Ski Tour Europe 2010 - Chappelsiberg, Switzerland

Chappelsiberg! is this tiny community about a 30min drive from Seedorf where Steffy's Uncle owns and operates a small 4 person tram, which is more like a glorified metal basket, up to the sickest touring ever! The tram is used in the winter for backcountry skiing access for the public and the Swiss Alpine club also own a chalet a short skin from the top, in the summer it is used to bring up supplies for the farmers that graze cattle and make cheese in the high country. The best skiing I have ever done for $7 a day Yeah Switzerland. Steffy's family showed us around the day after a 30cm snow. It was a beautiful blue bird powder day that we started off with sumitting a peak called the Rossstock. Standing on top of this it appeared to just role off on all sides but in reality there were thousand foot cliffs all around except for the strip we came up. The skiing was the best powder we have skied the entire trip. It was so good that we borrowed a car the next day and went back to ski a different area up top and check out the super cool cloud inverstion that was down in the valley. What a great view from on top! If you can find list place then you can ski it!

Europe Ski Tour 2010 - Freeriding Disentis Switzerland

Holy Cow! we have been without inter-webs for a few weeks and I gots some catching up to do! So we went and stayed 2 nights in Disentis after make a day trip there the week before. The hostel we stayed in was super rad, it was ran by two Swedes about our age. We were able to ski a couple of cool lines that were literally a 10-15min skin from a T bar. Yeah sick side country ridge (see panorama picture). Its crazy, most places here they groom one way down from the top of the lift to the bottom and 98% of all the people stay on the "Piste" they wont even dip 10ft off the side to ski in untracked snow! So all the off Piste skiing here that is near a resort is actully, in US standards, within the resort! and no one skis it! Well check out these round of pic's from Desintis 3000 some fun 2000 meter descents were had as well from the alpine all the way down to the valley floor, super sick and definitely a leg burner

Ski Tour Europe 2010 - Andermatt, Switzerland

Once we woke up to rain in Chamonix and all of our gear was soaked we jumped on a train and arrived in Andermatt, Switzerland. The best part about arriving at night is that you get to be amazed by the huge mountains when you wake up in the morning. We have skied Andermatt two days in a row, it has spectacular freeride terrain and un-touched soft snow days maybe weeks after a significant snow fall. There is this Knife ridge, ass clinching traverse that we discovered which dumps you out either in a sweet powder bowl back down to the resort or you can take a right at the "Y" and ski a huge cirque and then down to a creek that leads back into the middle of town, probably about 4000-4500ft total descent. Andermatt is so, so Awesome it would be very easy to stay here and get lost from the rest of the world.