Caidom Downhillrace… Brixen, Italy…

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www.caidom.it  

It should have been my first downhillrace but sometimes it comes different than you think ;-)…I am not 100% happy with the decision but it was raining cats and dogs in the morning, snow was still covering the mountains, my body is still sore from the crashes yesterday and after the hard training run yesterday I considered it would be better not to ride the race… Sometimes it’s better to listen to your body and not overdo it, as injuries happen quite easily with not standing 100% behind what you are doing… I know what I’m talking about ;-)… (Had enough injuries already ;-)…)

To the day yesterday… When even the guys say that the conditions are difficult and really hard – that has to say something ;-)!!! I was part of it, although just in the training but it gave me the opportunity to meet some cool people, have a great time, even if the training run down was the hardest what I’ve done so far… Happy I survived it 😉 1000 hm downhill in slushy, muddy and sooo slippery conditions… Hard work… And then today the race – 1000 hm more!!!!

We started the training run from the top station of the cable car Plose, up at 2000 meters, down the forrest with hardly any trail, just the bikers and the mud made kind of a trail, slippery and really hard to ride… It had snowed over night and it was soooooo muddy and slippery…. The first 200 meters where just going straightline downhill underneath the cable car, having trouble with holding the balance and not getting stuck at some rocks, I just crashed twice ;-)… hehe…

...the conditions yesterday... HARD!!!!!

OMG, it was really hard!!!! On foot it was so steep and slippery that you could hardly keep on your feet… Sliding down the mountain… Okay with dry conditions it would have been much easier but those conditions made it really hard and challenging… You should have seen all the riders… Muddy and full of dirt from head till toe… Some riders had dirt overalls on which was definetely the  best solution!!!! Down at the washing zone where we had to clean our bikes before going up again, there was just a huge lake of dirt 😉

...before everything started...

Today I was just a spectator with Babs but having in mind what those guys and not to forget some really great girls are doing! That is just awesome!!!!! Hads off!!!! Awesome!!!! And today the race started at 2500 meters leading down to the city of Brixen – 2000 m inbetween, 13km’s downhill, hardest challenge for body and mind!!!! Really tough, believe me!!!!

Some impressions from one section…

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...still 500 hm's to go...
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...Domplatz... full of downhillers 🙂

For more infos to the race: klick on: www.caidom.it or watch some videos from the past years…

Here is the video of the part I rode yesterday… The middle section and hardest part – 1000 hm downhill, muddy and soooo slippery conditions 😉

Videos from this year should be online soon… 🙂

 Congratzzzzz to everybody who made it down and rode the Plose!!!!! AWESOME!!!!

It has been a great event and I’ll be back, riding this mountain, next year – looking already forward to!!! 🙂

Bikepark Crans Montana :-)

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One word: AWESOME!!!! Oh man, soooooooo coooooool 🙂 Had sooooooo much fun riding in that park!!!!! My first time in a Bikepark… and it was just AWESOME ;-)…

Great flow, speedy trails, awesome to ride…

The Signalisation for the trails is the same as for skiing… So blue for beginners, red – intermediate, black – expert, yellow – race track for pro’s…

Started out with the medium trail…. Everything in there… Small jumps, rocky parts, roots, everything the bike heart needs :-)…

http://www.mycma.ch/

Cry D’Er, the top station is on 2267 m, Crans Montana on 1467 m… So 800 hm single trail for each run :-)…

The black trail was of course more challenging… Very steep parts, tight corners, roots, big rocks, jumps… The first time I took it easy to inspect and get to know the trail… Second time was much more “flowy”, rode it all the way without stepping down 🙂 But my arms felt like butter when I was at the bottom 😉 At some parts the heart was pumping a little bit faster but great experience and now I’m just totally infected 😉 If I would have lots of extra money I would buy a downhillbike right away 😉 With at least 200m travel under my bottom… 😉

4 times the red trail…, twice the black trail… If you ever have the chance and are around that area – GO THERE!!!! The infrastructure is great, everything is put on for downhill-bikers… Kona Bike Station at the bottom, Bike wash… Bike park… Lots of trails…

And it wasn’t crowded at all… Just saw some guys riding down when I was sitting in the cable-car…

view down to Crans Montana
beautiful scenery....

no hikers allowed... 🙂
at the start from the medium trail...
🙂
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part of the black trail...

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juuuuhhhuuuuu 🙂
Downhilla comin down...

