EBs -- North

So... what is this. It's mid March. It's new snow on the ground. It's blowing some kind of Nor Easter. It's below freezing. Pretty much all day until noon. Roads at least clear and mostly dry, a few isolated shaded spots with frost or black ice early in the morning.

First time EBs in 2013 for Py. Meeting some of the usuals at the starting location KK/Manorville.

Heading on the North route. Full speed ahead... splitting off fairly quickly with just a few riders. Going hard, and near the limit. Loosing the few riders at the tanks while going hard into the wind, regrouping later -- good. Wind battling echolon formation.

Non-stop passing the Deli to Py's misfortune -- missing his planned refueling option. About 1/2 way back catching to much wind at last position after briefly pulling and falling back... running little low on gas, but still big solo effort to finish.

Super cold head wind on the last part riding back home.

Finally, some ride worse posting - back to the old RP2IPBP-JP

Py was a little quite here lately. Simple as it was -- sick for two weeks, resting, starting slow finally on two wheels last week with a few miles and commuting to work.

Still darn cold here, snow again tonight -- winter seams never ending -- when is spring arriving? But good to get a decent mileage in this week and today. Having put away this FUGU jack before the winter vacation, and getting it back out these days -- uhhhg.

So last minute motivated by a friend putting on this ole RP2IPBP-JP ride for today. In the morning one rider down for some personal reasons... Waiting and hoping for a few others, eventually... circling around Tildas, slowly to stay a little warm -- always good to drop the average speed shown later by circles in the parking lot... but glad at least GIZ showed up.

Promptly with the clock tower bell leaving the lot towards Wading River happily surprised to see a team buddy rolling down the road and joining. So three lone figures rolling out East top see what there may be, it's a while...

Beyond by the winter broken up roads, nothing new. Coffee and warmup at Duffys. Heading back, cutting down speed a notch for G. May be a good thing to keep power down a bit today.

Good ride, thanks for getting out on the road today!

1st time Alpine Ski -- Grüsch Danusa

Let's try some thing new and still missing in Py's set if skills.

A day of Alpine ski experience. So far so good -- looks like the fun can start with a few more days!

Mini Tour, about 1/2 way up to Vilan

Looking for a little more endurance workout once in a while and a free no cost activity right out of the doorstep. Gearing up with a strapped on backpack snowboard big snowboard boots... no avalanche equipment nor a buddy -- so keeping it save and staying at the lower half of the mountain in safe terrain. Just a quick walk up pretty much following the gradient with big steep steps on some existing tracks. The ride down was very enjoyable but also way quick and short. However, good change of mode and not transportation needed today -- 1/2 day off, relaxing and shopping with friends.

Rothorn

One more different location to ride. Py has not visited the Rothorn (and related Weiss- and Schwarzhorn) peaks of Lenzerheide in a while. So he ventured there to ride 'em all.

Starting a little chilly on the early morning shaded slopes, little hard, "sandy" feeling, near icy at spots but almost empty that time, but already better with the next run and first ray's of sun hitting the surface! Making it all the way over to Schwarzhorn... checking out the FIS worldcup super slalom piste with some challenging super hard packed and super flat near icy hard steep... a slow down ending up a huge cloud of snowy dusting. A great place to ride and avoid traffic as this side does not provide any easy and only a very few medium level runs.

Scuol-Sent -- pow!!!

Next day, trying to escape a little further into the deep Engadin taking a scenic RhB train ride to Scuol-Tarasp. Lightly snowing, but mostly diffuse sunny. Nice, a lot of easy accessible off-piste safe often untracked pristine powder to dust up, repeating, finding new paths down almost all the way, awesome, finishing the day with the famous "Traumpiste" into the village Sent...  -- what a day!
Returning with the mountain taxi, bus and a little unfortunate delays missing the connection train -- so what, no on a hurry.

Klosters-Davos

Once a year once again returning to the big mountain for a good day of Snowboarding at Klosters-Davos, Parsenn. As usual  taking the big Luftseilbahn Gotschnergrat all the way up with one half way lay over. A few warmup runs on the Klosters mountain side on 4a/b... before heading over the Schiefer and finding a pretty good queue at the Gondola to the Weissfluh with connection to the very top to find his favorite run No 1. A great day up there -- so must many other have thought today. To higher up and steeper black runs were not crowded at all, just the intermediate runs and the way up there. Early lunch, good idea to get a good seating, but the hope for less traffic at noon was kind of false. However, about 15min extra delay... still not to bad looking at a 35..40min ride all the way up -- depending on the timing to catch the connection gondola to the peak Weissfluh! Finishing the day with a good set of long runs, adding the Parsenn slope before descending all the way down to Klosters train station.

Epic 4 hours of XC ski at SHS

Thanks to Nemo's huge dump of snow, excellent best ever snow conditions at SHS!