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After a fantastic first summer working with Franklin River Rafting it was time to move to the Northern Hemisphere.

Every year we spend some quality time in Grins Austria, to regain energy for our Norwegian summer

at Sjoa Rafting.

Beautiful view over Landeck and its stunning mountain peaks

We enjoy wholesome homemade bread that my father bakes, fine cheese from the Swiss Alps and probably some of the best beer in the world from Bavaria.

This spring we were lucky enough that due to good snow conditions several ski resorts were still open.  Our work means that we are generally living a endless summer so it was great to get a chance to go skiing, something that a girl from Tirol misses dearly.
We chose to go to Ischgl which is just a few minutes drive from where we stayed.

That night we got a message from Timmy and Christina who are part of  Cradle Mountain Canyons  . They were in the area and keen to join us for some days of skiing.

Timmy & Christina

The weather was stunning, the snow conditions just amazing and since it was the end of the season we had the slopes for ourselves.

What a great harmonising color scheme ! 

Sporting the mighty Flip Flops is Timmy T, today was to be his second day ever on skis.
He was charging all day with no major stacks.
Christina has been skiing since she is 3 years old and was an excellent teacher for Timmy.



We spend all morning discovering the area around Ischgl. It is one of the biggest interconnected Ski areas in Tirol. A village with 1500 souls,  238km of very well prepared  pistes, 43 state-of-the-art cable cars and lifts and 1100 snow machines.  One of the most popular winter hot spots in Austria.

Lunch time at 2600m with views reaching all the way to Italy

We kept on playing all afternoon until our legs were sore and our faces sun burnt.
On our way down to the car we passed the biggest open-air arena in the snow, the Idalp.
Deep Purple were set to hit the stage only a couple of days later.

Elias and Franzi

Snow Circus

We all had a amazing day and we finished it with some cold beer and a schnitzel or two.

Franzi