Searching for E'berg stoke/ Dear diary...

Been hangin around here for a while now. And DAYUM, the stoke is good here. Real good.

Infectious even.

Makes me very sad in the pants for not having a hot-shit crew like some here do. Or mountains nearby.... or snow... And realising that family obligations have probably put an end to this season for me :frown: :nonono2: :nonono2:

On the other hand. Maybe it's a good thing. Coz I think I'd be doing insane shit if I had the likes of some of you peeps shouting to chuck my lard-ass lowland swamp jong- carcass off some godforsaken cliff. (Wouldn't be huckin the likes of HA though, my brain would probably kick in before I got to the lip... :biggrin: )

Still though, it's a love/ hate relationship with TGR. And a goodun. Always leaving me wanting more.

Got a txt message today from Schnappi: "Garten = $$$". Fucker. Like I need to know shit like that while I'm behind my desk. Still though. The stoke, it flows.

Would've been really cool to meet up with a couple of ya in E'berg though. So post up the (Engelberg) stokage. Drive me craaazy... Now go git sum.

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Originally Posted by Tectonically_Neglected

Would've been really cool to meet up with a couple of ya in E'berg though. So post up the (Engelberg) stokage. Drive me craaazy... Now go git sum.

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Starting my journey tomorrow evening and will be enjoying my BD's on the slopes before mid-day Wednesday...

Oh, and if the weather is even remotely nice, I'll snap a few photos so it doesn't go like in Cham... I got about 3 maggot pics and that's it...

:nonono2: :nonono2: :nonono2: bad news looks like my chances to came are :nonono2: :nonono2: :frown:

Ask and you shall recieve...sorry no action shots, it didnt stop snowing the whole time I was there, so when things cleared out for a bit, I wasnt too keen on setting up pictures.

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Looking down from Bruni into town... a really fun descent and then you pick the bus back to the bruni or titlis base
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these two were shot one afternoon when the sun tried to come out for 20 minutes ago. Taken from the porch of the inn I stayed at.
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Pleased to provide...

I got back last night from very much a flying visit for the Euro mini. Arrived late on Friday night after a pretty much full day in the office. On the train up from Zurich airport, I got a call from Greg who had decided to head up for the day. We arranged to hook up. I had time for one warm-up run before I got the call from Greg so I headed over to the Trubsee lift station and met him there.

Visibility wasn't great but there was a bit of fresh snow (calling it powder would be too kind) so we headed over to Jochstock and did a few laps from there. I had looked at this area when I visited in December and the lift was closed and had certainly looked like it had potential. I hadn't realised quite how huge it is. You could spend days doing laps off there and never skiing the same line and each lap gives you about 900-1000m vertical. Very nice.

We then hooked up with a contact (never quite caught his name) of Greg's off a German ski forum. He was a local and agreed to show us a couple of lines. First we did the glacier under the Titlis Rotair cablecar taking a route which is good in bad visibility. This hugged the huge cliff face to skier's right of the glacier. We found some good snow but it was beginning to get quite wet lower down. Finally, Greg and I took the last Rotair up and did a run which went all the way to the valley floor - 2000m vertical. In good conditions, it is possible to do 1000m of this in a couloir. However, it was very warm and there would have been huge objective danger doing it this way so we took a different route to the side of the chute which descended by a series of big snowfields. As we got lower it got slushier and slushier so it ended up being a bit of a fight. But that run in good snow conditions would be hard to beat anywhere. This was all capped off when Greg's mate offered to pick us up from the end of the road - we had missed the last bus.

So props to Greg and his mate. Greg is a ripping skier and knows his mountain stuff. It was a real pleasure meeting him.

After all this action, we headed to the Yucutan and hooked up with Wildstyle and his crew and, after a bit of looking, Foggy Goggles and Hev.

Our plan to meet didn't quite work out after general disorganisation (on the Brits' part) and uncertainty as to what the time change would do to our planned meeting time. Still we managed to find Foggy Goggles and Hev later in the morning on a run off the Jochstock. They weren't hard to spot - even in a place like Engelberg, Foggy Goggle's hand painted Rossi Axioms stood out. It was very warm and most stuff at that level was really slushy. Fortunately, the sun had come out and there was good visibility so a run down the glacier seemed like a good idea. We had a blast tearing up open snow fields before taking on a couple of chutes. Unfortunately, I managed to give my knee a bit of a tweak on the second one (due to skiing like a pussy) so I called it a day then. I think Wildstyle managed to keep up with them for a couple more runs before the sheer GNAR got too much for him ;)

Despite a slightly low-key ending for me, it was a real pleasure meeting Hev, Foggy and their friend Jason - looking forward to hearing what else they get up to on this trip. They were scoping out a few interesting lines...:fm:

Oh and the physio says my knee is OK but that I should take it easy and stick to blue runs on my trip next weekend. I didn't tell her that I was going to La Grave :D

Did you guys ski the area of jochpass that is lookers right/under the chair while going up the 6pack? It dumps into that big boulder field and where the terrain park is. Didnt get a chance to poke around over there, but it looked absolutely killer.

had 1 run, and yes, it was killer. just so many possible lines.
i'm going back next year, make no mistake

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Originally Posted by Arno

had 1 run, and yes, it was killer. just so many possible lines.
i'm going back next year, make no mistake

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Nice. I was having too much fun tracking everything else out, that I never made a trip down that side.

And I'm definately going back next year. Hell, I'm trying to find a job in Lucern now...

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Originally Posted by CantDog

Nice. I was having too much fun tracking everything else out, that I never made a trip down that side.

And I'm definately going back next year. Hell, I'm trying to find a job in Lucern now...

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IF you happen to find two... gimme a call :)

Bizzump.

Requesting more E'berg info.

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Originally Posted by Tectonically_Neglected

Bizzump.

Requesting more E'berg info.

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More Euro-mini photos here:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=50067

Sadly no pics yet, will try to post something in the evening... But Mike I can tell you that wednesday was GOOOOOOOOD. Got to E'berg around 'ish and after some searching found the hostel and changed into skiing gear. Met with Wildstyle and his GF a bit after 11 and run a couple of nice laps on Jochpass-side... The snow was utterly crap, like 2 to 3 feet of dry uncut powder :fm:, actually we ended up doing more than a few laps on Jochpass-side, always slaying uncut pow. As the visibility was a bit iffy higher up, we only did one run on the Steinberg, but it was GOOOOD.

Thu was as good, but got to ski with them Scandihoolians... KANUTTEn got some attention with them DP 120's, and he really seemed to enjoy 'em, even though the snow was getting a bit soggy, not to mention it started raining.

Fri was better, though the snow was still moist lower down... And Sat had some good pow as well as corn :D. As and added bonus the annual Engelberg Music festival started on Friday, so the partying was good at Yucatan that evening...