Survivors :)

We survived our vacation. Apart from a rather crazy tour and an unexpected amount of broken equipment (one snowboard, one hight back/ a part of the binding, one jacket, a pants, and two leashes) the time had been great. I'm still trying to regain all my strength but it was worth it. Here are some pictures:

The spectacularly broken things

Scenery and other stuff

Can you spot the tiny cross in the upper right corner? That's where we walked to ;)

That's how you manage to walk in deep snow.

 That's the result of the procedure shown above

Never the less it still was a really great holiday. I'll be on the hunt for a new jacket and maybe a new helmet because I fell hard the last day. Although I like the week I'm more in the mood for summer now thus this will be probably the last entry about snowboarding for a while.

CU

Geocaching

Finally I have some time left to post the pictures from the trip to France where we did geocaching. Geocaching is hiking for the web 2.0 crowd. To make hiking more interesting to people who rather look at forests via google earth, the hiking part is woven into a game. The aim of it is to find the caches (little plastic boxes with small and more or less useful gifts). Caches are listed in an internet portal with their coordinates. To find one of them a forrest navigation system (GPS receiver), hiking shoes, good weather, and a strong will to find that plastic box is needed.

Here are some pictures of our high-tech hide and seek trip:

After I tried this type of hiking I'm still not convinced that hiking will be my favorite free time activity in future. I fear that the impression of hiking being a useless used timeperiod in which people practice an antiquated way of traveling, will stay imprinted into my brain for a while. Nonetheless I have to commit that it was fun.