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xAlps 2011 Presentation with Andy Froetscher (Italy) and Max & Penny (Canada)...
Thanks for everyone of who could make it for the presentation. I got told there where about 160 people in the room and it seamed no one was bored with our plus 2 hour presentation. Andy and I had a ton...
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Another fantastic xAlps presentation!
Another fantastic xAlps presentation! Thank you Cenovus Energy Financial department for inviting us to speak at your event. It was a privilege to be a part of it, and we even learned something about...
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Fall flying in the Rockies and in Europe
Fall is one of my favorite flying seasons. This is the time of the year to give lessons as the conditions are mellow and way more relaxed then during the spring and summer season and great for “hike...
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Nova Junior xAlps workshop and Nova Pilot meet
Steve Nash and myself were holding a xAlps workshop for “Nova Junior Pilots” to give them some insights of the xAlps. First we planned to head to Chamonix to “hike & fly” from Mont Blanc south...
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2013 RedBull xAlps
Penny and I are very proud to represent Canada and feel honored to be accepted in the race with this amazing select group of Athletes/Pilots (click here to see the list of athletes) We are...
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Wonder why we are participating in the xAlps again, for the 4th time?
This question is very often asked to us, and my answer, in short, is “we have not learnt how to do it right yet and therefore we have to do it again!”. Well, that is one answer, but not quite true. We...
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2013 www.RedBullxAlps.com route released
I had the pleasure to be in Salzburg at Hangar 7 for the 2013 www.RedBullxAlps.com official route release. Wow, 1031 km as the crow flies and going across a lot of very high alpine terrain. No doubt...
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How important is a team?
1031 km, as the crow flies, is the distance of the 2013 route of the xAlps. This is a lot of terrain to cover and hard to navigate by foot. Many people question how would one conquer this task, and...
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Arriving in Germany to get started
I arrived in Germany June 6th and everything is coming along very well. Thanks to my brother Dieter to pick me up from the airport and the tour in Munich and my brother Uli to arrange a car from...
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We are on our way to check out the xAlps route
Today I picked up Dave from Munich. First things first and Dave made sure not to be hungry for today. Now we can start with scouting out the xAlps route in person (not just Google Earth) and get...
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1st day on the route – Wildkogel
The weather forecast was for no rain and low cloud base. My wing (Mentor3 light) will be delayed for one more week, my harness from Supair and a SD card from Brauninger should arrive on Thursday at...
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Turnpoint Zugspitze (Germany)
What a fantastic day. Dave and I started the day with a 1500 meter hike up to the Stanser Joch. This site overlooks Achensee and down the main Inntal valley. Once we got up (1:00pm) we watched...
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My new harness and on the way to Sulden.
Today my harness from SupAir arrived at Nova, It was also a rain day and perfect day to adjust and set up the new harness. Wow, only 1.5 kg and this for a large harness. After this we headed to the...
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Checking out turn point Sulden today
Today we checked out the turn point Sulden. We explored the option in how we could fly out from there and shortly after we started to hike up Piz Chavalatsch. Dave flew from there back to the car and...
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Hiking from Davos to Chur
Today we hiked from Davos up to the Strela Pass and once we got up there we could feel the Foehn (Chinook) blowing in. To bad as it would have been great to fly around the famous Davos area or fly to...
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Flying in Flims and heading to Interlaken
Floehn in Flims, just as the weather forecast stated. Dave and I still decided to hike up to Naraus to check out the area. Once we got up, we were able to sneak in a flight to get back down to Flims....
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Interlaken to Chamonix
Once we got to Interlaken, we could not believe how many tandem flights are happening there. I heard they have about 8 tandem companies with about 10 tandem pilots each. This town is insane with...
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From Chamonix to St. Hilare and heading south
Big thunder and heavy rain woke us up in Chamonix. At least we got a good thunder concert as we could do nothing else around Mt. Blanc. We contacted Clement and Bruno (from Supair) if we could come...
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St. Hilare – heading south – and getting the Mentor 3 light
Before we got to St. Hilare, we stopped at Silvain’s (French Nova rep.) to get the Mentor 3 light…. no luck and it should come by Monday. So we drove to St. Hilare and prepared our self’s to go hike...
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A day at Chamonix
The weather forecast was good for today and we decided to stay and fly at Chamonix. We got up early in the morning and hiked up to the mid station of Mt. Brevent (south side of Chamonix). When we got...
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