stephan mantler

Hochschwab

Wintergraph 2010

The Wintergraph seminar is an annual get-together of the Austrian Visual Computing community, spending three days socializing and making new contacts on the slopes as well as during informal presentations in the evenings. Now in its fifth year, it took place at the Tauplitz ski resort in Styria.
I don’t ski slopes (much), so I was [...]

so much snow it makes grown men cry

Another early sunday, another backcountry tour. Sound familiar?
This morning Niko and I made a trip up the Blahstein near Mürzzuschlag. And boy was that a great idea. Tons and tons of fresh, powdery snow, and relatively safe avalanche conditions in the forests and clear cuts. The general avalanche danger was level 4 – severe – [...]