New Blog

Hello to all of our readers,

we decided to move our blog away from blogspot and host it on one of our servers. You can find it by going to alpinepics.com and click on blog, or directly going to www.alpinpics.com/wp. Of course you'll find a RSS feed there as well, so you won't miss a single post :-).
The reason why we moved? The pics we upload get post-processed by blogspot, removing some of the details (read sharpness...), leaving the pics look a bit "mushy"...

cheers,
Felix

Johannes in Garmisch

Well, it wasn't just Johannes.  Fabi, Max, Kev and Christoph also came along for the ride. Trails were sunny and dusty, and since they were so much fun we decided to do two tours:)

And another beautiful day in the mountains. This time we went a bit to high and hit quite some snow. I reeeeallllly like the squishy feeling when the shoes are getting soaking wet... But was worth it, as the trail down was perfectly dry most of the time. I quite like the contrast between snowy mountains and T-shirty weather. (But i still want to mention that i don't insist on the snow :-) ). In the pic Matze is enjoying a nice piece of trail....

Garmisch

Pic shows Fabi nose wheelying above Garmisch today with the Zugspitze in the background. Dry and dusty trails on the south sides, and a great trail to kick off the season with.

We had quite a hard time today to find an interesting trail with no snow! But due to some heavy scouting (thanks to Master Stone) we managed to score a perfect day. Barely any hikers and a perfectly dry trail. And those (friendly) hikers we met were quite surprised so see some bikers this early in spring. While carrying up, some wanted to know if this trail is in a Moser guide, as apparently they carried their bikes quite a lot while following some of the Moser trails ;-).
And one thing i can tell you for sure: it feels good to be on the bike again! And i don't care if people tell me the "Firn" is perfect right now :-).
For a change i took the D70s along today. It's amazing what you can do if you are able to sync the flashes up to 1/1000th of a second....
cheers, Felix

Tegernsee sunset

Wonderful sunset tonight. Had a Tegernsee evening ride and found some dry, snow free trails. Was great to be in the mountains riding a bike again:)

Isar trails

Pic shows Falk riding his shiny new Rock Mountain on the Isar trails. Light bursts stage left from one Nikon SB24, expertly hand held by Sebastian who is hiding behind the tree. As usual a walker strolls past at exactly the wrong moment, but Isar trails wouldn't be the same without the walkers, would they? ;-)