Found some videos from the trails on youtube… Worth to watch 🙂

http://www.konabikeparks.com/ (Have a look at the Bikepark Playlist section on Kona TV)

...would be fun to ride the lift with those freeride buddies in winter ;-)...

Suonentrail Lötschberg…

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Do you know those days when just everything you do goes wrong? I bet you do! 😉 …I guess everybody has some of those days in his/her life when you just wish that the day is over and the next day begins…

Well, I had one of those days today ;-)…

Finally I had my day off that I was soooo looking forward tooo :-)… Nice weather again, already looking forward to my planned bike-tour: Visp – Brig – BLS Lötschberg Südrampe – Visp…

Parked my car in Visp, got on the bike, 1km later I thought, have I locked my trunk or not? Hmmm… Sh… Did I or didn’t I??? That kept my mind busy but I didn’t want to return, so I just thought, well if not, bad luck, very bad luck… with all my money in there…

My body and mind is quite tired from all the work but I keep focused and try to be motivated as I know that I won’t have to work all winter ;-)… That’s enough motivation ;-)…

I planned this biketour with help or inspiration from a swiss guy, who also biked the Gemmitrail…

The Südrampentrail is located high up the Rhonevalley… Beautiful views to the Mattertal and Saastal with the highest peaks, such as Weisshorn and Matterhorn included…

A cool trail with some really hard rideable parts… The cool thing, hardly any hikers up here today… So no arguing with them ;-)…

And also a very special thing up here are the “Suonen”… German explanation here:

„Suonen sind die Wasserleitungen und Bewässerungskanäle mit welchem im Wallis das Wasser von wasserführenden (meist) Gletscherbächen aus den Taleinschnitten auf die zu bewirtschafteten trockenen Felder und Weiden geleitet werden. Dabei sind entlang der Suonen Unterhaltswege entstanden, die heute oft als Wanderwege dienen und durch Wanderer benützt werden. Daraus folgt: was Wandern recht ist, kann von den Bikem mit Mountainbikes auch oft befahren werden.“

...Suone and next to it the trail...

Well, what else happened during that day? Hit my shin on a rock without my shin guards on (put them on just after that happened ;-)…) and then… My Suunto watch… In the morning it was quite cool but later on it got warmer and warmer… Summer was greeting again… So I stopped to take off some bike wear, including the sleeve extenders… I also had to take off my watch… Well, put everything in the backpack but not the watch (that I of course didn’t realize ;-)..) So I went on… About an hour later I wanted to know how late it was, so I looked at my handwrist… OMG, no watch… No time… The best of the trail was coming up and I didn’t want to return… I knew where to go to find the watch afterwards and decided – If I’m lucky, it’ll still be there , if I’m unlucky, bad luck…

After a great bike ride I was back at the car and had to drive to the place where I lost my watch… And what a miracle… Along this quite frequented bike-path in the forrest it was still lying there 🙂 So happy 🙂 and had to laugh about myself ;-)… Stupid Mel ;-)…

Some impressions of the trail and the beautiful surroundings…

...small village named Mund...
...hi my name is... and I live in "Mund" ;-)...
Weisshorn and Matterhorn in the back...
..so many options to go :-)...
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stairways to heaven... 😉
making fun of myself ;-)...

Gornergrat – Zermatt…

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Another awesome day to enjoy on the mountain :-)… So lucky!!!! This time I biked from Herbriggen to Zermatt and took up the cog railroad „Gornergratbahn“… http://www.gornergratbahn.ch It’s really impressive up to where in Switzerland the train is leading… The Gornergratbahn brings you up from Zermatt (1620m) to the top station (3089m) within half an hour and of course I wasn’t by myself 😉 Hundreds of tourists enjoyed the beautiful weather and took the convinience of the train to get up and be inspired by the wonderful mountains, 29 peaks over 4000 m… The famous Matterhorn included…

Wow, the view up there is really impressive but pictures tell more than words… So here you go…

okay, that's not the beautiful view, soooo many tourists, in the back the famous Matterhorn...
Liskamm, Castor 4228m, Pollux 4092m
...single trail paradise 🙂 but Hikers aren't Bikers best friends ;-)...

