back country
I spent last weekend in the mountains, on the Hintertux glacier in Zillertaller area. I thought I had said goodbye to the season in May, when Martin came to visit, but Hintertux is open all year round offering fantastic conditions up in the mountains and lovely summer at the bottom. You get olympic teams coming to train there or people coming out to do their instructor courses...which means you can see really awesome skiers and boarders on the pistes...it's just this time I have spent majority of the time off the trails, hiking up and looking for fresh snow and drops in between the rocks, riding on the untouched trail and maneuvering between rocks and crevasses..all that thanks to my Argentinian friend Carlos who showed me the way and made me use my last breath to climb up with all the gear..
but it was so worth it!
Carlos is from Argentina, he's done skiing ever since he was little: from his stories he told there are awesome trails in Patagonia..South America is on my "to do" list anyway :D
He then spent some time in Canada and free riding back country Alaska! It all sounds so exotic and fascinating I want to pack my backpack and do it all too..everything in its own time though (:
PS I have 4.5 days of work left