On Thursday we bumped into Amplid Ambush riders Harry J and Andi Nitsche on the snow. They’d been enjoying a week sliding and camping at Kaunertal, Austria’s number one spring destination for riders desparate to get a few more rails and kicker hits before the summer takes hold. Andi was particularly pleased that he’d managed to get his retro aircooled VW Camper up the 26km (>1500m vertical) climb. When the snow got too slushy it was straight to the 3 Wood for Marmot golf… a great way to keep Kaunertal’s booming Marmot population under control and spend hundreds of Euros on golfballs, never to be seen again. (*no Marmots were harmed at Hoodstock 2012)

The fact is, it’s impossible to be as busy as Ambush rider Andy Nitsche, when he’s not sleeping he’s skiing, when he’s not skiing he’s sleeping. How he fits in studying at University too is a mystery. Over the past month, while the Austrian and Bavarian Alps have been caked in fresh powder Andy has been doing us all a favour and skipping fresh tracks to ride park and urban features. Here are a couple of photos from Andy’s adventures and a QParks edit with Andy riding at Steinplatte . If there’s a man who works harder to get coverage than Andy he must be on the verge of death from exhaustion.

Bavarian ambush rider Andi Nitsche showing his latest promo edit … hey, nice boxing entry !!!

Here comes the badest crew, bad as bad can be: Felix Althammer, Teammanager Harald Juen (green jacket), new team entry Jürgen Nigg, Christian Graf and Andi Nitsche after their photoshoot in O’gau, bavarian alpes. Harry has been convincing austrian photographer Felix Pirker to freeze those guys on his smart cards. The result of the photoshoot you can watch right HERE !