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? ;-)

Winter biking

Spring is starting, I KNOW(!!!)... Nevertheless here's another vid with some winter biking. Vid was done by Chris from biking-hiking on the same day out i posted some pics of earlier. This was his first go at a video with his D90. Enjoy!

Spring riding

Here is a shot from the same weekend that Colin took another pic of the week over at the IBC Forum. Tine and i enjoyed a beautiful and quite ride. I think there were about 3 other people we met that day. And we didn't even have any contact with snow :-).

Lago trail flow

Pic shows Max flowing down a Lago trail last weekend. Dry trails and sunny weather seem to be a long way off in Bavaria right now...

Pedaliéro

Made front cover of number 18. Pic shows Max Schumann riding in Bavaria back in January. With the drop off to the right I can't believe how fast he took that bend, especially without spikes. Go and get the Mag, it's out now!

atmosphere

Sebastian beside the River Isar, Munich.

MTBRider 02/09

Announcement is a bit late but nevertheless: there were 2 pics of the awesome and legendary Nordpark Downhill 2008 in the previous MTB Rider issue 02/09 :-)

Salzburger land air time

Harald Philipp winter time riding close to Salzburg, Jan 09.

Apprentice bike mechanic...

Niall helping Papi with the bike servicing down in the cellar this afternoon.

Currently experimenting with Adobe Lightroom. I like it so far :-). Above is a picture which was basically an accident, a sideproduct of fooling around in LR :-). Dominik is enjoying some nice snow in Obergurgl.

Isar trails "road gap"

Max Schumann jumping the "road gap" on the Isar trails in January 09.

Chalet Jump

Matthias takes in some Chalet air time up at Kotalmjoch. Felix is hiding underneath/behind the shaded hump of snow taking fat shots with the fisheye...

Update Felix: And here is one of the fisheye shot from my hiding place. It is pretty much the same as the 3rd frame of Colin's shot...

Obergurgl

And here comes another skiing pic. I went out to Obergurgl with two of the piefke guys (more see here www.diewahnsinnigenpiefkes.at) to get some powder. The powder part didn't work out quite as good as expected, but the fun part did :-). At the end of the day we finally found a sweet chute and a good photo spot (Dominik ripping a nice line)

Same jump, different angle

Same jump, different angle. While Colin was using his extension :-) to get a pic of Matze above the lake, i was trying the opposite focal lens: fisheye..And here is a shot with my cheapo 200mm tele... I felt a bit inadequate next to Colin :-)