Onboard Blogs - Melanie Schönthier

German National Halfpipe Championships going indoors!

August 17, 2007 @ 11:50 AM -

On October 3, the German Natonal Halfpipe Championships will take place in the Snow Funpark in Wittenburg, Northern Germany, which is blessed with an indoor halfpipe since last spring. I have already been there and have to admit that it is worth a visit: Perfect 4,5 meter walls, no crowds and you can do about 100 runs a day as the chair lift brings you up to the top of the 330 meters long slope with in two minutes! <div class="full clearfix">ethan_morgan.gif width=450 height=30115 year old Ethan Morgan and local from Garmisch wants to prove that Bavaria has got more steeze than Prussia (Northern Germany)...</div> One of the best German rookie riders, Benny Urban from Hamburg (only a 45 minute drive from Wittenburg) looks forward to the contest: "Normally I have to drive about 1000 k´s to get to ride a pipe in the mountains." But also the "legends from the Alpes", Xaver Hoffmann and Christophe Schmidt, will compete in this unusual surrounding... I´m curious who will win the battle "Preisn gegen Bayern" (for non-native German speakers: This is Nothern Germany against Bavaria or - maybe more common - England against France)!!! More information: http://www.snowfunpark.com