Tiroler Land du bist so schön so schön.....

wer weiss wann Lisa wird dich sehen wieder sehen.

Dieses Wochenende organisierte Lisa, eine Freundin einen Tiroler Abend bei Ihr zu Hause. Gleichzeitig feierten wir ihren Abschied, da sie jetzt für mindestens sechs Monate nach Berlin ziehen wird. Es war voll lustig, wir sangen und tanzten... Manche feierten sogar bis in die frühen Morgensunden.

Last weekend, one of my friends Lisa organized a tirolian evening... At the same time it was a going away party for her, because she will be going to Berlin for at least six months. 
Have fun Lisa, and see you soon.

So ging es los. 

Lisa mit an Südtiroler Kochbuich und Kuchl outfit, alla zoag in die Deitschn wie man kocht ;-)

Die luschtige Runde.

Rolli do Stimmungsmocha... Loss aussa die Sau!!!!

Und wie i sing konn!!!

Tschatto und Ruth.... Looking good. 

Lisa und die Medls pan Liedl onschtim. 

Die Palmieri Briado im Einsatz.

Kathrin:  " Wos do gibs wos zi trinken? Ammo i sieg nichts!! " 

Lisa:  " Na schau Gelbo, des glab i do net "

Oanfoch a Hetz.

Super Feier!!!!

Lisa ich wünsche dir viel Spass in Berlin und ich bin mir sicher, dass du eine super Zeit haben wirst. 

Machs gut und bis bald. 
Liebe Grüsse,
Jeff

First days back on snow

A few days ago I went skiing again for the first time in over six months. It was a great feeling to be out on the glacier wearing my ski boots and skis.

The first two days I just took it easy and felt how everything was going. 

After that I started working with my old coach who knows me since I was young, therefore he also really knows what I need to work on to have a good come back  this season. 

So we started with low technical exercises.... snow plow, pole plant and easy sliding on the edges, real technical " drill " training.  This might sound strange to you, but you really have to start with the basic exercises if you want to change some technical stuff. I know this will help me for the coming season. 

Me and Lucia Recchia after my first turns on the glacier in Val Senales. (Italy)

Me in the front, our coach Hanjorg, and Lucy in the back. 

Looking down from the top of the glacier. 

I am loving it!!

My knee is feeling a lot better and I hope that I can soon start training in gates and working towards the coming winter.

All the best,

Jeff

Traveling to Italy.

After a great summer in Montreal,  I came to Italy last Saturday to get back on to snow and prepare myself for the oncoming winter.

The past few weeks I spent training in Montreal and organizing a surprise „PARTY“ for my girlfriend’s 30th birthday. It turned out to be a great evening. There were lots of friends that she had not seen for a long time, and she was really surprised. She hadn’t expected anything at all. After a great evening where  I met lots of Julie’s friends,  we went back home and I got ready to fly out the next day to Italy.

So I arrived here in Italy last Saturday and the next day, I went with my sister Isabelle,  her boyfriend Mike and my other sister’s boyfriend Matthias on a wonderful but very long bike tour around a mountain close to home, which is called Paitler Kofel. We biked for almost 4 hours and did over 1.380 m in altitude which was really cool.  Some parts were so steep that some of us had to push our bikes for a bit.

This is how the morning started. Matthias checking out the route on the maps.

This is the rode we came up on. Once we were above the tree line it was very steep. 

Me and my sister Isa almost at the top, waiting for the rest :-)

This was the steepest part of the tour, 

( you can not really tell on this picture, but trust me it WAS ) 

the last 5 min, before getting to the top. 

Matthias pushing his bike.

We made it!!!

Coolest shot of the day!! Mike getting ready for the downhill part.

Check out the view!!!

The nicest part of biking up the mountain so high is that you can 

enjoy the ride back down.

The scenery was gorgeous.

We made it!! Behind us the mountain 'Paitler Kofel'. We biked around 

the whole mountain group. You can not even see how far we went, 

the zoom of the camera was too small. HAHA....

I hope the next post will be about my first days back on snow. 

Talk to you soon.

Jeff