MELs' Blog

After nearly a month of my tree crash, the torn ligaments in my shoulder and the trouble that my knee is causing me, I’m still not “painfree” but at least it’s getting better. Thanks to my physiotherapist Mary @ Physiotherapy Huber I’m back in the game. Not every day hitting the snowfields but at least from time to time. Working on getting back soon, very soon!

Still I was out there for some events, for example the Junior Freeride Camp in Saalbach. It’s great to work with motivated, young shredders that want to improve their skills in the backcountry. As skiing is an outdoor sport, you always have to accept the weather conditions and can’t change the fact when it’s shitty out there… That’s the way it is – thank goodness!  At that weekend the avalanche danger was out on 4, so very risky out in the backcountry, raining nearly above treeline and stormy wind,  well not the best conditions to hold a Freeride Camp but we still made most out of it!

So we were more focussing on beacon searching, probe profile, interpreting the avalanche bulletin and stuff like that… It was  great weekend! Thanks to all the riders and coach and skibuddy Michi Mayerhofer for some cool time in Saalbach!

Here are some impressions:

Middle of January…

Fischer European Teamweek…

Last winter was the “First Edition” of the Fischer European Teamweek. We were so lucky, had great weather and conditions, perfect playground at the Rudolfshütte/Weißseegletscher Region.

This time was a bit different. Stormy weather, windblown snowpack, hardly any visibility. Due to my injury I was up there just for two days but it was good to get out and see nearly the whole Fischer Family gathered up upon 2315 m. Thanks a lot to FISCHER and everybody involved for making this happen! Also the team couldn’t stay there for the whole week as the weather conditions stayed the same but they went on to find more powder. The webisode should be online soon! Will keep you posted about that!

This winter I am also organizing some Off-piste Days for Freeriders in Co-operation with the Austrian Naturfreunde. http://www.tirol.naturfreunde.at/ Together with the Austrian mountain club (Alpenverein), they are the largest mountain organisation in Austria. Just last weekend I had a day out in the blue with some motivated touring and freeride women, improving their riding skills in the backcountry. Fun day 🙂

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Inbetween Physio and training I had to get out, at least once to rock and roll 🙂 Here is the edit from a really cool day:

Soulride

Back on training now…

Enjoy life and have fun out there,

Mel:-)

There is never a right time for being injured but when you’re outdoors most of the time and do sports, injuries happen… Sucks but can’t help that fact. It’s part of the game…

Crashed into a tree nearly two weeks ago while skiing in the backcountry and tore the ligaments in my shoulder. Happy that nothing more happened and also lucky that it’s the left shoulder… Also my knee is not perfect at the moment, well it all comes at one time 😉

Physiotherapy, training and getting fit again is on my daily schedule now… Getting better from day to day but still some work to do. Hopefully I’ll be back soon on snow…

All the best and take care of you,

Mel:-)

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Hope you all had great christmas holidays and a good start into the new year!!!!!

I celebrated the new year with my friends up on a mountain hut, enjoying the beautiful mountain scenery with great people! Thanks Dani, JB, Jim, Carmen & Stefan for a wonderful come-together!!!! It was such a fun evening!!!!

One day before new year’s eve we’ve been skiing in Ischgl. Never been skiing there before but heard that it’s good for off-piste skiing so we wanted to check out the area… Though it had dumped two days ago we found still some cool off-piste runs and were enjoying the silence away from the Aprés Ski music and more than 10.000 people in the ski area. Crazy!

It was the last run down, an extraordinary tree run, steep and still good snow, where I had bad luck and hit a tree with my shoulder. Result from the X-ray the next day: torn ligaments in the shoulder (Tossy 2), sportsbreak for 10 days, physiotherapy… Same procedure as nearly every year 😦 I guess there’s never a correct time-out for an injury but things happen for a reason, still trying to find out why this happened…

Have a lot of free time at the moment though… 😉

Before the injury I spent most of the time with my friends on the mountain. Great days and moments, here some impressions:

Training hard to get back on track as soon as possible!

 

Ride on, stay safe and enjoy what you do!

Take care, Mel:-)