The Kühtai dam. What do the Austrians not build in the Apls.
I almost forgot about this little line, from the last day of the old year. It was nice and sunny, lines could still be found, and with our Dutch friends we were off again in the morning to Kuhtai. I already wrote about this resort, from my last visit, but their were vast amounts of terrain, still to be checked. Originally I hadn’t planned to ride powder that they, but somehow took all of my equipment except for my powder skis along. That meant, I would be riding my old Salomon Foil for the day. Kind of nostalgic.
Places left to go remain in heaps 🙂
When we arrived there, I set out with Wolfgang, one of Gabi’s friends, to ride the dam above Kuhtai. I had been to the resort a couple of times now, but I really never considered, doing that. Because of the Dams angle, on the other days of my visit, it just seemed a little too risky. Since it was sunny day number three, and the avalanche danger levels as well as the report were going down to level II, it was worth a try. And we weren’t the first :P. Unfortunately, we were only able to do two runs before one of Wolfis old injuries started to act up. These things always seem to creep on you when ur having fun :S
Above the dam the sun was shinig 🙂
Wolfi getting ready for our descent.
But that wasn’t all for the day. Last year the resort hosted the youth Winter Olympics freestyle competitions. Therefore they had a nicely shaped superpipe. Some of you know, that I really love snow pipes, but honestly, said my skills riding them are crappy. So this presented a perfect opportunity, to improve them. In so I did. It was really fun running up and down the pipe for a few runs. I learned that I really need to work on my fitness to get enough strength into my feet to stomp more air.
The airbag and the Superpipe. So much fun 🙂
But that wasn’t all, because next to the pipe an airbag was set up, so finally I was able to try my cork five. My first run supposedly, according to my friends, didn’t look all that bad, what they didn’t see was the nice landing on my head after bouncing somewhat to side 😛 But it was all good fun. Unfortunately, our airbag action was cut short in the literal sense, when a snowboarder managed to break the bag with his board, yes I guess it can happen even with out shredding it with a Pistenbully…
