Climbing day in Nösslach…

Monday, 18th June…

…went climbing with Jess in Ötztal… Ötztal offers a variety of different climbing routes of all abilities… We decided to drive to Nösslach and go climbing there…

More infos: http://www.oetztalclimbing.com/content/index.php/klettergebiete/nosslach.html

It was a good day of climbing, the sun was killing us thoug 😉 No, but it was really hot after climbing the first routes in the shade… I like climbing a lot, it’s such a good change from biking, good for your mental strength… 🙂

Have a look on Jessie’s Homepage!!!! She is an extraordinary artist, painting soooooo beautiful mountain pictures!!!!! I’m a FAN!!!!

…got back to Innsbruck around 7.30 p.m. and I had one thing in my mind… Wanted to sleep outside on the mountain this night and wake up with a sunrise in the morning… Came different though ;-)…

So I packed my stuff (bike etc…), got ready and drove to Grinzens, further on into the direction of Salfeinsalm… Parked my car there, biked up to Salfeinsalm, from there I had to carry and toss my bike for nearly an hour…

10 p.m. – at the top of Salfeins at 2000 m… A little too late but still I could enjoy the last minutes of the sunset…

So the plan was to sleep up here… At this beautiful spot… But, the weather didn’t mean it that good with me… At least sheet lightning’s were reminding me that there could be a thunderstorm very soon… I ignored it and stayed up, as the lightnings where still far away… No rain, no thunder so far… It was dark, all by-myself up here, in the mountains, really all by my-self? I heard a noise but didn’t see anything… Ignored it… Lay down in my sleeping bag and tried to sleep… Tried to… It didn’t work though 😉 What a comfort to sleep in a bed with a comfy matress… Didn’t bring that with me… Extra weight…

Suddenly, it was around midnight, it started to slightly rain and a flash of lightning reminded me… You have to go ;-)… I was up again, in the dark and 20 meters in front of me a sheep, all by itself… That was the noise earlier on ;-)… But where was the herd???? Packed my stuff at midnight, my bike, headlamp and started my way down… Of course on the bike… But I had to find the trail before I could start my adventure down… Five minutes and some lightnings later I finally could start my ride down… Wow, that was really cool!!! And due to the lightnings I had good light 😉 Trailsurfing at midnight with sheet lightning…

Although I was all alone, I wasn’t scared at all… It was a cool challenge to bike down in the dark 😉 I’m sure when you do that more often, it helps your technique extremely!!! There are already a lot of people biking in the dark (with better headlamps that I had) but I think it’s not soooo cool as you scare mother nature, especially the animals!!!! The poor cows, I went by really slowly but they were scared!!! So please respect nature!!!!

Got back to my car and it started to rain… At Zirl there was a big thunderstorm, the road was wet… Here a picture of Alex, who made a picture that is quite impressive…

Home safely… Good night 🙂