Short tour of the Langenfelder

I made a short ski tour of an unopened ski run and had a great time making my way back down the small slope before being back the resort. Here's a small clip of that run. The steeper stuff starts at around 3 minutes. Enjoy!
-Owen

Dawn Patrol Hausberg, Dec 10

A little biit of snow

This morning was the best Dawn Patrol I have ever gotten to experience. My alarm went off at around 4:25 and with one look out of the window I was rushing around trying to get my clothes on and heading toward the door with skis and skins already attached in hand. One quick text later to make sure Jeremy was awake and functioning because pulling into the parking lot to find out your partner is still tucked away in bed is a tragedy I try to avoid I ate some breakfast and stepped out into the cold air.
Walking around the garage I was a little disheartened to find my car barrakaded into my parking spot due to a snowplow that had pushed 2ft of packed snow all the way around my car. I swept the 8 or 9 inches of light snow off my car and put in the Suby in gear. Not wanting to waste anytime digging out my car I decided to try just backing up right over the berm a chance and it worked out perfectly. My Subaru surprises me everyday I drive it in the snow.

Skinning past a little cabin

Driving through the town it looked like the snowplows were out in full force but for some reason had yet to plow the entrance road to the hausberg so  the snow got thrown up and over my front bumper like I was snowmobiling all the way into the parking lot. Arriving in the parking lot there was one plow going back and forth as I waited five minutes for Jeremy to arrive and for the tour to get going.
The start of the tour was well groomed until we got to the first major rise and after that it was like braking trail on a powder day but luckily the snow was quite light allowing us to move reasonably fast. We made our way up toward the horn, a run that in the daytime goes right off the top gondola station at the hausberg. We made it just up to the point where the last serious rise started to happened and decided to turn around because Jeremy had work and still needed to take a shower and get some other stuff ready for his day.

Nice turns in anyones book



Just about to the knee

The first turns were just over my boot top and very light. I missed the effortlessness of the turns and really enjoyed each one as we made out way down the nice easy gradient. I haven't skied this good of snow in a long time and was just happy to make any turns at all considering the resort had only been open for 3 days and all of the days have been powder days. After making ten turns we decided to break out the camera just to make the friends jealous and to capture a great time.


Milking all the skiing we could out of the steeper base section we made nice short radius turns all the way to the groomers where we straight lined out and back to the cars that had both gained another two inches on their hoods. Overall this was the best Dawn Patrol I have ever done and so far this year definitely makes the top spot for fun days even though we really only got one run in the turns made it well worth it. Looking out the window right now to see it snowing more and more make me think we might have to do another Dawn Patrol tomorrow morning as well...stay posted!

Ski touring Ehrwald Alm

I got out today with the parents on a nice little tour of some sidecountry that hasn't been opened yet to the public and had a good time skiing some tracked out powder. Hopefully another video coming soon as it is dumping hard outside right now! I got a few shots with the gopro so here is one of the runs!
-Owen

Mittenwald bike ride

It was a beautiful weekend with clear skies so we decided to take a bike ride to Mittenwald as it might be the last warm weekend of the year (lets hope!) We got a later start because I had worked until 2:30 but still had a great half day of cycling. Here are some photos I took from the day.
-Owen

On the trail to Mittenwald

Lunch near the German mountain troops base

Heading home

Getting back into Garmisch 

Hintertux weekend

I got out this weekend to Hintertux because ski patrol is headed there so I just tagged along to hit up some early season park. Really lucky was the chance to meet up with some old friends Fabian and Felix from Munich that I haven't skied with in a long time but it looks like we will be seeing each other on the mountain a lot this winter skiing some park in Ehrwald between big storms and ski tours. A lot of pros were up this weekend because of some event in Innsbruck as well as freestyle.ch going on in Zurich so it was cool to seen Henrik Harlaut and a few other riding around enjoying the early season kickers that were perfectly shaped. Here is a picture of the park from this weekend.
-Owen

Climbing near Oberammergau

Just had a fun day climbing with Jeremy, Carina and the kids up near Oberammergau on some nice rock. I just got two pitches of climbing in when Carina and I headed up a two pitch route while Jeremy watched Imil. After that Jeremy got a pitch of climbing in and Jacob got a pitch on climbing in before we belayed Imil up a slab that he did surpassingly good on. After that we took off across some super marshy fields because Carina was looking for adventure. After two stream crossing we ended up wading in ankle deep water mixed with cow shit before we hopped a fence and waded through the wide river in the coldest water ever. Walking through the fields felt like Vietnam and for some reason the one that was hating it the most was Imil who was on the back of Jeremy. Here are some pictures.
-Owen

Jumping a creek, I got a little wet on this one!

Walking through a field 

Helicopter training for bergwacht

A bushwhack

Final river crossing

Summer kayaking edit!

This summer has been one of the best ones in my memory. I got into kayaking and now feel completely comfortable on class 3 whitewater and can roll up almost every time I flip which makes life a lot easier out on the river. I've met new friends that have helped me get out on the river at least 2 times during the week and almost every weekend. I had my go-pro on my helmet for a lot of the outing I went on so here's little glimpse of what I've been up to. Enjoy!
-Owen