 

hahaha... a tourist took a pic from me 😉 ...in the back to the left: Dufourspitze 4634m, Liskamm 4527 m
Breithorn 4164m, Klein Matterhorn 3883m
...tourist attraction up at the Gornergrat... Berhardiner dogs 😉

 

Didn’t stay up at Gornergrat that long, as there were toooooo many tourists… First part of the downhill session started… First down the stairs and then 800 hm downhill 🙂 On the way down two british guys caught up with me and I thought why not take some pix of them to give an impression of the trail…

Downhilla comin' down :-)...
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those trails were sooooooo much fun 🙂

It was challenging as usual but lots of fun 🙂 Also cool that I didn’t stay toooo far behind them 😉 Met them further down at Grünsee again but they jumped in the water and I said bye and went on… In peak season hikers and bikers aren’t best friends 😉 So it’s always quite interesting how the hikers react ;-)…

Grinjisee, a typical photo place to take a pic from the Matterhorn... Beautiful 🙂

Went on my bike tour and soon got on the next single trail that led me down back to Täsch… Another 800 hm downhill session 🙂 Love it… The only thing I don’t like are the sharp corners, they aren’t always rideable 😉 But also getting better and better in riding them ;-)…

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2early shot ;-)...
...biking along the "Europaweg"...
Weisshorn 4506 m...

 

Enjoy your days and take care out there :-)!!!!

Gemmitrail…

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Biking in the Wallis region is a dream for bikers… Soooo many opportunities, especially soooo many single trails to come down…

I’ve been quite lucky till now that on my days off, on planned long bike tours, the weather has been good to be outdoors… So on Thursday, I could go for another spectacular, impressive bike-ride… The Gemmitrail in Leukerbad… A non-official bike-trail that I found out later… ;-)…

Drove to Leukerbad and biked up to the Gemmi Station… http://www.gemmi.ch/ From there I took  the old aerial cable way up the mountain, to the Gemmipass… Oh man, all the people in the cable-car stared at me like I was an alien ;-)… What is she doing with her bike up here… 😉

Gemmibahn...

I just had some pictures and a descriptions of a swiss guy who did that trail already… I was quite curious and a bit nervous… Because… No falling zone…

The view up to the top station of the Gemmi doesn’t give you a clue that there is a trail down… It just looks like an impressive rock face…

That’s the view from Leukerbad…

...can you imagine that a trail is coming down here?????

When going up with the cable-car I was able to spot the trail and take some pictures…

quite impressive ;-)...

wow...

Wow, okay… I’ll be going down there soon… Up at the top there where sooooo many tourists and hikers but due to the beautiful view of the surrounding mountains I could forget them… So first I biked down to “Daubensee” and later on further on a plateau close to the Lammerer hut… Enjoyed the region and panorama but decided to bike down as soon as possible, otherwise I would have trouble with the hikers ;-)…

view down to Leukerbad, in the background the 4000er peaks in the clouds... Matterhorn, Dent Blanche, Weisshorn...
Daubensee...
Wildstrubel 3141m to the left, Lämmerhorn 2806 m to the right, Mel in the middle 😉
...looks like a lunar landscape, being in a different world...
getting ready for take off...

Bunkerbühel, at some places just 1.50 m high...

 Reached the “entrance” of the Gemmitrail and what???? Noooo, a biking forbidden sign… What should I do??? Of course play to be stupid if anyone asking or complaining and go for it…;-)

NO BIKING ;-)...

Adreanaline when going down… Although the trail is secured by ropes, those ropes wouldn’t be a help when falling… So no falling zone… Otherwise parts of the trail, those stairs would lead you directly into heaven…;-)…

Stairways to heaven ;-)... No falling please....

Stairway to heaven, Part 2...

...fun and good training :-)...

I had all reactions from the hikers that were coming in my direction or those who I was overtaking… Though I was slowing down and even stopping at the narrow parts, people were either complaining or nodding there heads but some were also smiling and kind of saying “wow”… A woman biking down here???;-)… But I didn’t pay attention to those people… I just enjoyed that ride and was happy to be down safe…

Great day, lots of adrenaline, happy I made it  🙂

against the wind…;-)

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Had to get out of the valley and see something different… So no mountainbike session, took out my road bike and decided to bike to and along Lac Leman… On the way there I had a few foto stops as the beauty of the nature always amazes me… In the Mattertal there are lots of small villages high up at the mountain… Beautiful, but could you imagine living up there??? When the kids are playing soccer for example and they shoot it tooooo far, it’s gone… Gone 1000 m below the cliffs ;-)…

Embd in the Mattertal...

