The Taelemans´ Blog

Next week I’m going to ISPO 2008.

Like I told you guys in my last post, ISPO is an international sports trade fair.
It’s pretty cool, i’m going to be able to watch the new collections (2008-2009) of different snowboard brands. First of all, the new collection of Beyondsnow. Besides Beyond, other brands like Arbor, Burton, Ride, Rome, … will be there too.

I’m excited because I’m looking forward to build our booth (pictures of the booth will follow), to meet new people, to party and of course I can’t forget to work:) . If you want to follow the progress of everything check out the Beyondsnow Blog. We will try to post some pictures during the fair.

As promised, some more info about my trip to Stubai. I had to go to stubai for my work (Beyondsnow). I left last week on Thursday. It was a pretty exhausting trip. I had to fly from Brussels to Vienna and from Vienna to Innsbruck. Since I only got one houre to change planes I didn’t had the time to pick up my luggage. In Innsbruck I had to wait for the next flight to arrive from Vienna to get my luggage. But finally around 9 pm, it arrived.

The next morning (Friday morning) I left to the Stubai Glacier.

The glacier was amazing, the snow was perfect. It had been snowing the whole week, and when we arrived, the sky was amazingly blue.

We did some snowboarding on Friday and we prepared everything for the small festival that was starting on Saturday.

Friday evening we went to our hotel. The hotel is called the Dresdener Hütte. It was a pretty amazing hotel because it was still on the mountain. We didn’t have to go down to the village, we could stay on the mountain the whole weekend. There was nothing there except for the hotel and a party “Stube”. So you could go out at night for a walk and see thousands of stars and enjoy the silence of the nature at night…

This is a picture of the “Hütte” (photo from their website) . When I was there, everything was covered with snow.

On Saturday and Sunday I worked at the booth on the glacier and I snowboarded a little bit. It was really amazing to go snowboarding with people I normally don’t go snowboarding with. Because now I did some stuff which I normally wouldn’t do. I was riding with some pro’s so I had the opportunity to learn some new stuff.

Now I’m prepared to go riding this winter in Kitzbühel!!!