Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Pitztal, HOLLAND (Netherlands...) / SOlden wannabe....

I forgot to add these pictures the other day, but on our photo-shoot day off, Mitch, MP and I decided it would be a GREAT idea to go biking in the snow storm to a little hut up on the hill for lunch....
 The lunch was good, we had pizza, drank coffee, and warmed our feet!
 BUT the way back was a nightmare... 
snow was blinding us, mud was flying EVERYWHERE and everything was soaked and coated in.... cow manure.  no joke, we were biking through the fields which had been recently splattered with the manure for fertilization I guess??? The whole valley stinks of it, and we did too.
 Gross.  A few seconds after this photo was taken I got into the shower fully clothed and spent about 30 minutes trying to get everything clean again....

After everything was freshly cleaned, we headed to Holland, which is a province in the Netherlands, where the Dutch live.  Tres confusing.
But even though we drove 8 hours to get here, I feel like I never left!! There are banners of Austrian mountains behind my bed....
There's "cows" outside my window....
AND, at the top of the hill there is a HUGE Solden banner...  So it seems like we came all the way from Solden to this indoor place that wishes it was Solden.... interesting... haha
BUT the skiing has been really good, we have a nice and ICY injected corridor, and we've been getting tons of volume with 2 sessions a day!
Everything is in one building here, the hotel, the gym, the restaurant and the ski hill...
they even have a mid lodge!! 
And if you get cold, because it's pretty freezing inside the ski area, you can just sneak out the door and breathe some fresh, warm, Holland air!!
That's me secretly sneaking out....
Natural light is rare....
But greatly appreciated! Trying to catch up on some vitamin D.
Anyway that's all for now... Tomorrow we have a 6:30AM training session and then back to SOLDEN! 
but the real question is.... did we ever leave????
da da daaaaaaa
ha ha ok just joking the air here is making me crazy.

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