Tyrol, October 2009: Welcome Winter
About one week ago winter has arrived in the Austrian Alps with a big bang. Within a few days more than 1 meter of fresh snow fell upon the glaciers. Now the winter season is officially opened up. Snowboarders, freeskiers, mountain-lovers and tourists alike swarmed into the glacier resorts - there were happy faces to be seen all over the place. Here are some impressions from the last days in the mountains. It was so much fun!
Les Ettes Teamrider Lisa Filzmoser, Julia Baumgartner and their friend Bene von Ulm zu Ehrbach are enjoying a great day in Hintertux…
… and so do Les Ettes Teamrider Conny Bleicher and snowboard shooting star Sarka Pancochova
Great weather, great park, great weekend - Moreboards Stubai Zoo opening - October 24th, 2009
Nina Wendt (Les Ettes friend) & Aline Bock (Germany’s next Freeride Queen)
Riders, riders, riders: Nina Eibel (O’Neill) and crew
Benno Bauer (snowboarder, Innsbruck), Paul ‘shred’ Senoner (snowboarder, Innsbruck), Brit (designer, Mellow constructions)
The big snowfall
Almost nothing can beat the beauty of the Alps
Les Ettes Teamrider Lisa Filzmoser, Julia Baumgartner and their friend Bene von Ulm zu Ehrbach are enjoying a great day in Hintertux…
… and so do Les Ettes Teamrider Conny Bleicher and snowboard shooting star Sarka Pancochova
Spanish Les Ettes Teamrider Beth Climent spends her preseason in Austria too and is loving it
Great weather, great park, great weekend - Moreboards Stubai Zoo opening - October 24th, 2009
Nina Wendt (Les Ettes friend) & Aline Bock (Germany’s next Freeride Queen)
Riders, riders, riders: Nina Eibel (O’Neill) and crew
Benno Bauer (snowboarder, Innsbruck), Paul ‘shred’ Senoner (snowboarder, Innsbruck), Brit (designer, Mellow constructions)
It is still summer in Austria - that's why we think it is still ok to blog more summer photos...
Les Ettes snowboarder Hanka from Czech Republic went surfing for the first time - and obviously had a blast trying it!
Norwegian Les Ettes Teamrider Thea Stenshagen has great news!
Saas Fee September
Hello everybody! I’ve just gotten home after a week in Saas Fee, Switzerland. And I can tell you that my season finally has started again. I was there with the B-National team and we had an absolute fantastic week. The park was hard and icy in the mornings, but that just gave me some time in the pipe. I must say that there’s a lot of the technical stuff I have forgotten in the pipe, but we had coaches there to give us some clues, and I felt my riding getting better every day.
Earlier in the week some of the boys had walked up to a place called Michabel Hutte, a cabin almost at the top of one of the mountains at an altitude of 3360 meter above sea level. They said it was sooooo exhausting. We just had to try it for ourselves. So Cecilia Larsen, Maria Jones and I started off. The boys were right, sooo exhausting, but we got to the top and we managed to get down again just before it got dark. We were so proud of ourselves. I’ve also attached a photo that proves that we were on the top.. haha.
And I got some really good news when I got home: I’m finally going to get my first add, yeah. It’s in the next edition of the Norwegian magazine Fri Flyt.
We had the Fri Flyt Awards party this weekend. I was nominated for “Best female snowboarder of the year”. I didn’t win, not surprising. - hehe. I was nominated along with Kjersti Buaas, Lisa Wiik and Helene Olafsen.. Helene won, congratulations!
Take care
Thea
Austrian Les Ettes teamrider Vani Waldenhofer reports from Val Senales
Trip to the Gentlemen Riders Park in Val Senales
Just right after the Dachstein Park-Closing, some shredheads from Blue Tomato – Franki, Alex, Jürgen, Tanja and myself - decided to start a short trip to the beautiful Val Senales / South Tirol. The Gentlemen Riders built a really cool park up there and they managed a great stay for our crew (Grazie for that!!). On the first day we wanted to start everything easy, when we realized that the park already closes at 1:00 p.m. every day, so we decided to get up even more early on the next days and try to get some shots done in the mornings.
Well it’s always the same, when you are motivated the most, the weather will pretty sure fuck everything up! The rain in the night and some fog on the mountain on the next day, made us to kick the shooting plans and we had another easy riding day. On the afternoon we started a trip to Meran, probably one of the most beautiful cities in South Tirol. On the next 2 days the weather was pretty cool and even the snow was not too slushy, so we even managed to get some shots back home to Schladming. Besides the shred, we enjoyed a great season-end party with the Gentlemen Riders! Well, for sure we will be up to come to Val Senales next year again! It was a great time!
