Mai 2010 – MELs' Blog

First downhill session :-)

Posted on May 29, 2010May 29, 2010 by meltirol

….ahhhhhh, feel like a child, smiling and smiling and smiling 🙂

I got my new FULLY 🙂 yeaaaahhhhh 🙂

Oh man, soooo happy 🙂

Went with Alex on a bike tour yesterday to inaugurate my new bike. Biked up the “Rumer Alm”, had a drink up there before we extended our suspension fork’s for the fun part of biking – biking down ;-)… Cool trails through the forrest, challenging but a lot of fun 🙂 For some parts of the trail I had to get down as it was quite slippery, hard turnings, steepness… but most of the trails I managed… We had soooo much fun 🙂 Thxxxx Alex ;-)…

Biketour Kreuzjöchlsee

Posted on May 29, 2010 by meltirol

After the great days in South tyrol, me and Lisi decided to go on a bike tour and explore our beautiful home mountains 🙂

Lovin’ it:-)

We started from Hopfgarten/Brixental (620 m), biked to Westendorf – Kirchberg further to the Wiegalm (1505 m), up to the Kreuzjöchlsee (1700 m) and with some wrong short cuts we arrived Westendorf and Hopfgarten again…

hp_kreuzjoechlsee — pic from http://www.tourenwelt.at

CIMG9715 — Kitzbühler Alps and surroundings...

CIMG9723 — awesome peaks :-)... didn't have a map but have to find out this peak's name...

CIMG9731 — Lisi and Mel at Kreuzjöchllake

CIMG9738 — hmmm... endstation... had to turn around and bike back a couple of km's...;-)

…bike&climb in South Tyrol…

Posted on May 25, 2010 by meltirol

…it’s been another awesome weekend in the mountains 🙂

…went climbing FR afternoon with Erik, wrote one of my seminar works and followed my friends on Saturday to South Tyrol…

On the way down there I had to stop by in the beautiful “Valsertal” where I haven’t been before… Well, there are still a lot of unexplored areas on my to-do list 😉 But on the way there I had to follow the snow… Snowcaptured mountains, there is still a lot of snow on top, as it has been a snowy and rainy month… So I drove into the valley, took out my bike and biked all the way up until the valley ended… Beautiful 🙂

CIMG9651 — impressive peaks still covered in lots of snow...

It’s really incredible how beautiful our nature is :-)!!!!

Back to the car, drove to Brenner and further on to the Jaufenpass, puhhh, still a lot of snow up there and quite chilly and windy… My final destination for tonight was Naturns but I couldn’t get hold of Toni, so I decided to go wild camping… 😉 Found a cool spot near the river in the Schnalstal and stayed there overnight…

Met Toni, Josh and Madeleine for climbing the next day… We went further into the Schnalstal to find a very cool climbing garden… Awesome rock, cool to climb… Of course we weren’t the only people there but great atmosphere and a great day there!

CIMG9663 — "Marchegg" climbing garden...

CIMG9659 — ...how you shouldn't belay... the chilly-mode...

CIMG9672 — ...would like to ski down there 🙂

CIMG9657 — Madeleine, Toni and Josh inspecting the wall...

After a beautiful day outdoors we went down to the Camping site to cook some dinner… Mmmhhh 😉 Good to have some food 😉 Nice eve with party music from the local soccer team who won the finals… As the campsite was fully booked I decided to stay at my place from the day before…

Next day another climbing session – this time in Juval… Also close to Naturns… Another beautiful climbing garden with a lot of options to climb… Due to the bank holiday we weren’t alone 😉 But great scenery and beautiful surroundings…

CIMG9681 — part of the Juval climbing spot...

After another great day of climbing, the team went back to the campsite to pack their stuff, I decided to drive in direction Reschenpass and go biking… Haven’t had enough of climbing and was still full of energy… So I found a good spot to start and after a while on the cycling path I saw a sign leading to Switzerland, so the border wasn’t to far away… Challenge for the day 😉 Biking from Italy to Switzerland 😉 One and a half hours later I was crossing the Italian/Swiss border, took a pic there biked back to the car and started my way home… Reschenpass, Reschensee and in the back the impressive mountain range including Ortler, 3905 m

CIMG9708 — Müstair, Graubünden, Switzerland

What a great weekend – Thxxxx to the team ;-)!!!!

…what should I say – Life is good :-)

Posted on May 20, 2010 by meltirol

…I’m in the happy situation that my life is awesome and I may share it with great people! Of course it’s not always like that, as life is a rollercoaster but having a bit distance from winter now, I realize how lucky I am!!!! Not only in terms of skiing of course! But I’m a skifreak – YES I AM ;-)…

Wow, went to the photo-copy shop and got printed out some of my ski pix from this winter – wow – AWESOME!!! Looking really good and quite a cool feeling to see myself hanging on the wall 😉 Big smiling Mel:-) (That was sometimes hard work, therefor it’s really cool…)

And what would life be without friends – at the moment everthing is really perfect – THANXXXX to my friends!!!!

