Game On – Fieberbrunn, Austria

Competition Venue with Snow

I am so excited to be in Austria. It is a wonderful country. And Fieberbrunn is an awesome resort. The second stop of the women’s Freeride World Tour is set to go on Saturday. The venue is beautiful. It is approx. 600-700 meters long. The organizers of the competition have been great. They are extremely organized and inviting. It has been a pleasure to be here so far.

At first glance the competition face seems to be blanketed with tons of snow. All the competitors were able to traverse underneath the venue today and realized there are many rocks hiding right beneath the surface. Austria is known to get 7-8 meters of snow a year, but this year has been a little thin. Fieberbrun received 30 cm’s of snow a couple of days ago, but did not have much snow before hand. There is no base support the new snow. Up close the venue showed to be very rocky.

What out for the sharks!

Despite all of the rocks, the snow is very good. The girls will be riding first! Yahoo! I think many of the lines have only enough snow for a few riders. I drew bib 5 which is also good. There will only be four riders on the face before me and there should be plenty of snow in my line.

I have been going back and fourth on where to ski tomorrow: where is the best snow, what line will score the best, etc. In the end I have decided to choose a line based on the goals I set for myself this season. It is my goal to challenge myself and scare myself just a little at every competition. I have found two lines that will do just that. Now it is a matter of how I am feeling when I wake up in the morning.