Trip Reports Backcountry

European visit to Fritschi backcountry skiing binding factory, also cooking and food.

If you’re skiing in a Swiss whiteout you might as well enjoy a magnum of Toblerone. Amazing how fast you can inhale several pounds of chocolate. Seems we’re in a fairly major storm cycle here in Switzerland. Thus, anything above…

So, Fritz was nice enough to lend us his Skoda for a drive over to Switzerland to reach some higher ski touring (if the weather cooperates) and visit Lisa’s relatives in the town of Frutigen (where Fritschi happens to be…

It snowed fairly hard last night here in the Austrian valley of the River Inn, so we headed south to the Zillertal region and drove the steep windy road to Hochfugen, a ski resort complex where you’ll also find a…

Last week Lou was showing off his “modern” turns on Raspberry Peak. Capturing those turns on camera seemed to be his way of throwing the backcountry skiing gauntlet down.

For a tour closer to our home base in Bad Haering, Austria, we headed up the Marejtkopf south of the historic Alpbach village, skied west into a valley, then climbed to another summit and dropped to the drain leading down…