high wind fun vs. low wind fun

hell yeah.. .we picked up practising on the backloop again. already works pretty good. its a bit hard to get the hight though...

sorry for lagging with posts recently... after coming home from whistler, i only had a few days at home, before i packed my bags again for karpathos. vacation finally! as we have all of our gear in greece anyway, it was an easy task this time. another reason for my absence from the computer was the incredible good wind conditions in the past 2 weeks with an average of 30 knots and peaks of over 40 knots. we didn't have a single day with sail sizes bigger than 4.7... :D

my favourite angle for the gopro this season... i wish, the quality would be better for stills though...

flying high over andy.. bit my ass, when i saw that frame and realized, that the background was all blurry... i'd love to have this one with 20mpx... 

duckjibe in the shallow waters in front of the mainstation... with the mast mount, you can finally see all the colours...

airjibe at 40 knots... feels ALOT different, almost as if you had no sail at all... until the next gust hits!

best day for sure was last friday, when we were able to sail the smallest sails (3.5). meltemi was hauling ass, still not as gusty as usual, so we could practise a bit on the backloop.

nerd of the day I was (you could not possibly think that i was wearing this cap on purpose...). the sunbed setup was good for like 10 minutes...

meanwhile (and thanks to the bad weather back home in middle europe), mr. meltemi stopped its work and is taking a break for 2 or 3 days... though we were more than satisfied the last 10 days, we were bored after the first couple of hours without wind. to avoid a good, solid buzz already in the morning hours, we had to get creative and took a sunbed, mounted a mastfoot on it and put some airbeds below. worked better, than expected, yet needs some modifications. with 2 more low wind days ahead of us, i'm pretty sure, we'll get some good ideas for that :)

to be honest, in this pictures, the airbeds below are already missing... wanted to have that 'naked' shot though as it looks way more spectacular this way :D

eurotrash, glowsticks and vodka cranberries...

after a couple of days of successful shooting it was about time for another great party at garfs... eurotrash was on and as i missed this party last year, it was about time for me to enter the world of glowsticks, eurotrash and vodka cranberries...

warmed up a bit at sushi village and had a great dinner there, went to garfs straight. the whole place was coverd with zillions of glowsticks and heavy eurotrash pumping from the speakers. we had some hard times, using all the drinking tickets that fabia gave us, somehow managed to get rid of them :)

thanks, fabia & COC for another brilliant party... thanks for the headache :)

bears... beers... baers...?

one of the best things here in whistler is the wildlife, especially the furry, cuddly buddies in the woods. since we came here, we saw bears every single day. sometimes even three or four of them, especially on the first chair on our daily way up to the glacier... 

one day, i came across two one-year olds ('cubs') on my daily jogging round at 5 a.m... i was a bit scared at first but i remembered, that there has never been a bear-attach in the whistler area ever. the two little buddies were scared a bit too, but then decided to give a shit and kept on chewing grass right besides the path.

a day off - vancouver

(granville street is a pedestrian zone since the olympics... lots of street artists and bands playing all the time... 

we took the opportunity to shoot some nice group portraits...)

being pretty unlucky with the weather so far, we decided to have a break today and go to vancouver for some shopping... way better, than to wait the whole day through for better weather and sit in the crib doing nothing but hanging, eating and checking facebook every minute...

(starting from our crib late morning, we passed by mcdonalds in squampton... 

peter made sure, not to spill any food on his outfit and the car... thanks, pete!)

compared to whistler, the weather was quite good in downtown vancan and we did the usual tour along robson street... urban outfitters, nike store, levis store and of course the apple store in pacific centre.

(wögna and swöbi, doing some arm-wrestling on granville...)

(we have no idea, what these guys were up to... free salmon for everybody? 

mugl didn't care and checked out some new sony 3d glasses... classy!)

(these shots are for sale, as we somehow need to refund the nice parking ticked we got - 

for parking on a corporate parking lot on a sunday afternoon)

mugl wanted to stop by at the seaside, so we had a small break (and expensive) stop at coal harbour... we stayed there for maybe 10 minutes, been just like 50 meters away from the car, still managed to get a parking ticket of 40 bucks... the guy must have sneaked upon our car right behind our backs... fucker!


a nice day all in all... big hopes for the upcoming days, better weather is about due!

prom night portraits

(dominik and swöbi)

after the first couple of days here at whistler and the usual life, it was about time for the first big camp party at garfs... 'prom night', so we had to look for some vintage stuff to dress up. we went to function junction, some miles before whistler to a secondhand store and got ourselves some outfits. with prices between 5 and 12 bucks, we saved alot for the drinks later on... :)

(mugl, the crew and öfi)

the dress-up was already hillarious and as i still had to do portraits with dominik wagner for his youngblood, it was obvious, that we'd do the portraits in his prom night outfit.

(heisä, basti and myself)

the party once again rocked (thanks for the tickets, fabia!)... 
its perfect that we can sleep long today, as thursday is always the day off at the camp, plus its canada day, so we gonna cruise down to vancouver today for some shopping...