getting the shot

due to the last "warm" days we went out for a photoshoot yesterday.
our crew consisted of daniel krummreich, seppi strohmeier, jens klatt and myself. jens had the idea of taking some shots of the rissbach for the upcoming kanumagazin issue and so off we went.
there have been tons of pics already, but it's really hard to get good shots as the gorge is so narrow that you barely have good light. so jens installed a pretty sick remote flash system to enlight us!

the whole crew

2nd and 3rd drop

the rissbach gorge is a super classic run. there certainly is a bit of a hype about it, the reason being the first and highest drop. it would be the most relaxed boof ever, if it wouldn't be for those nasty undercuts. even at those low flows we ran it at it's quite pushy at the bottom and you definitely don't want to land too far left as you'd probably have a mean encounter with the deep deep undercut that goes all the way behind the drop.
it's one of these simple move - bad consequences drops, but if you can trust your boof it's good to go. you just should be 100% sure that you can do it, cause a swim would be horrible, especially as you can't get out of the gorge once you're in.
then there are two more smaller drops. at higher flows you can simply boof the first to the right, at our level it was a bit more tricky but still okay as it wasn't that pushy. the last ledge is a nice little ramp into a narrow channel, pretty fun.

we ran the whole thing four times, walking back up after every run.
during the AKC-meetings people have run it up to 25 times in one day. they didn't wait for cameras and it was quite warm in fall, but still i wouldn't even try to walk up there that often. respect.

all in all it was a super nice day, sunny weather, still so much ice in the gorge, everybody had sweet lines and i think jens got quite a few sick shots.
so enjoy jens' pics and my video.

wintertime

first drop

seppi sailing into the fridge

daniel lining up for the first one

verry nice, i like!