I will post more. Soon. I live in Flaurling now. We own a nice little house. With a climbing - shed. I like that. I am engaged. I like that, too.

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well, that took a while. john s made me feel bad about not blogging at all so now i will try to go forward with this a little more. actually a ton has happened since i last wrote. austria is treating lindsay, the puppies and me pretty well. my parents love the dogs! there could be more snow but hey, there could always be more snow, right? we were at the burton european open in laax last weekend. i took photos and burton will use some for their upcoming flyers and handouts i heard. that makes me feel good. of course in real life i don´t feel that great because of an obstructive bronchitis. however to see the bright side, it got me back on steroids which i do enjoy. and just at the right time. this weekend we go to kitzbühel where the skiing worldcup celebrates one of the most interesting races in the year. maybe i bring my camera to take photos so i can show you what that looks like. should be a good weekend! the weather is great and i am very much looking forward to some boarding and partying! i will tell about it soon. hope all you are doing just great! 406

here are some of the photos from sweathouse creek bouldering. corey just texted me, he found some more of those blocks! can't wait to get out there again!!!

sweathouse boulder sunday

saturday was strange. we got up really early to go climb with corey at loHo, so we were burnt out and back at the house by two in the afternoon. then we went to work for a little while, follwed by a trip to missoula, where after getting lots of necessary things done we met up with jesse (the mullet), ben and shaun for some whiskey and beer. after that we drove home and were back in time for lindsay to go on her girls night out. we got so much shit done, it was incredible. makes me wonder what would happen if we always did that... sunday i met up with corey , steph and two of their friends to develop a new bouldering area at the sweathouse creek near victor. we had a blast! soo much fun putting up new stuff and just finding the lines that appeal to you. I FAd a very nice short problem i called bare-naked ladies (climb it and you'll understand...). it is just a couple of moves, however on the FA three handholds broke. one hit me in the face right below the eye. then the 10inch topout-hold blew. now it looks a little different, some of the holds got worse, still very fun!!! i will post some photos soon!

so it happened

we all knew it would come. one day. that day was yesterday and it changed the face of the earth. well, I made that change the face of the earth part up, you probably noticed. still, it is different. lindsay and me went to boulder loHo after work yesterday and worked on a project we started a couple of weeks ago on the block just right of the classic hangover. a big dynamic first move leads into a crimpy, slightly downward traverse, then around a low corner and a finish via an endpoint move out of terrible crimpy pockets. so what happened? SHE GOT IT FIRST! very proud of her. now it's on!

weekend

it's getting close. this might be a kinda slow one, rain in the forecasts... well, might help my back heal. some more photos from arzl.

dogs

so the owners of the apartment I talked about earlier decided last minute not to accept our dogs. not a very good surprise and I think it is kind of unfair changing opinion the last possible moment. luckily my parents found us a new place quickly and singed the contract today! so now for real, we have a pace to stay in Austria. it is a little, like 10min on a bike, outside of Innsbruck, in a town called Arzl. the good news is that we have three bedrooms plus office and two balconies. So people who come visit can actually stay in their own room (or on their own balcony)! The photos shown the view to the south and north from the balconies...