Tour de Kärnten – Stage 2– 40 km Time Trial
Stage 2 of the Tour de Kärnten. More sun. More cycling but luckily not too much today. At 9 am the ladies started and Leonie powered off around the lake.…
Tour de Kärnten 2016 – Stage 1–Wimitzbräu Runde
Leonie and I drove down early yesterday morning to the Ossiacher See in Kärnten Austria. We had entered the Tour de Kärnten. Actually we entered the race in 2014 but…
Imster Radmarathon 2016
It was a bit fresh in the morning but the weather was looking good. We got ready for a 7:30 am start in Imst. We being Leonie, Markus K., and…
Craig visits April 2016
Craig came to visit over the weekend. Above: Craig borrowed my touring skis. To get them into shape we polished them up using my undies. Perfect. On Saturday we drove…
Martin Busch Hütte – Day 3 Kreuzspitze
More fantastic weather. We left just before 8 am and headed up behind the hut towards a peak named Kreuzspitze. The snow had a hard crust as we ascended as Elmar cut the track in front of us. Soon we had other groups following us up from the hut.
It started steep and then flattened off before becoming steep again. Later, I started to worry that I wouldn’t be able to ski back down with the hard crust and the slope. Eventually the others made a ski depot and I waited by rocks a few metres below while they headed up to the summit and back down again.
It was an awesome view out across the mountains. Blue sky, no clouds, warm. I still wasn’t sure how I was going to ski back down though. It required a few sharp turns above a slope that ran out to what looked like a drop, then some traversing on the skis before another steep descent.