Christmas and New Years was a quiet time for Charly, and he deserved it as being on the road over past 3 months was more than hard work – Austria, Spain, Italy, France, Germany – over 20.000km overall. But as soon as the new year started he got very restless, wanting to get out again.
So after calling everybody we know from La Grave to East Austria to find out where the good snow is to make Charly´s first trip in 2010 worthwhile we decided to head to Pontresina to visit some former K2 team members, Martina (K2 Snowboarding Women Alliance) and Anselm (K2 tech rep) Tscharner in their new home up on the Bernina pass.
After skiing Diavolezza one day with good (but windpacked) snow we went ice climbing in the canyon right in the middle of town at night, had a great dinner with some beers in the evening and did another ice fall the next day, but only after sorting out a small detail – after realizing that Charly´s fuel (diesel) was frozen due to minus 25°C during the night we were not able to get the car running, so we only had 2 options: either doing it Russian style and amking a fire under the tank (to scetchy…) or waiting for the sun to rise high enough to warm up the car. We choose the latter and after some hours in´the sun we were able to get going. Good to know that some gas stations do not sell winter diesel when it´s cold…
Charly at the Diavolezza parking lot
Coming down the backside and taking a railway line back to the lift
gear chaos in the back
Pz Palü background
Ice climbing
home sweet (and warm) home
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