Mom and I had a great day in Stubai with over 6 inches of snow in some places and sunny skies the whole day! I brought my camera but as it was the first powder day of the season I quickly forgot I had it and just skied the day away doing laps on the various gondolas. I noticed that my mom has improved a lot in her powder skiing since I last skied with here (2 winters ago!).
Later that day after making the hour long drive back to Garmisch we dropped by a sports store to check out touring boots for my mom which made us in turn start looking at package deals which lead to the inevitable, the purchase of a ski touring package! So stoked to start touring with her. She has always been a great hiking companion and I think she will hit her stride ski touring because her knees don't have to get worked as much on the downhill as they do for hiking thanks to the (hopefully) deep white stuff! Notice how the colors match on her new ski setup...not planned but her jacket also matches. It will be hard to see her on blue bird days!
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| The new members of our family |
After dropping money for the ski touring gear she decided it would be a good day to drop the needed cash on ski passes for the whole family so (FLUSH) there goes €570 or $764 out of my account! It's actually a very good price for the pass because it will work throughout summer for climbing and hiking on all the lifts around Garmisch.
After an exciting shopping spree I took the train home because I had to work in Graf later that night. Accompanying me on the train was what seemed like every school kid in the whole valley but thankfully most of them got off on the first and second stop and after 4 hours I arrived home for a quick nap and then work.
Waking up this afternoon my parents had already arrived and I guess the shopping spree wasn't entirely over, in fact my dad had gone to the same store my mom had bought here skis the day before and found a nice pair of touring boots himself! My boots are definitely the oldest (and cheapest) out of our touring boots but I will use them until they break or no longer function. Today flip-flops cost more than $75 so I can call them a steal for sure!!
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| It's sure hard to tell which ones are mine... |
-Owen
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