Getting out of the Mattertal means that the valley is opening up and also the mind is opening up again ;-)… Not saying that the locals are narrow minded, nooooo ;-)…. They are just living in there own worlds…;-)

When driving through Martigny, I already thought, ohhh noooo, the wind is gonna blow me away… So extra training when biking ;-)… Parked my car and started my tour… First aim to go… Montreux… And afterwards… Lausanne… And yes… I was cycling AGAINST the winds… Oh wonder ;-)…

Seeing something different and exploring a new region is always great… And so the wind was just a side effect… 50 km’s later, I arrived Lausanne… A huge metropole, posh inner city and a complete different flair… Well, very French and just French speaking people there… I also know a few words already 😉 hehe…

It was another beautiful day and it was a good decision to stay low, as in the mountains the clouds were still not cast away… My plan going to and biking in Crans Montana will have to wait…

Summer flair and biking along the wine routes…. Very nice 🙂

...cycling along the wineyards...
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On the way back I stopped in Montreux… The “musical capital” of Switzerland… Beautiful mediteranean city, also very posh – you can see who lives here… The rich and beautiful people 😉 Those villa’s and houses… I wonder how many million francs those houses cost…???

view to Montreux and Lac Leman...
Miles Davis Hall...
Ray Charles...

Had a great day in a different world before I drove back to Herbriggen… My home for another month…

Actually I should have worked again today but due to some miscommunication I had another day-off… Well, NO PROBLEM 😉 It was just raining cats and dogs!!!! So what to do on a day like that?? Doing nothing???? NOOOOO, toooo boring ;-)… I’m soooo happy that I have a car, to live the freedom and do whatever I want to do… So I drove to Sierre, a nice town in the Rhone valley, with about 15000 inhabitants to go shopping and strolling around… Later on I drove further to Leukerbad and enjoyed the thermal water with hardly any people younger than fifty ;-)… Was good to relax in the water and just do… Well lets say: NOTHING 😉 Hard for me but good ;-)…

http://www.leukerbad.ch/de/welcome.cfm

Will come back to Leukerbad for biking :-)…

Awesome Bikeweekend :-)…

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After working sooooo hard, I needed a time out – perfect because the weather was good, so my bike was waiting for me :-)…

Sleeping out long and then enjoying the region around Zermatt, biking around the highest peaks… Such a beautiful day!!!! As my energy is reloading again I bought a ticket and enjoyed the convenience of taking the cable-car up and biking down different trails… For warming up I took the 4cross track and had fun playing around…

The 4cross downhill trail...

Then I tried out the Worldcup Downhill Trail…

pure adrenaline...

Wow, for that you definitely need a downhill bike and some balls ;-)… It’s a very tough, hard trail, I managed most of the trail on the bike but for some sections I had to get down from the bike… Saw some downhillers coming down, I bet it was not the first time they did that ;-)…

Some local downhillers...

The second time I did better and the third time even rode most of it :-)… My arms and brakes needed a break, so chilling in the sun with the beautiful view to the Matterhorn…

Matterhorn...

The cable-car ran until 6 p.m., so I took the chance to get in another run and went up one more time to bike down to Täsch, up on the “Europaweg”, with no more people on the mountain – wonderful!!! As a biker on the hiking trails your not really welcomed by hikers ;-)… But staying friendly and slowing down helps at least a bit ;-)…

So a wonderful day with lots of altimeters downhill :-)… At least 3600 hm downhill…

on the Europeway... up on 2300 m...

Alêtsch Arena...
Aletscharena

I’m getting used to taking the cable-car uphill to explore a new region without lots of strength ;-)… In Switzerland the infrastructure is great and it’s NO PROBLEM at all to take the bike up… It also seems like that the Swiss people are already more used to bikers on hiking trails… Seems like that…

My knee doesn’t take to much strain at the moment, so that’s the main reason why I took the cable-car… I already had some info of the official bike-trails but on the hiking map that I got at the station, I just got a normal map… So I went up from Mörel, 759 m, to Riederalp, 1925 in the most convenient way – by cable-car… The area is really nice, hard to capture those impressions on paper… 

Biked all the way up to Hohfluh, 2227 m, to get a perfect view to the huge Aletschglacier…

The impressive Aletsch glacier...

