Endless Roam: Neue Welt- Zugspitze

Wow, that was a good day of skiing!

The day started with me staring out my window at the Zugspitze with its summit engulfed in thick clouds. Alex and I had already made plans to head to the Zugspitze and decide whether or not we were going to ski the Neue Welt while we were in the restaurant so I packed my car with all my stuff and headed to the Ehrwalder Zugspitze bahn. In the parking lot I could see that there were still clouds in the upper parts of the mountain but it looked like it was lifting as I watched so I was optimistic.

Once I had arrived in the restaurant I met up with Alex and descended to the first t-bar to get us to the starting place of the skin up to the schneefernerkopf. The weather looked grim as we started the short climb to the ridge but got better the higher we got up and by the time we had reached the ridge the sun was starting to peak through.
At the top Alex and I put on harnesses and got a quick bit to eat and drink before a large group joined us with a guide. Looking down the first bowl it looked like there were only two other tracks in front of us which was nice because there was a light dusting of snow on top of the firm layer. After getting a picture taken of us we set off down the slope to the first rise to check out the rest of the run. The snow was solid and we both felt very comfortable skiing down the slope.
We made our way cautiously to the skiers left side and then back to the right were you could easily see the rap station out of the rocks. At this point we should have put our skis on our packs but because this was our first time we carried them to the rap station and then had to get our skis in our packs and our ropes out of our packs while roped into the cable.
All worked out and we soon made our way to the base where we stowed the ropes and tried to enjoy the last little bit of the steep couloir. The snow on the bottom section was pretty awful so we took our time and made it out to the wide open basin in no time where we sat and enjoyed lunch before heading to the Ehrwalder Alm Bahn.
The ski to the Ehrwalder Alm bahn was a series of tree slalom and roads but soon enough we made it to the ski area and skied out to the bus stop where we found out our bus wouldn't arrive for another two hours so we asked around and eventually got a ride from guy all the way back to the Zugspitze bahn. Great day and my first ski rappel, GOOD TIMES!!
-Owen