Gruss aus Braunwald, Kessler Factory
Since I was in Switzerland I figured I should check out who has been making my boards for the last three years. This town is a little different than you ordinary Swiss Village. This requires you to take a 5 minute train up to the village, where there are no cars, they do however have three horses to get around. This was the simplest way of life I have every witnessed in Europe.... Read More
LAST WITCH OF SWITZERLAND, SAVE ANNA GOLDI
This was the house of Anna Goldi in Mollis, who was accused of being a witch, and was later beheaded and burned and the stake. Just recently Switzerland is pardoning her….a little late but check out her story. It is a classic, she has an affair with a high up man in the village and his way of dealing with it is to call her a witch, and get her out of his hair. She was then... Read More
Yesterday CHUR and today RAPPERSWIL
After a rough ride down in the car, and getting a little sick I was able to rally and race for the GOLD. The carts go a little faster in Switzerland and the rules…well…they are not as strict. Little stroll around Rapperswil today. More Castles. Read More
FINISHED
Just finished the competitive season, last stop was in Arosa, Switzerland. I finished 7th in the first race and 2nd in the next one. This made me 3rd overall in the World Cup standings. Now I will be staying in Switzerland a couple more days to go to the Kessler factory and work on new shapes for my race decks. Read More
Italy to Switzerland
This was the route that we went, normally we would take the highway, but we wanted to take in the beautiful scenery. This drive was about 4 hours. This was a road in the valley were all you could see around you was mountains (you think this road every closes due to avalanche, ha ha). There were a lot of people that would park and hike up to get fresh powder runs, only thing that... Read More
EXPLORE
City of Sondrio, Italy, lots of history dating back to the 1300′s Read More
Day Off
So today was really mellow. I had time to stroll around Valmalenco, not really anything to do but there are some great building and old churches. Like the one pictured above. This was the church supposedly where the Virgin Mary was sighted by several villagers. So they named the church after her. I felt weird trying to take pictures while I was inside, I didn’t think it was... Read More
RACE DAY FINALS
The SUN was out today!!!! I had a lot of fun racing today, also give a congrats to Jonathan Cheever and Nate Holland. GO TEAM USA, owning 50% of the world cup podium again. Read More
Time Trials
Today was qualifiers in Valmalenco, Italy. The weather was snow/rainy mix, and that made it very difficult for the course workers to clear it off. As a result there was a delay and we did not race until 2:45. That being said, thank you to all the course workers that put in so much work to make our race still go on. Oh and I won time trials today. Read More
