Hiked with alpacas today! 🦙🦙

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Back in the mountains above Achensee yesterday. We had to retreat from our route up Hochriss on account of so much a snow.

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Two days hiking with overnight at Hütte in the Kufsteinerland area.

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Schrecksee with friend.

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Since I go bouldering once a month or so every time my arms burn for half a week after.

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Back in the gym for the first time in a long time.

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Took the Giga Jel for a spin. Tried:
- Assisted lead belay
- Lowering climber from above via redirect belay
- Repelling in assisted mode with device attached directly to harness
Only thing left to try is belay from above in manual mode with device attached to anchor.

While slightly heavier then our Petzl Reversos I think it makes up for its weight with utility.

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Looking forward to trying my new belay device. Edelrid Giga Jul.

https://edelrid.com/de-en/sport/belay-devices/giga-jul

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Snowboarding at Ehrwald then cross country near Kaltenbrunn. We made challenging hilly route do to a Langlaufen competition in the valley. Acquired new bruises from trying to carve on cross country skis, 😅⛷. The fitness adventure in the mountains was worth it.

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First time back to Skiwelt since 2019.

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First off-piste snowboard turns of the season.

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Last day of my stay here at Hütte Höhenegg. Blog post with two ski tours and my first ever snowshoe tour to come.

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Continuing to log all my ski tours this year.

First one:
https://travisshears.com/blog/around-rauhkopf/

Thinking of breaking them out of the blog and turning them into something like my dive log. Or just a better way to integrate the maps with the photos. Also a search with a map would be nice to see where they all are in relation to each other.

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First day on the slopes this year was Nov 1st
At Hintertux
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Also we got lucky and saw some Chamois. First time for me. They are sort of a goat deer mix.

Photograph courtesy of my wife and her telephoto lens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamois

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Went for nice hike last weekend. Trying to get into shape for ski touring season and scope out some potential routes.

https://www.outdooractive.com/en/r/230141583?share=%7Ezrbpwrik%244ossqerz

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yov6FzlAuoQ

Cody Townson at it again this year with the fifty project.

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