water becomes snow - a different surf experience

This is my first non-surfing-blog ever and the 100th too. Funny coincidence.  Due to some further vocational training I was able to go snowboarding again after a few years. The training took place in Austria and because it was October everybody was shipped up to 3200m ontop of the Hintertuxer Glacier in the Zilletal. Our Hotel was at an altitude of 1500m and it was still 12°C and warm compared to the freezing level at the top.

There were mostly skier in the hotel and just a handfull of snowboarder fighting to justify there passion. I caught a virus the week before the stuck with a heavy flu but went on the bus for 10 hours instead arriving in the Alps for the first time in about 3 years. I struggled to tie my shoes and especially my bindings at the top of the mountain, because the thin air caused a lot of troubles to breathe.

We were a funny group and work well together. Only our coach was pushing us pretty hard and we needed to sit in the snow and listened with a wet bottom very often during the day. But the view and weather was usually stunning as you can see. The nights were usually filled with drinking and card games. Well teachers usually get loose when in holiday. It was altogether a fun, but expensive week, but I needed to rest another one afterwards to fully regain my health. It will take a few years to go back to the snow again, because this winter it is going to Morocco. Looking forward after 10 years absence. See you there.