Leben Was Geht

This Day we went Speedflying to the Grosser Pyhrgas in Spital.
there was a lot of new snow above 1700metres of altitude.
at the first flight i had north westerly wind at about 40km/h.
at the second walk i met 2 nice mountaineering girls with running shoes walking the hofersteig in the snow from freistadt. big respekt!!
first i thought 2 times must be enough, but i got a sms from patrick they wanted to do a flight together with me. so i flew down to the Pyhrgassattel and hiked up with the other summitsurfers a 3rd time to the summit. oh you can imagine my tired tighs…
martin flew with his parachute to spital and patrick and me we flew with our speedglider the hasenbergrinne downwards as fast as possible 😉
what a great flight together.
so speedflying alone makes half as much fun and togehter is the ulitimate experience.
have fun together and enjoy your life.
bernhard

Hi extreme Cloud covered mountain seekers!
Yesterday Andi (Toagandi) and me we drove to Hopfing near Molln and hiked with our parachute equipment up to the Seehagelmauer for a sundown flight.
we needed 1:45 to the Feichtauhütte and then another 1:30 to the mountain top of the seehagelmauer.
there was a lot of fresh snow on the path.
the 2 feichtaulakes looked really great for swooping with the speedglider…
we reached the summit at 20:20. there was great light but also 50% of the mountains around were covered in clouds. shit.
so we hiked around and looked for more or less good starting place. with a speedglider a would habe been started for sure somewhere but with such a big paraglidewing you need a lof of space.
so we hiked downwards in a pebble gorge.
i took fortunately my gps with me so we were able to went back to the right way.
at 23:10 we reached totally exhausted and tired the car.
so the next time we have more time for launching our wings.
have a nice week
bernhard

Hi extreme winter addicted freaks.
Yesterday i hiked from hinterstoder above the brentnerkar to the kleiner hochkasten (2352m).
i had to carry my skiing equipment about 2hrs uphill.
at the hunting hut i had a discussion with a huntress. she said thats not a good idea to go there because of the chamois. but then she let me pass her 😉
then after the schoismauer i could walk with my skies up to the kleiner hochkasten.
at the mountain top i had a really good view. woww!
then i found a good starting place for my speed glider in a nice deep and steep channel.
the start was great and i had a great flight. the first flight is always a safety flight, but i will come again for sure 😉

This day i started at 5:30am with woif at hinterstoder and hiked up again to the kleiner hochkasten above the brentnerkar because of the good conditions.
we had a lot of fun hiking uphill. at the last third there was a big avalanche from the rocky Brandleck. uii we were lucky to passed this passage 5min before….
unfortunately the clouds got more and the wind too. so i started at the brentnerkar and had a great flight to the dietlalm.
thx for this special weekend 😉
cya on the mountains
bernhard

Hi extreme altitude difference collectors!
Yesterday Patrick and me we drove to Rauris for hiking up the Hocharn. What a nice fresh powder (about 15cm).

We reached the summit in a good time and then we started our speedrider the swing spitfire and flew downwards.
One time is not enough, so we hiked up a second time to the hocharn.
Patrick decided to go back because he felt some sunstroke.

The last 300m of altitude i had a poor visibility with only 5 to 10m. at the mountain top i built a horizontal place for sleeping and i jumped as soon as possible into the sleeping bag. brrrrr that was bloody cold(-14°C).
at 5:30 am this sunday i woke up ( i think i didn’t slept but who needs sleep?) and at 6:20 i had an amazing sunrise.
then i did a second speed ride downwards and after some breakfast patrick and me we did the third tour up to the…. whats the name of the mountain? yeah the hocharn.
All good things come in threes.
patrick gave up a second time because of too much sun and so i had to walk alone beside the other 300m mountaineers to the summit.
at 1pm a flew down with my speed glider.
and i didn’t thought to go a 4th time in a row to the summit.
so 3 times is enough i said.
thats 5100m of altidude difference.
have a nice regeneration week.
bernhard

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Hi extreme windy mountaineers!
This day i hiked in Spital / Pyhrn over the Hofalmhut to the Grosser Pyhrgas.
i mounted a breast bandage to intensify the training. so i had to breathe more often.
I had a really nice view to the other summits around but unfortunately there was too much wind(about 70km/h in the gusts) to start my speedflyer.
so i had to hike downwards.
but for me that was not a big problem!!
i wish you a great week.
cya on the mountains
bernhard

Hi extreme gravity seekers!
This day, Christopher, Marco an me we drove to Obertraun for Speedflying and Speedriding the krippenstein.
We had a great day with a lot of height for rolls and so on 😉
My fastest run was 2:40″ for 1600m of height.
Chris did with Marco an Tandem flight and over the Hallstättersee Chris jumped from the Tandem and pulled his base rig after 2 seconds of delay for the first time.
I could hear the loud crow over the entire lake ;))
thx for the great day!
cya on the mountains or in the air
bernhard

hi extreme foen addicted mountaineers!
this saturday summit surfer patrick and me we drove to hinterstoder for hiking up the kleiner priel (2136m) two times!
the first flight with the speed glider spitfire 11m² was really deep in the forest lane. great mountain view and nice southerly wind.
after a long break we hiked up a second time! the wind was stronger but we could start our speedglider easy. the second flight was very tubulent so we only did a safety flight.
you can imagine the cappuccino and the Malakoff tart tastes really great at the cafe gollner 😉
cya on the stormy lake
bernhard

Hi extreme sunny mountain lovers!
Yesterday the summitsurfer team patrick, bernhard and tom drove to werfenweng for a speedflying session at the bischling.
We flew a really great line and did 19 flights with our speedglider swing spitfire 11m².
our aim was to get deeper and deeper into the line…. look at the video and enjoy our day.
i can recommend this nice flight area in werfenweng!
there are nice friendly paragliding pilots and its an amazing mountain area!
thx for this really great day!
cya at the mountains
bernhard

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Hi extreme motivated weekenders!
after the grosser pyhrgas session on friday i hiked on the same day at 6:45pm in the night from hinterstoder to the prielschutzhaus in 2 hrs.
i slept alone in the winterroom of the prielschutzhaus
at 6:20am i started on saturday with the skies to the grosser priel. the sunrise was really great!!
this day i took the crampons with me so it was really easy to climb up the brotfallscharte ;).
after 2:50 hrs i stood at the grosser priel summit. what a great feeling!! at the ridge there was a lot of strong southerly wind. so i had to be careful because of the strong wind which could blow me away…
then i looked for the starting place for my speedglider.
at the grosser priel side pre summit there was too much wind from the side, so i went to the brotfall where i could start more or less easy….
the wind was really gusty but it was no problem to flew over the prielschutzhaus into the valley where i landed at my “big” landing zone at the creek.
thx for this grandiose tour on my favourite mountain.
cya in the mountains
bernhard

Hi extreme Afterwork mountaineers!
yesterday summit surfer patrick and me and christian we drove to spital and hiked up in 2:50hrs to the grosser pyhrgas without skies.
we had strong northerly wind and a great view around the summit.
patrick and me we flew the swing spitfire 11m² and christian flew the independence draco 16m².
thx for this great afternoon session on the best flight mountain in austria 😉
cya bernhard