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Home again from St.Stanton. Havn't been able to blog as much as I wanted. First that it was too much to do and second my phone USB charger didn't work as planned. Ah well home in one piece and no injuries this time. My knee hurts a bit though but that's after hard boarding and commotion at club Funkey Chicken. Price you have to pay for a great vacation!

...and more sun.....

It starts to be a bit annoying with all the sun and no snow. It's like 5-7 Celsius in the shade and the snow is shrinking a meter in a week. Everyone is lazy and just hangs around. The goggle tan has developed to perfection with "Laschen Klaschen" and hours in the slope over the park at "Rendl Beach". The only thing that intensifies during these conditions is the night life, when no one wants to ski anymore. The rumor tells that snow in on the way though. Saturday is the big day, the day before i go home.... I'll hope for the best that it will dump before that.

Snow and sun

Havent blogged for two days. Two days of different weather conditions. Day one, the 12th, yesterday, was snowy with 30cm of new light powder. Not so good sight but the new snow had mixed with the earlier older snow so it felt like more powder. We had pretty nice big drear for our selfs. Especially one steep ravine with feather light almost bottomless powder. I couldnt belive my senses. It was too good to be true for the first day!

There

Ah, its snowing beautifuly outside the futuristic train station in St Anton. Its always the same feeling to get to the destination in one piece. Looking forward to a shower and then get out in the village.

Delicious and Confusing

There was I. Hungry and tired. As I walked through the streets I found a delicious exitic place to eat in the dining district. The choice of tonight was döner with cous cous and a delicious soft drink of the brand of coca-cola. I finished the meal some block away with a extra fine card board cup of capochino at the exclusive caffe of Starbucks. My swiss made chronograph told of gently that the time was running out. I, as the time, run, to the main train station to catch my train. There, you see, the numbers was out of order. The train was of another constallation. Suddenly my ticket, my map of consensus, was no good for navigation. I was sacred, I now lacked control. I reached out and found a kind of souls. I found my home for the next two hours on the Kaiserin Elisabeth train to Innsbruck.

Not so bad

I have to say that I have to change my picture I had of Zurich. Its a pretty cosy town with nice old buildings and not to forget churches from the 12th century and erlier i think. Lots of exclusive stores, watches and delux cars everywhere. Time to eat. No time to listen to the concert in the church's crypt with a preppy guy in black turtleneck playing no metal plates hanging from the celing. Too much fine art and Chromata for me now. Feed me. I need something to eat.

Zurich city

My dear friend texted me and offered me a ride from the Stanton train station. So sweet of her! Honestly, I dont have big expectations of Zurich but Ill take a walk and have look what to find. Im not good at killing time I think...

Safe in Zurich

Just landed in a gray and riny Zurich. Let's see what to do for the next 4h till the train leavs the hauptbahnhof...

We have a lift off

So, after a forseen crash last night at 02:00 Im now on the way to the airport by bus.

T minus 0,5 day

Horrible day at work to get everything in order to run away for the two wonderful weeks in les Alps! I'm packing the last stuff right now, last minute of course... The plane takes off at 10:45 from Arlanda tomorrow morning. I always have a hard time to sleep the night before I go somewhere. I have learnt that it's no idea to go to bead early the night before. It always end up with that I just spin till very late before I turn in. Better to stay up and crash. I will be exhausted either way. The spinning part is no fun so I go for the crash strategy tonight...

Gugly layout

Gah! Added an image of my self. Ended up with an ugly layout. I think I have to live with that a day or two. It's really late and I have to get up early tomorrow. Ah well...

T minus 3 days

Nice! I mailed with my friend J I met last year in St. Anton. He is comming over to Stanton this weekend. His working in Zürich so his over pretty often. Im comming down at Saturday afternoon. The plan is to just dump my stuf and get some Jäger in our kitchen and then strait to Funky!

White death took him

I got information from my source in St. Anton that the Swedish 24 year old did not make it. Utterly sad. It has snowed allmost every week this season, she says.

T minus 5 days

Ah! It’s just 5 days left to this year’s ski adventure! Nice indeed. One thing that put some shade on this nice insight is a note in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet yesterday. A Swedish guy was trapped in an avalanche. According to my source at location the guy is 24 year old from Stockholm (as I). It happened at "Dörli", on the side of "Schöngraben" (beautiful grave in German). He was rescued by his friends but was without oxygen for 35 min. Sad and horrifying story. I hope he will get well and I think of his family and his friends. These kinds of things make me think of the dangers in the mountains. I bought this book to get the theoretical part of safety when you are free skiing. I know that you need more than that to be safe off-piste but it’s a start, to get the respect, if not more.