Wasn’t that lucky with the weather up there but doesn’t matter, as I’ll be back when it will be better… At least I will try to… Spend some time up the mountain until I got ready for the first part of the downhill trail… Sunday, lots of hikers on and in the way but thank to my cool bell, I got from my friends, it’s not such a problem 😉 It’s just always the same, they look like I’m an Alien ;-)…

Got down to Villa Cassel, 2065 m and decided to try a path that wasn’t on the downhill list…

Villa Cassel, 2065 m

Sometimes stupidness should really hurt!!!! Oh man, never follow a trail that is approx. 20 cm wide… It doesn’t get better and wider ;-)… But I had to try it and I didn’t want to carry the bike back up… Well, would have been better, so I paid my dues ;-)… On the map the trail was marked as a “Bergwanderweg”, so sometimes those trails are rideable and sometimes not… This one was definitely a no-go with the bike as there was within 600 hm, about 20% to ride and 80% to carry… A hiker passed by and asked where I was going… I answered in American slang and he gave me some info about the options I had… Actually not that many… It was somehow funny, being a different person for a moment… and he believed me ;-)…  I knew where I had to get back so I took the trail the man didn’t recommend me 😉 And he was right… Had to climb up a few sections with the bike on the back and was constantly riding on the edge, no mistake allowed as next to the path it was going down 1000 m into heaven ;-)…

Bike and backpack... 20 kg on my back ;-)... good workout...;-)...
Non falling zone...
it's going down...
Knebelbrücke, 1622 m...

Quite a challenge but what would life be without any challenges 😉 and the adrenaline was sometimes quite high up… Good for the heart ;-)… Finally I got down to the first small village, found some more nice single trails down the mountain until I managed it back to the car… And then – SWIMMING :-)… First time since ages that I’ve been in the water… Soooo crowed there but that didn’t matter, as it was just soooo good to sit in the water, in the thermal water and relax and get a massage from the jets…

 Another beautiful day…. And now my batteries are reloaded again 🙂 Good because just working all the time is not good ;-)…

1500 hm downhill for the day…

Update from the Mattertal…

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It’s been a while and in this month away back from home, what I call ‘TIROL, I’ve experienced lots of new adventures and met already lots of new people living for the same passion as I do – THE LOVE TO THE MOUNTAINS and being outdoors 🙂

Time for leisure activities is limited but therefore I enjoy it even more when I have time for slacklining, climbing or my biggest passion in summer: BIKING – especially improving my downhill skills 🙂

I’ve mentioned it quite often already but I’m sooooo happy with my new bike and have already had some great runs down the swiss mountains… I’m loving it:-)

My last free days are already quite some time ago… But doesn’t matter… Time is flying by and I’m here to work my way around to be flexible in winter and living my dreams… 🙂

I’ve been over to Nendaz last week biking and exploring the area there… 4vallees… Beautiful!!! Well the weather wasn’t that awesome, it was actually quite cool and seemed like raining but it didn’t matter… The only thing that really mattered was my bad no actually worst muscle ache ever!!!!

@ Nendaz...

Let me tell you what or how that happened… I’ve been asked by one of the mountainguides to accompany them for climbing and of course I didn’t say no… But on that day I was working until 3 p.m. and had to be back at work at 6 p.m. So within 3 hours climbing and finding the new climbing wall… As the guys already left earlier and also didn’t have a clue where exactly the climbing wall was, I had to follow my intuition and find it… Hiking up the mountain in the heat, searching and not finding the climbing garden and also limited time… Well, not the best circumstances 😉 But didn’t matter as I thought it would be good to explore the area, to find the way the next time 🙂

Finally I made it and found Tom and Flo climbing, a lot of French climbers also there in St. Niklaus… Impressive and great rocks… The guys were on a “Mehrseillängentour”, so I had to wait for them… Lying in the sun and slowing down… From always working, biking or doing sports, working and sleeping… 😉 It was 5.15 p.m. until I finally got to climb and I knew it would be the only route ;-)… Because it would take me around 25 min to get back to the car… Was a cool route and quite a hard one too but had to leave afterwards… At 5.30 p.m. I packed my gear, backpack and rope to run down the hill on the trail to get to the car asap… As I’m definetely not used to running down the mountain, which is not the best for my knee anyway, I caught the worst muscle ache in my legs ever 😉 But I was fast, within 15 min back to the car, shower, changing clothes and back at work at 6 p.m…. So not bad, right ;-)…

...climbing at St. Niklaus...

