A different day.

Helluva day. Drove to Kitzbuhel to watch the Hahnenkamm training, skied down the side of the course, and then down the GS, watching young nutters hurling themselves over cliff edges at 90mph. Then went over to Westendorf, and did a few runs. Just made the last run in Niederau. Getting my moneys worth out of the Tirol season card.
Just missed out on a meet up with an Austrian WC downhiller, I was late ~ a guy I have done some work for in the past year.
So far, managing a drawing every day, and managing some painting, too.
It's a hard life in the mountains.....

Glad you having fun. Look forward to you showing more images of you're paintings.
Going to westendoff in a couple of weeks and really fancy doing the hahnenkamm race runs. Which runs are they and will they still be rock hard

Dave, that Hahnenkamm really is awesome, or more correctly, terrifying, just to look at isn't it ? I had the pleasure a few weeks ago (before my little accident!) of skiing over from Hollersbach to Kitz, using the 3S gondola, which was mighty impressive, and taking a close look at those cliff-edges etc. Glad you're having fun.

I've always loved the Hahnenkamm, especially when you had nutters like Bode or the Herminator throwing themselves down the mountain as if it was a walk in the park.

The Lauberhorn last week was amazing. Johann Clary from France actually broke 100Mph - yes - that is MPH. He went through the speed gun at something like 161 KPH. INSANE!!!

That is a fast speed gun time, Wanderer. I spent some time this morning, talking to, and skiing with, (using that term loosely), members of the Canadian and Norwegian ski teams, in our Race Arena.
One of the Canadians acclelerated from T-bar level, and would have been close to 90kph prior to entering the speed channel.I didn't see the result, but 140kph has been broken here before. (Well above my puny 100kph)
Isn't it wonderful, that in the same day, I skied with some Disability Snowsport people, and rescued a lady off a steep pitch.
I am about to leave and get my free beer!!!!!

Dave. That certainly sounds like a very interesting and fulfilling day 8)

If I wasn't heading out in just over 2 weeks, I'd be very jealous :oops:

Wanderer wrote:Dave. That certainly sounds like a very interesting and fulfilling day 8)

If I wasn't heading out in just over 2 weeks, I'd be very jealous :oops:

I would be interested in how you went on, Wanderer.
Apart from the skiing, I had a really good social time, (Well, I was out here solo!) Several visits up to the Kellerwirt at Oberau, where one of my mates regailed us with his stories of meet ups in Niederau & Oberau with every day folk like Hermann Maier, Fritz Stroebl, Franz Klammer, Patrick Ortlieb, and a few others. (They come to niederau for race training).
To be fair, my mate does spend a lot of time in the Kellerwirt, so he will meet most of the visitors. Maier became a friend since both he and my mate had both been bricklayers!
Also, I did have a thoughtful five minutes, as I pondered, (after a fruitless hour and a half trying to get from above Ellmau back to Scheffau), when it was -15deg, and 5 min before the lift closed, and no apparent way of getting off the mountain.
I was with a group of eight, all experienced skiers, all reading the worlds worst piste map. They chose to try again going down to another lift. I went up on a couple of chairs, skied down into Ellmau, and got a taxi back to my hire car in Scheffau, 12eu. I later found out that two of the people had walked off the mountain,getting down at 8.00pm.
Had a good, slightly emotional meet up with Simon, the ski instructor that walked from Niederau to Glasgow, to raise money for ovarian cancer.
And~ I go back in a few days, mit frau!