Most people assume high season is the best time of the year. Everything is in full-swing, everyone is out riding and the world is rushing by. For some maybe it's true, if you love the feeling of a crowd, of the fast-pace, then there's nothing quite like it. Yet if your high season means months packed with work, races and traveling and your winter is a dead time waiting for the world to begin again, it's the bits in between you long for. Those few short weeks at the start and end of summer when the trails are perfect, the weather just warm and days long and free. It's a chance to do the little things you've been secretly planning or simply wake up and just head out.
As the race season began to unwind this year I headed up to Lenzerheide in Switzerland to catch up with two of Germany's top enduro racers, Tobias Woggon and Julia Hofmann. None of us had stopped all summer, between races, photo shoots, trade shows, events and injuries the three of us were pretty beat down. Tobi had been nursing a plan all summer though - to head up to Scalottas and catch the sunrise. Sitting at 2,300m, a full 800m above the town, you can wait until the 9 and take the lifts up with everyone else. Or you can pin the tiny, sketchy mountain roads in his creaky van and hike to the crest to watch the sun rise over the Roethorn and then pin your way back down to the valley in that beautiful, golden light...
www.lenzerheide.com
People have kids, jobs, debts...and even that's not and excuse!
Go hit the trails!