After being in Austria for 3 weeks and the snow not falling, I was pleasantly suprised to rock up the mountain late with my jib board to ride park and be greeted with no people and a top to bottom (untracked) powder run to start my day. All day my top to bottom pow runs just kept on adding up. The only people that seemed to be off piste were some other Aussie and American freeskiers who helped pull me along with their poles!! If you can rock up the hill at 11.30 and ride freshies all day I know i have come to the right place.
To make my day even better I was happy to get accepted to Engadine to compete. As I look out the window now the snow is still falling and its definalty a day for a longer board tomorrow.......................
Tags: austria, europe, snowboarding, fresh powder, engadine
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I have been in Austria for about 10 days now and spent it all in Kreischburg. Let me just say as a mountain its amazing for beginners but thats all. With a free 9 day pass I havent even bothered to ride more than an hour a day. It takes 40 minutes to the top and about 15 minutes down to the bottom pretty much just going straight.
The pipe comp starts today and some of the Kiwi team is here trying to gain their spot in the Olympic team. Its going to be good to watch.
We finally leave tonight and head back home to start riding properly. It seems that my skills on groomers have improved so much since being here!!!! Some how I dont think that will help me for the extreme comps.
Tags: olympic trials, pipe comp, groomers, austria
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