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!

Uri Switzerland

After getting kicked out of the hostel in Disentis cause of some minor confusion and overbooking we called up our new friend Steffy and Mattias in Seedorf, a small town at the southern end of Lake Luzern. They picked us up at the train station when we arrive around 9pm, bussed us to their house and then walked over to Steffy's parents house for big trays of sliced meat, cheese and wine. It is nice to be in a family atmosphere after traveling on your own. We spent about a week with Steffy, Mattias and their two little cats "Jamie & Bella" in their flat in Seedorf hanging out driving around a Skoda Stationwagen seeing some sites and learning that Switzerland roots are in the Lake Luzern area, good old William Tell saved the world and started the country in the late 13th century. The weather was not that great for a couple days so we went for a walk and drive, as well as checking out the nearby town of Altdorf, Uri. Here are a couple pictures to get an idea of the area, with clouds, ha! The castle was built in the 1200's complete with a wall garden and surrounding mote, pretty sick it is now a very fancy restaurant. The tower is a monument to William Tell in downtown Altdorf.
Cheers!

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