(beautiful view on the reservoir 'lake')
(mugl and I found the gayest beer helmets ever made and realized, that they are perfect for mixing jacky coke!)
the terrain is incredibly good and every year we swear to ourselves to come back here mid season to find all the rollers and windlips rideable. never happened though and so we were back for another 'spring classics', couple of weeks with the park shaped properly, lots of party, barbecue and hanging at the appartments. oh... getting some last shots for the next season of course :)
('the beer game' was funny for about an hour, before we realized, that we could drink
even without being forced by the game rules. alex, paying some debts)
the weather was surprisingly good the first couple of days (meaning bluebird and tee-conditions), the chairlift still rideable, which is one of the best arguments to come here: take the upper t-bar, cruise through the park, then take the long run down to the chairlift. sooo much fun!
(öfi and klaus, chilling on our balcony... that's the way you do it!)
this year, we returned to 'haus gfall' and had the big appartment there. alexandra and her husband - the landlords at gfall - are super mellow and have a sick appartment on the upper floor. its just a 200 meter walk to 'kiwi' and just a 50 meter walk to 'pfiffalm', two of the local bars and it has a 'milk station' right across the street where you can get fresh milk 24 hours. sweet, especially when coming home late from a party.
(the 'pfiffalm' is always fun, just 50 meters away from the appartment.
check out alex' sunburn on the middle frame!)
shootings went very well, did some stuff with the MOG crew with flo achenrainer, julia baumgartner, bobby dangl and wulle wanner the first day... they had prepared a nice rail feature near the dam, flo and julia killing it till the sun went down.
(the rail spot of the MOG crew... nice one!)
next day, i shot a 'stick-a-trick' with nicholas wolken. he did like 200 handplants and was pretty much done after that... thanks, fäst... it worked out super good!
the MOG crew had spotted a nice 'natural halfpipe' in some avalanche debris halfway down the valley, which we did on the third day. before, it was time to go up to shoot sani on the huge film/photo kicker on the glacier. he brought shitfaced maurer with him, who came home from the party at 6 am, so all he could do was roll around, cursing and having som not-so-amusing date with a guy called hangover... :) so funny to watch... sorry, mu ;)
(sani brought his very own 'mu' in the trunk, then nailed some nice sevens... thanks, bro!)
after sani nailed some decent front 7 and a super clean front 3 (yeah, dreamteam!), i went back down to the avalanche thing to shoot with the isencrew (fips, basti, alex) and flo achenrainer... the guys had already shaped two nice hits into the 'halfpipe' when i came there.
we were just about to get going when we heared some rocks tumbling above us and realized, that there must have been a big slide going on atop the mountain and everything was coming down through a small ravine towards us. we were super scared, it looked like a fucking hollywood movie, all the slush shooting through the ravine above us. all we could do was running sideways. surprisingly, the whole thing stopped literally inches away from our spot, so we could shoot the feature, still a little bit nervous that more could be coming down the hill.
(basti kuhn, hitting it... scary moments, when the 'lochfickende berg' came down...
see where the small pole is? that was the 'halfpipe spot'... the brownish debis is what the avy brought down...)
the next couple of days brought a lot of bad weather, so i decided to call it a day and have a 'normal' weekend at home (which was a good decision photowise, but i missed some good party i heared)...
(we tested some rubber gear (not what you think) for the shoot next week)
thanks, 'kauni'... we'll be back next week for some 'super duper mega last shots' for the boardtest :)
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