July Update

It's been a while since my last blog posting so here is a little update on how life is around here...

The dogs have settled in very nicely to life around here and are seen daily going out for walks in the field and checking out the backyard. We got Brenner potty trained without too much damage to the white rug in the entryway.


My friend Jimmy and I did the Alpspitze Kletterstieg which was pretty fun. The highlight was sliding down the snowfields with hordes of tourist watching in amazement. Here's some washed out gopro from that...



A day after the Alpspitze I headed to the Upper Ammer to kayak a new river with Jake and Reinier. It turned out to be super scenic but a little flat for my liking. There was once part of the river that you pass a huge cliff covered in moss with a waterfall going over it. Very cool and very green!

Nice shot Jake took of me

Last week I went down to Munich with Jimmy and his girlfriend who is visiting from the states, to hit up a Mac Miller concert which turned out to be pretty good but a little short. We didn't really get into the opening band that  turned out to be an asian guy rapping in German but I guess that makes sense... We met up with three more friends from Garmisch when we got there which turned out really nice.

Mack Miller

I have gotten a lot more into kayaking and it seems like it will continue to be more and more my summer sport of choice. I have gone out at least three times a week with Quirin to the Loisach and got out to check out the Obere Isar last week which turned out to be a little bit boring and the taxi to get to the put in cost €35 because you can't drive your personal car on the road. In the pictures I saw on the Internet of the it looked like the canyon part of the river was a very long narrow winding canyon but it turned out be 200 or 300 meters of canyon which was a little bit of a let down.

I got out climbing with my friend Robert Mraz from Vilseck on the Alpspitze for what we thought would be a relaxing multi pitch route that turned into hellish loose and wet rock route.  I thought we could rappel down but it turned out we had to walk down the frontside using the kletterstieg. We hauled ass down the kletterstieg and the snow patches in climbing shoes to get back to our packs to be able to catch the last tram making it by less than five minutes.
I think that climb was the worst climb I have done it quite a few years. Climbing on shale is not very fun!

A day after the Alpspitze epic Robert, Olivia, and I headed to the Eibsee to relax by the lake and take in a nice sunny day which might have been the only day of true summer in Garmisch! Jake Doherty brought out two kayaks and I brought mine to work on my roll so we had a great time drinking beer and chilling by the lake. Such a nice day!




I've been making the point to take more photos with my DSLR because a lot of times I'll bring my camera but fail to take many pictures with it. Most days I try to make a point to go and shoot some photos even if all I do it take some pictures of the dogs.

Thats life around here for the most part
-Owen