Maybe you have heard of Zeus and his buddies living way up in the mountains of the Olympos Oros? In fact, the ancient Greeks believed that this impressive mountain range in the northeast of Greece was home of the 12 ancient …
snowboarding
Every Monday Morning – Greek Powder and Sunsets.
The patience totally paid off and Kalavryta honored us with two bluebird days. We took our splitboards and went off to the backcountry for some nice lines and stunning sunsets.…
Surfing and snowboarding the same day: we almost did it in Greece.
I’ve been dreaming of it for quite a while and yet it never happened: surfing and snowboarding the same day.
Last week we came pretty close. A nice swell was lighting up the west coast the day we arrived and the snow …
Every Monday Morning – A Great Greek Adventure: Climate Refugees
I used to go to Greece for summer holidays when I was a little boy. Never could I imagine I will come back to this beautiful country by campervan, with snowboards and surfboards loaded. Greece has it all and as …
How to survive -15°C in a 25$ tent.
After last year’s bivi-experience I decided to buy a tent I can use during the winter season as well. The nice guy at the shop told me that I would really need a four season tent which means $ 1’000.– …
Snownight and Fondue with friends.
Back in the days, we used to go to Atzmännig for the snownight quite often. But as we grew older and snow levels rose, those snownights got more and more rare. Last week, some of us finally gathered again for some …
Join our #wintervanlife.
As you can imagine, there are a couple of differences between what you consider as vanlife and the one we are living right now. Having finished an epic road trip along Europes Atlantic southwest coast we adapted “Rolling John Wayne” …
Haines, AK 2016: a freeride dream.
A snowboarders dream came trhough.
Last April I made my first trip to Alaska. Alaska Heliskiing in Haines was where I booked and the Funny Farm was the place to stay. Alaska has been a dream since I’ve watched the …
How I ended up owning a van in Alaska.
It doesn’t matter how hard you try to find a car, eventually, it will find you.
A good friend of mine gave me this advice years ago when I was looking for a campervan. Two weeks later at another good …
Powder at Night.
The good thing about Alaskan down days is that they leave you with plenty of time to get things done. So here is the edit of some quite remarkable and unexpected powder fun I had with David. While driving through …