many times in many years.
More freerides masegn falera.
I skied this freeride many years ago and it was love at first sight. So close to a huge ski area, on sunny weekends overcrowded, but here you are all on your own. Here you find inner peace.
Many freerides look scary, some are some are not, this one definitely is not. In good snow conditions, it's an easy freeride. There are no real dangers, as long as you know the way, unless you get lost, keep more to the left, to the right is a gully, cliff, canyon, that can end deadly and you end up in the Rhine and later on in the Atlantic Ocean.
one of my favourite freerides, a comfort zone freeride, beautiful mountain scenery around you, no steep hills to ski down, also suitable for average skiers, when the snow conditions are normal, but sometimes like yesterday, when the snow conditions were rather icy and choppy and ..., it looks easy, but it isn't, then it's not recommended. easy and not much danger around like avalanches, elephants and siberian tigers or falling big fat snowflakes.
The pictures are taken from 5 different rides down, at different days and in different time zones. You start here, on the right side of the photo, in the very distance you see the Masegn top station, the start is on the backside of the station:
and end up near this historic church:
and end here. What a church, see, isn't this nice?
In between it feels like and ski through this:
now you understand why I ski this down on and on again. Thank you for sharing my joy with you.
Mellow freeriding
Freeriding for many people means steep, steeper, ..., danger, adrenalin, fast pace. this is very true for winter stations like Chamonix, La Grave, Engelberg, Verbier. And there you can live this reputation. If you drink a Red Bull 4 breakfast, go there. My ski station Flims Laax Falera also has steep rides, but more so we abound in easy freerides, that compare more to a love song by ... (here please add your lovesong you were listening to when you were kissed for the fist time) than a fast rokk song by Metallica or the Ramones. I ski slowly, I breath the clean and cold air, the glittering of the snowflakes blinds my eyes, I smell the fir trees and I hum: *Oh Tannenbaum*, I stop and listen to the stillness. after my freerides you are mellow, not hyped up. You end up in a homey tea room, in einer kleinen Konditorei, and you (if you are S...) order a Linzertorte, oder ein Stück bündner Birnenbrot, or a slice of bread with dried pears from the Grisons.
you want peace, come here.
