Skiing with Kerry and Branjo

Kerry and I headed up to Fellhorn for a day’s skiing/boarding. The snow was nice, the weather was nice and I felt speedy. At lunch time Branjo joined us and we headed over into Austria and back again. It was fantastic racing down the slopes accompanied by good company.

Kerry and board in the snow (Fellhorn, Germany) resize

Above: “Hello, I am Kerry. I like powder.”.

In the evening we went out for dinner with Branjo and Nils to Essenza the Italian restaurant across the road from the NTC shop at Nebelhorn. We spoke a mix of German and English with Nils and I acting as translators for Branjo and Kerry.

Eating at Essenza with Branjo, Nils, Cris and Kerry (Oberstdorf, Germany) resize

Above: Branjo, Nils, myself, and Kerry at Essenza.

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Pizza after work

Grit, Martin, Katharina, Branjo and I headed over to Grit’s after work and cooked pizza. The plan was to cook and spend a lazy evening together. It turns out Branjo is a closet pizza chef and he used our limited ingredients to produce three delicious pizzas. We drank red wine, ate pizza, and played a game of name the river, town, drink, etc. starting with x where x is a random letter from the alphabet. I was terrible. Perhaps I had too much red wine.

Martin and Branjo in the kitchen (Sonthofen, Germany) resize Martin chopping pizza (Sonthofen, Germany) resize Pizza chef working his magic (Sonthofen, Germany) resize

Above: The lads prepare pizza and serve it to the waiting hordes.

Pizza boys (Sonthofen, Germany) resize

The gang (Sonthofen, Germany) resize Branjo (Sonthofen, Germany) resize Smart Mart (Sonthofen, Germany) resize

Above left to right: Lasses in the kitchen (Martin excluded), Branjo takes a swig of his beer between swearing in Slovakian and thinking of rivers beginning with certain letters, Martin type smart.

Eating pizza at Grit's (Sonthofen, Germany) resize Eating pizza at Grit's 2 (Sonthofen, Germany) resize

Above: Us just before devouring of pizza. Below: Perhaps I drank too much red wine.

I may have drunk too much (Sonthofen, Germany) resize

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Ski Tour

I had the day off and went ski touring in the afternoon with Frauke. We headed out to Oberjoch and went touring up Wertacher Hörnle. I’d never been on touring skis before. The bindings are interesting and allow your heel to leave the ski as you walk/ski up the hill. Then at the top you remove the grippy skin from the ski, clip the boot into the ski and fall down, I mean ski down. I’m sure I looked quite amusing face planting regularly into the powder.

We went climbing at the gym in the evening with Frauke’s friends.

Cris up to his usual tricks (Oberjoch, Germany) resize Cris and Frauke (Oberjoch, Germany) resize

Above left: I couldn’t resist a short dance with the pole at the top of the mountain. Above right: Frauke and I at the top of Wertacher Hörnle. Well almost. Apparently this is the “winter gipfel” meaning what-we-call-the-top-when-it’s-snowy.

Frauke on skis (Oberjoch, Germany) resize Frauke and her friends at the wall (Oberstdorf, Germany) resize

Above left: Frauke on her skis about to lead me on a perilous journey through the dark dark forest. “The trees will catch you.”, she said with a smile. Above right: Frauke and her friends at the climbing wall.

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