Skitour to Heustock Mountain, Switzerland

Pictures taken on December 24th, 2005

Heustock Mountain is a skitouring peak in a lonely valley in the Glarner Alpen. Beautiful view from about half way up.

This is in front of the Skihütte Mülibach. We rushed up the first 900m (3000ft) of elevation gain in just 85 minutes.

After a short break on the sunny front porch of the hut, my dad gets ready for the second half of the climb.

Chris climbing a ridge on foot. The village where we started is visible in the background, 1700m (5700ft) below us.

With the summit of Heustock Mountain already nearby, André does the last part on skis again.

The view from the summit at 2471m (8100ft) to the impressively steep Bützistock. Two of us are down at the ski depot.

Loecky loves paragliding. But also skitouring! Right now, he's sunbathing on the summit cairn.

The rest of the crew on the summit. From the left: Chris, Sepp, Reto and Marcel.

Prepare for some action in fresh powder snow. This is Chris, going full speed and doing a cornice drop.

An he is moving on, on that very nice virgin slope.

Now it's my turn with skiing. Excellent conditions here, yeeehaaa!

I found the perfect rhythm and did 112 turns in a row. It makes the heart pumping and the mind extremly happy. Guess (our count) which trace is mine! This is also a view back to the summit, from about 500hm (1700ft of elevation) below.

Still very nice terrain lower down. And down there, there is something that we could maybe drop down from...

Yup, as all of us, also André goes off the roof. See the movie (10s, 3.84mb) of Chris doing it.

Another view of André while he's airborne.

Sunbathing in very nice temperatures in front of the Skihütte. The crew: Chris, my dad Sepp, Reto and André.