World Junior Championships: Part 2 - Livigno

So where I left off we were travelling to Livigno. That trip ended up being a bit more complicated than we had originally thought. We almost got lost in Zurich, then we went 15 minutes up the top gears best road in the world (not so when it was that snowy, only to find out that it was blocked off and not used in the winter. Finally we arrived, tired and sore from the 5 hour drive.

We went straight to the restaurant, where we were greeted with an amazing meal. Like very amazing. We then went back to our hotel, and had a good night’s sleep.

The next morning, we woke up, went for a ski, and realized just how awesome Livigno was. If I could describe it, I’d say it was like a combination of Canmore’s mountains with Silverstar’s ski network with awesome food. We went for a nice easy ski, as we were just getting used to Livigno’s 1800 metres of altitude. The sun was shining, the grooming was great and the scenery was beautiful.

The panorama from my hotel balconey

Patrick and Andy skiing

Yay!

Perfect grooming

There was steam coming off the stream. Looked pretty cool.

So this is where we stayed for 4 days. Every day was beautiful conditions, and always the awesome food. It was a lot of fun.

On the third day, we went down to Bormio, Italy, which is a 40 minute drive away, in order to do some intervals. We couldn’t do the intervals at Livigno’s high altitude, but Bormio’s altitude was just fine. There we hammered out some intense descending intervals, then went back to Italy for one last day.

One final ski, one fine final meal, and then we headed straight back up to Hinterzarten.

Livigno & I

Panorama of Bormio

Panorama of Livigno

Andy, unable to eat wheat or milk, got a special meal, just for him

Me and my cake. All I wanted was a piece of cake, and they gave me a piece of cake... and wipped cream, gelato, and custard... awesome