26.05.2009

Cima Tosa - Canalone Neri (Icecouloir)

The Cima Tosa is the highest peak with 3173m in the Brenta group (Italy). Alex and me went there on friday, march 22nd to climb up and ride down the longest Icecouloir of the east Alps - The Canalone Neri (50°) with a vertical drop of 850m.


really really heavy bastards


we had to carry our whole stuff four hours to the winter room


midnight cooking in the winter room


we went on at half past four


sunrise at the Cima Tosa


Alex is entering the couloir


I'm just before the Icewall


nearly the whole way down is a no fall zone, because the icewall is waiting for you at the end


the couloir was too icy, so we had to decide us against the descent ...


... read between the lines ...


the drop in with a really beautiful background


last view down :-( but only a view



so we had to rope down the normal way


one of our rare turns


a short break near the winter room, before we had to carry our stuff back
And there we got an aprovement, that we made the right decision, because we saw an avalange coming down the Canalone Neri!!! And some big rocks came down the wall you see behind Alex.


pretty exhausted on the way back


Last view back, after 16h of hicking...

Cima Tosa Alex und Dani from Alex Sk8 on Vimeo.



Innsbrucker via ferrata + Fiegl descent

... coming soon

Fiegln with friends at the Seegrube

On Sunday May 17th, we decided to have a spontaneous spring off Fiegl session


Joggl, Alex, Max & Me


the famous Karrinne


riding in a chain... really funny


Alex is making a 70's style stunt


this is the extremely spectacular and really serious video ;-)

Figl Session Seegrube 17.05.2009 from Alex Sk8 on Vimeo.

13.05.2009

Fotoshoting with Mad Moe Lechner

On sunday may 10th I went with Alex and Moe to the Pitztaler glacier, to get some nice pictures while playing with the glacier ice...


... 360° backsidegrab from a glaciergap ...


... Indy ...


Big thx to Moe, it was a really nice day!

Weisseespitze Northface

On saturday may 9th I went with David and Joi to the Kaunertal to hike and ride the Weisseespitze (3535m) northface with 50° ...


... from there we had to go on with the climbing irons ...


... it`s a long way to the top if ya wanna rock`n roll ...


... from the top you can see the Weisskugel ...


... in the front is the Gepatschferner,
in the back left the Hintere Schwärtze, in the middle the Marellspitze and right the Similaun ...


... I'm opening the northface in super good conditions ...


... David is following ...


... nice turns in the middle of the face

Still powder in Obergurgl

On may 1st I went with some friends to Obergurgl, still praying for some powder...
... and we found it in plenty of northsided faces!!! YEAH


...


... me with a turn to a small drop...


... dropin around in this perfect powder ...


... we are watching at our last run, to keep it in our mind!!!

Hochgall Northface


On April 23th me and Max drove to Southtirol to ride the Hochgall (3436m) Northface with 55° and a 300m vertical drop. But the weatherforecast was not really right, because the weather was really bad.


... at this point we already hicked 7 hours, still hoping for a weatherchange...


... finally we had cancel our project at the base of the northface, because we were not able to see anything ...


... pretty wasted at the last meters ...

stylomatic beanie

... the real one ...


... the emblem one ...


... the plain one ...


helmet beanie

... pretty comfortable under the helmet ...

spring/fall beanie

... Tignes style ...