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)

Austrian Ambush assasin Harry Juen not only has a name like a Columbian drug baron he’s got the same flamboyant dress sense, which as it happens is just what you need to get noticed in a nightshoot. While Columbian Juen i probably out dealing dope, Harry is laying down his dope all over Venet Night Park.

Photo courtesy of Felix “the enforcer” Pirker.

Taste is subjectiv. And so is style. Hopefully that style had its right of existence in its days. Austrian railmaster Harry Jay and his drinking mate, celebrating the end of the season, by sacrificing their livers to the goddess of snow for a better 2012/13 powder season.

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 !

While others need saltwater and sand for a change,  Harry’s unbroken motivation follows the winter to the southern hemisphere. Warming up on a quiet early morning rail in NZ.