Within the week, the weather forecasts were constantly changing, and the weekend was approaching. Amidst all the work, even on Friday, we weren’t completely sure where we would be going. Nejc had flown in from Brussels for a nice powder weekend. Determined, not to have it ruined, by sickness or bad weather. On Saturday morning Ziga, Vasja, Miha, Nejc and myself were off to Nassfeld. After checking all the forecasts, and even stopping in Kranjska Gora early in the morning, we figured, wed stick with our decision. We were also lucky to get a good price on the daily ticket :P.
When we arrived, the sun was shining, all looked nice, but after the first run, we were all very disappointed. Most of the easily accessible terrain had been ridden the day before, regardless of high avalanche danger. So we had to improvise. The reason I named this post in honor of the all renowned, and mostly familiar,SSX game franchise from electronic arts, is just because, after the day and editing the videos, it felt like we had played one of those games in real life. That’s why the edit is also kind of inspired by that. Check it out 🙂 And yes, I also added the stoke meter just for fun. :-).All shot and cut together from a GoPro3 BLACK now integrated into my post workflow perfectly 😛 Oh and I also have a new intro thnx to the high winds XD HD version is now online too ;).
Without going into too much detail, in short, we had to Wander off away from the pack for almost 45 min and climb the summit of the Kammleiten over the Kühwegger Törl to find the good terrain. I did get the hint, on this location, when I was checking the web page of the ski resort, and found a freeride section, with not much more than a promotional video. After paying close attention to the scenics of the shots used we had a rough estimate of where to look.
Of course we didn’t take into account, that we would have to stand in winds of up to 60-80 km/h, but hey, that just added to the excitement. Since the ascent was so long, and the weather was rapidly shifting to a southern föhn with heavy overcast and the winds were starting to exced the 80 mark, we were only able to do two runs, but it did pay off because in all the tracked resort apparently, we were the ones who found this untracked powder. I hardly believe, that this good terrain is not riden all too often, if the snow conditions allow it. I guess we were fortunate, because the avalanche danger level, the day before, was level IV and, with the long hike, that probably saved it for us to enjoy.
Nejc at the Summit of Kammleiten
Being happy and satisfied, with our run, we headed back home, with another stopover in Kranjska Gora, where we bumped into our friend and ski cross champion Filip Flisar, who was doing a nice little promotion for his sponsor BMW and its XDRIVE enabled vehicles. It was really nice to randomly bump into each other, not first and probably not the last time. Also I hear the driving was a lot of fun.
I also had to much time fun and adopted an SSX Wallpaper 😛
Without going into too much detail, in short, we had to Wander off away from the pack for almost 45 min and climb the summit of the Kammleiten over the Kühwegger Törl to find the good terrain. I did get the hint, on this location, when I was checking the web page of the ski resort, and found a freeride section, with not much more than a promotional video. After paying close attention to the scenics of the shots used we had a rough estimate of where to look.
Of course we didn’t take into account, that we would have to stand in winds of up to 60-80 km/h, but hey, that just added to the excitement. Since the ascent was so long, and the weather was rapidly shifting to a southern föhn with heavy overcast and the winds were starting to exced the 80 mark, we were only able to do two runs, but it did pay off because in all the tracked resort apparently, we were the ones who found this untracked powder. I hardly believe, that this good terrain is not riden all too often, if the snow conditions allow it. I guess we were fortunate, because the avalanche danger level, the day before, was level IV and, with the long hike, that probably saved it for us to enjoy.
