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Skiing the Alps with Heather

 



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The first thing Heather and I did upon arriving in Germany was to take the train south to visit her brother in Friedrichshafen. We spent three days skiing and two days just chilling. It was a fantastic vacation, I don't think I could ever go wrong with skiing in the Alps. Props to Heather's brother, Chris, for hosting us and escorting us. Also thanks to Chris for taking most of the pics, that is why I am in most of them for once.

The first day we went to a little place called Sonnenkopf, which means 'sun head.' Ironically it was anything but sunny, we literally couldn't see anything but white. We spent the most of the day slowly cruising to the base of the lift. We were able to hit some stashes of powder. Because we couldn't see anything, we didn't have anything to take pictures of.

The second day we went to a valley called Montafon and the Hill we visited was Hochjoch.


I wasn't the only one excited to go skiing. This is in front of Chris' apartment. His girlfriend is in the background.


The day we went to Hochjoch was a holiday so there were long lines everywhere. While waiting inline for the tram I was bored so I took another picture. That is Chris, Heather's brother. He is a great skier and I plan on skiing with him some more while I am here in Germany.


In American ski resorts there are nice lanes to keep everyone organized and to make sure no one waits in line longer than others. They don't have those in Europe, whoever pushes the hardest gets to the chair the quickest. Those fence things up on the hill are to prevent avalanches. They are probably 20 feet tall.


A view of the alps and a helicopter.


Hochjoch features a tunnel through part of the mountain.


Even though my mom doesn't like to hear it, I love to challenge myself when I ski.


I'm not sure if it is weird or beautiful when you are above the tree line.


We found some lifts with only good skiers on them. I'm a professional lift rider.


Another one of those typical 'Erik-and-Heather-posing-in-front-of-some-awesome-view-in-some-awesome-place' pictures.


The last day of our skiing day was at Arlberg. I think that is a cheese hut down there.

Before I show you the next photo, let me tell you a little about Arlberg. No matter how big you think it is, I promise you it is bigger. At typical ski day has about 12 long runs. At Arlberg it would take 6 days to ride every lift, and much longer to ski every run, and a life time to ski every line. Arlberg is a collection of mountains. And the cool thing is, the Alps are filled with resorts this size, or bigger.

Anyway, we spent the day exploring and skied on 4 different mountains.


Heather and Chris after stepping off one of the 9 gondolas.


Here is me in the middle of the longest run of my life. It was 3280 vertical feet tall. That is more vertical footage than 4 space needles stacked on top of each other.


Heather skied it too. She is a skiing champ.


In our Alp exploring adventure we had to fjord a stream.


Also in our skiing exploration alpine adventure, we spotted a mountain goat on a mountain.


Another Alp scene for your viewing pleasure. Most of those mountains there have lifts on them, all connected together and served by the same 30$ lift ticket. (I have a ton more Alp scenes on my hard drive if you care to see them)


On the way home on our last day there was a sunset like none other.

I plan on skiing the Alps many more times in the coming weeks, because of course, that is most of the reason why I moved to southern Germany.

MAX