European ski safari - Stuben
Today I finally managed to meet up with the legend himself, paedde. For those who don't know, paedde is a fixture of the australian ski forums who every year drives us crazy with his amazing photos of his worldwide ski safaris. For the record, paedde is actually Swiss. He kindly allowed us to join his merry band for a tour of the Stuben area, which is the next village along the road after St Christoph.
The temperature was a little warmer than yesterday, but as long as we stuck to the shaded areas the snow quality was still great. Thanks to paedde's knowledge, we still found plenty of fresh stuff!
The scenery out the back of Stuben. The photo with Paedde and Lorenz also has the slopes of Zurs visible in the top right.
Also part of the group was Mark102 (from the ski forums) along with Dave and Phil, two snowboarders from Tasmania.
Paedde setting off on a nice section to the skiers right of the Albona II chair.
After this we headed out to the far edge of the Stuben area. After a small traverse we found a nice wide-open powder field that still had some fresh lines.
Here is paedde setting off, followed by Lorenz.
All going well for Lorenz until he came unstuck crossing paedde's tracks and performed a great faceplant. Lorenz lost one ski just above his fall. Unfortunately for him, his other ski slid about 200 metres down the hill. It took him a while to get his stuff back together.
Mark102 enjoying some fresh lines.
Lorenz managed to dust himself off and still find the good stuff.
We decided to leave paedde's group just after lunchtime, partly because the party had become split up, and partly because I was knackered! I think my small case of man-flu from earlier in the week was returning. We returned to St Anton for some on-piste action but I was quite frankly, shattered, and ended up downloading early in the day.
Still, it was well worth it! Once again a big thanks to paedde for showing us around the Stuben area. Some really memorable skiing, for me at least.
The temperature was a little warmer than yesterday, but as long as we stuck to the shaded areas the snow quality was still great. Thanks to paedde's knowledge, we still found plenty of fresh stuff!
The scenery out the back of Stuben. The photo with Paedde and Lorenz also has the slopes of Zurs visible in the top right.
Also part of the group was Mark102 (from the ski forums) along with Dave and Phil, two snowboarders from Tasmania.
Paedde setting off on a nice section to the skiers right of the Albona II chair.
After this we headed out to the far edge of the Stuben area. After a small traverse we found a nice wide-open powder field that still had some fresh lines.
Here is paedde setting off, followed by Lorenz.
All going well for Lorenz until he came unstuck crossing paedde's tracks and performed a great faceplant. Lorenz lost one ski just above his fall. Unfortunately for him, his other ski slid about 200 metres down the hill. It took him a while to get his stuff back together.
Mark102 enjoying some fresh lines.
Lorenz managed to dust himself off and still find the good stuff.
We decided to leave paedde's group just after lunchtime, partly because the party had become split up, and partly because I was knackered! I think my small case of man-flu from earlier in the week was returning. We returned to St Anton for some on-piste action but I was quite frankly, shattered, and ended up downloading early in the day.
Still, it was well worth it! Once again a big thanks to paedde for showing us around the Stuben area. Some really memorable skiing, for me at least.
posted by PG at 11:15 PM
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