Haven’t touched a pair of touring
skies in close to eight years, but a load of people I know have been
saying how much fun it is. As it is more or less the equivalent of
mountain biking in winter I thought I should give it another try as I
have been biking for nearly five years now and I tend to get lazy and
fat in winter. Skiing doesn't have the same energy consumption as
most of the work is done by the lift.
Borrowed a touring set from a rental
shop in Pfronten and set of towards the Buron with Dad today. Up to
the mast on that mountain with a load of technical stuff in our
rucksacks next to tee and clothes. Going up from the bottom we
travelled along the piste nearly all the way. Weird, as normally I
would take touring skies to go as far away as possible from a piste.
Went up and had a first stop after a short amount of time to take
some clothes of. Carried on in the track of some tourers in front of
us and reached the un-pisted zone after a while. Met Marlene a short
ways before, a work colleague of dads having fun in the sunshine on
the ski piste. Going up the last stretch took us nearly as long as
all of the rest before, due to it being steeper and more powder snow.
We helped a man find his ski and got to the top after zigzagging our
way up. Had to shovel our way free to get to the electric hut of the
mast and whilst dad did all the electrical work inside I had tee and
watched the scenery.
We wanted to carry on up to the Blesse
after that, but we couldn't see a way to get there. So instead we
took our furs of and skied down the piste and back to the car through
deep snow. Really good quality equipment I got for that, was very
happy with them.