I’m still working with my physiotherapist Klaus on getting stronger and I’m really happy that my koordination is really well 🙂 Finally I’m able to stand up on the gymball, do some “Kniebeugen” (to lazy to look up that word right now;-)…) up there, jump back down on the floor again…

Looking back, what should I say – it has been an awesome winter and I’m already really looking forward to the next 🙂 I’ve met impressive personalities, such as Giulia Monego who is so down to earth – such a cool woman! Sandy was awesome throughout the whole winter, organizing and keeping us up for our movie! Kenny put it together like that: “Such different characters, 6 girls all from different walks of life, all with 1 common passion”… How true!

Yeah, the past months have been all around skiing – that’s part of my life and hopefully it’s gonna stay like that for the rest of my life 🙂 I’m lovin’ it!

It’s weekend again – a long weekend… That’s the cool thing about being a student – a looooot of holidays 🙂

We are leaving for South Tyrol for the next couple of days for a climbing weekend… Looking forward to that!

Wish u a joyful and happy weekend!!!!

Take care, Mel:-)

…Hollywood for a day ;-)

Posted on May 14, 2010May 14, 2010 by meltirol

…It’s been another awesome day, great times with the film crew, the last official filming day where the team has been together… Our Girls Ski Movie… Premiere autumn 2010… Looking forward to that!!!!

Location: TOP SECRET

Sandy, Lori, Pia, Laura, Giulia and me had a “big” performance… Feeling like a diva for a day with our own Make-up artist Michi… 🙂 Thanks to her for the great styling!!!

Thanks to everybody involved in this awesome project for making that possible!!!! Especially Sandy!!! Without you there wouldn’t be this film… We are ALL looking forward to see our performance on the big screen 😉 It has been a great, awesome winter and I’m already looking forward to the next 🙂

Enjoy the day!!!!

…biking, biking, skiing, biking…

Posted on May 10, 2010 by meltirol

…it’s May, the weather at the moment is like in April, so after two days of great biking, I had to make use of my SnowCard and went SKIING 🙂 When you have soooo many possibilities, it’s always hard to choose…

So Saturday, biking in the woods of the Innsbrucker area and on Sunday I went to the Stubaier glacier… YES, I went skiing – CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF IT 😉 I was quite surprised how many cars where parked on the parking place… Smiling like a little girl, I went up the cable car, enjoyed the beautiful view, inspected some new lines to ski for next winter and was just amazed about the awesome surroundings 🙂 Sooo cool, that my knee also felt good, wasn’t that great the last few times on snow… and still isn’t…

Just took it easy, some off-piste skiing, cruising around… I forgot my camera, my cell phone was in the car… so just have my memories 😉

After the ski session I drove to Neustift, took my mountainbike and went on a cool tour to the Pinnisvalley… Not a very long tour but quite intense the first few km’s…

pic taken from http://www.almenrausch.at/mountainbiketouren/touren_tirol/stubaital_wipptal_seitentaeler/pinnisalm/foto_pinnisalm.htm

Xtreme Golf and Zipflbob Comp…

Posted on May 2, 2010 by meltirol

Had soooooo much fun with some of my friends up at the Nordkette…

Xtreme Golf and Zipflbob Comp organized by www.sportyfriday.com and www.freistil.or

Thanks to everybody making this event happen – it was soooooo much fun 🙂

Here are some impressions…

CIMG9578 — Huaba giving some Golf-pro-tip's to Dani...

aufstieg mitn zipflbob — Gipflmarsch mit Zipflbob...

zipflbob masse1 — the crowd coming down on their Zipflbobs...

CIMG9612 — ...running for fame and glory 😉

CIMG9601 — Team AWESOME - awesome Huaba and awesome Erik

CIMG9602 — Team CRAZY KANUCKS - crazy Petra and crazy Mel 😉

petra,mel,babs1 — crazy Petra, crazy Mel, crazy Babs 😉

xtreme nageln mit nussi — Xtreme Nogln - Xtreme-Nagl-Pro Nussi 😉

Update ;-)

Posted on May 2, 2010 by meltirol

…long time no hear;-) …It’s been an adventurous and challenging week… My first week teaching in school, oh man – HARD WORK!!!! 😉 There wasn’t that much time for anything else, well training and physiotherapy of course and a cool biking tour with Dani 🙂

I was sooooo looking forward for the weekend to relax and find new energy for another week of teaching… Will I EVER end up as a schoolteacher?????

I DON’T KNOW!!!!! 😉 Still 2 semesters to enjoy beeing a student and there are sooooo many other possibilities…. So will see… Taking it easy till then;-)

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