Lost track now… Okay biking in Nendaz with my bad muscle ache… Worse pain and of course I can’t do nothing on my day-off 😉 But paid my dues afterwards… Felt like an old lady on that day but was sooooo happy and proud of myself to reach the top-station of the cable-car… Some downhillers came in my direction so I already spotted out some trails to go down… And thats really the coolest part… Working your way up to challenge yourself going down… 🙂 Loving it…

Two days after Nendaz I had another day-off for the next week… This day I couldn’t do any sports, I had to listen to my body and say – NO – recover and “GIVE A RÜAH” ;-)…

So T.M. and myself went over to Chamonix… My first time ever in that awesome place… Loved it there!!! The flair, so many sportspeople around, just awesome!!! Luckily the weather was good in the morning to see Montblanc and Aguille Midi and surroundings… Wow, a magical place to be!!!!

Mont Blanc...
Chamonix...
L'Aguille du Midi Top Station to the right...
at the bottom station...

Shopping day with a man – can be tough 😉 But we had a nice time there and as he already lived there for a while, he was a very good tourist guide 🙂 In change I was his personal shopping assistant ;-)… Won’t have been the last time I’ve been there 🙂

cool wall painting in town...

Yesterday I’ve been to Zermatt again, also a magical place 🙂 Biking around the Matterhorn and the other 4000peaks is really a highlight and I love it there tooo!!!! Right now a lot of skiteams are here for training and just a couple of days ago I met a buddy for a coffee how was here training with his private team… So having good times but also working a lot 😉

Working, working, working,…

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…those days have been very long and intense, working from the early mornings 6.45 a.m. until around 2 or 3 p.m. and afterwards from 6 p.m. till 11 p.m…. Inbetween biking or slacklining to keep fit for winter that I’m already looking soooo forward… No time for being tired ;-)… Looks like it’s gonna be like that for the upcoming weeks… So endurance is needed for the next weeks… My last day-off was last wednesday and next one is gonna be on Saturday… Looking forward to that… If the weather is gonna be good, I’ll be going for another bike tour 🙂 A long one 🙂 jipppiiiii 🙂

And – love my bike 🙂 and love to bike 🙂 DOOOOOWNNNHiiiiiilllll 🙂 yeaahhhaaaa….

The atmosphere here is good, sooooo many hikers, mountain-people and mountaineering guides and quite some that I knew from home… So always fun to see and talk to familiar people who share the same passion – being in the mountains 🙂

Time is flying by, well no wonder, working all day, no time to think about anything else 😉

Enjoy your days… Will keep you posted how the next bike tour is gonna be :-)…

Biketour Saas Fee…

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When your working in tourism, you definetely have to be flexible ;-)…My boss told me at 11 p.m. that I would have my day-off already the next day… Well, no problem but where to go? Didn’t want to hang out in the Mattertal, as I’m always in there anyway… So wanted to explore a new area… As I just had a map from Zermatt and surroundings, I decided to drive over to Saastal and go biking there… Good decision…

view vom Saas Grund up to the mountains...

I haven’t been to Saas Fee before, so that was one reason to go there…

Parked my car in Saas Grund, to start my biketour for the day… It took me a while to find the correct path, as there were so many possibilities to go up there… But biking up a Single Trail is quite impossible, so I decided to bike up the normal way on the street… Spotted out some good downhill possibilities and was already looking forward to go down…

Biked through Saas Fee, a nice little town surrounded by Lenzspitze, Dom, Täschhorn,… some high 4000m peaks…

Saas Fee

It was a good decision to go up high, as the temperatures are soooo hot at the moment… and I’m definitely a person who enjoys cool temperatures…

beautiful...
awesome!!!!! 🙂

The last third of the tour I had to carry the bike on my shoulders up the hill, up the slope and up some single trail… Hikers were passing by and were quite amazed how I could carry up the bike, as the cable car was running up about 50 m beside… 20 kg’s, includes my bike and my backpack… Tough but was a great feeling up the top – Made it!!!

yeahhhh, made it 🙂

A woman up at the top asked me what I will do with the bike and I told her I would bike down the hill…

And that was definitely the best part of the tour… The downhill part :-)AWESOME!!! Challenging and technical… I’m getting better and better… 🙂

Bikers paradise 🙂
Mel coming down...

I LIKE!!!!

So a great day with biking, 4 hours on the bike… In the evening I went with T.M. and Magda, the two Osttirol mountain guides, to Zermatt and had a nice eve there…