Jan 10: On the Ice World Cup Circuit, commentary.

Abby Watkins, Rich Marshall, Ben Firth and I are over here competing in the third Ice World Cup. Basically it's going well; some readers may remember I gave the organizers a fair amount of grief and vice versa when I won the series a couple of years back, but things do seem better now for sure. Kirov was a great experience, more on that later, and now we're off to Pitztal. Here's some totally random photos in the meantime...

Ueli Steck, our host in Interlaken, climbing shirtless on White Out, M10. We've been training here a lot, good spot, a good effort by Robert Jasper to develop it so nicely!

Approaching Isenfluh--you take the tram up and then "Rodle" (that's the sled) down to the climbs. Now that's a proper approach...

Stefan Husson at Kirov. These hanging barrels were awesome, see ice-time.com for more shots.