s my line from the upper part of the face…
Don’t ask me why but I got 3rd!!!! 😉 The level was high of the girls but a lot of them crashed including me… Nice, won 200 Euros 😉 and still can’t believe it ;-)…
Videos from the contest…
Sunday after the contest it was dumping again but we headed further south again… Barcelona… NEVER go there by car if you don’t have to 😉 We didn’t have a map, a navi, anything, just a slight overview where to go to find our appartement… Of course we couldn’t find it straight away, with the help of some people and a taxi driver we finally found the appartement where we stayed for the next two nights… 😉
Barcelona is such a beautiful city and worth going there anytime!!! Just one day is quite less time but it gave us an overview how cool this city is 🙂
…and here the video edit cut by Mel ;-)… still working on getting better 😉 hahhahha….
Enjoy watching 🙂
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