I keep saying that again and again… Time is flying by… Without Internet time would sometimes be spent a little more useful than surfing the www all the time… But that’s part of the game…
Two weeks no update… Lazy Mel 😉 Quite some things happened until then…
Shredding with my friends in deep January powder…
Also in January we went to Obergurgl to meet up with Martini, a long-time ski friend with whom I actually started skiing off-piste… That’s now more than ten years ago… I’m getting old now 😉 hahaha…. It was quite a flashback to meet so many familiar faces and that things haven’t changed at all… Still the same lifties, the same old ski-instructors… Living in the bubble… Obergurgl is such a beautiful place, this winter though, they weren’t very lucky with the snow… 170km/h winds blew all the snow away… But we found it, the white gold… Not much but good conditions to hike and ski some big mountain lines…
Here are some impressions…
After two days in Ötztal my mission was to go to ISPO… Thank godness that the weather wasn’t so good, as it’s quite hard for me to spent my time indoors when it’s possible to spend it outdoors ;-)… So fog around Munich, best time to spend the day indoor ;-)… ISPO (www.ispo.com) is the largest fair trade in the sports industry… The winter sport scene gets together in those four days, new, innovative products are presented, professional athletes show up to meet their sponsors… It’s crazy, wild but always fun! I just made it to my sponsors, for meet and greet and for getting information on the new products for 2012/13. Already looking forward to the new, great stuff!!!!
Also spent some time at the ORTOVOX both with our teammanager Steffi and some riders and stopped by at ZANIER to get the new catalogue and to see how the photoshooting pics turned out…
Enough from winter… We’re leaving now somehow winter and go biking to Italy… Lucky Mel was chosen and invited to join the team of “THE WORLD OF MOUNTAINBIKING” for a week of test-biking and photoshooting for this bike-magazine… Instead of Liguria we ended up in Vischgau, to test the latest bikes for summer 2012… A full week of biking, loads of fun and absolutely cool bikes and people! Thanks a lot to the WOMB Team and of course Maria, from the Flowsisters for making this happen!!!!
One week of biking an then back to winter… It was a great change 🙂 From South Tyrol it went directly to Hochfügen… My clothing sponsor COLUMBIA was main sponsor for the 4 star Qualifier and all the teamriders and testimonials were invited for a get-together in Hochfügen… Temperatures around – 25 degrees made it not so comfy to ski in those conditions… But with Omni-Heat, the new technology of Columbia that keeps 20% more body warmth in your clothing it was manageable… Saturday was Contest day for all the riders. The Ostwand, the competition venue was in great condition, so the riders presented us a great show on this mountain! Dani Fornell Prat from Andorra won the men’s competition, Pia Nic Gundersen from Norway won the women’s comp… Great action was guaranteed! Rider of the day was definetely Fabian Lentsch, our rookie from Tyrol, rocking the Ostwand with an impressive, comprimising line – congratzzz Fabi!!!! Yours is the future!!!! He is 18 years old!!!!
Here is the review of the contest in Hochfügen…
Thanks to the whole Columbia Family for such a fun and awesome weekend!!!!
We are know already at the beginning of February and I nearly finished my update ;-)… Monday was another great day on the mountain! We skied some cool lines in Seefeld and were inspired by tons of ski options…
Wednesday, 8th of February 2012… Finally!!! My final exam is done! I finished my Bachelor studies and now I’m a teacher… Somehow I can’t believe it but believe it or not, it’s true 😉 Happy about that… I made it 🙂
After two days of “intense” preparation for my final exam, I was already longing for some more skiing… Pitztal was on the go today… Changing conditions from hard snow to Bruchharsch to powder snow, everything was to find… Good for me to finally get some tough skiing in… Powder skiing is for pussies 😉 hahaha… In those hard conditions you know and see who is able to ski or not 🙂 Great training day 🙂
Enjoy Life and take care,
Mel:-)
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