Well, long time since last post..... We left Cesana and traveled to Munich then up through Dresden and finally on to a little place in the Forest called Altenberg. Altenberg is billed as being the most difficult and dangerous track around. However, it has a facinating history. It was built in the 1980s as a top secret East German training track for the 1988 Calgary Olympics. It has the most difficut parts of all the tracks to its date and is modeled kind of like Calgary´s, the track lies entierly below the tree line so no one could discover it.
The town itself is... well depressing yet interesting. Some parts have not been changed since WWII, and that goes for the people as well. A big change from Cesana. Everyday after sliding we head to the "sport prison". A 1950`s sport training facility \ dorm to do our dryland training. It is a real unique experience. The most interesting training equipment around, however, developed in the 1950\60´s, still just like something out of a cold war era sports movie. Internet and phones are very difficult to get,hopefully Konigssee (Salzberg) is better. An interesting side note, our next track, Konigssee, is in the German\Austrian Alps and from the start house you can see Hitlers Eagles Nest on the next mountain. Photos to come as soon as we find wireless access.
Oh yeah, what a great time driving the Autobahn, going 150 or more and having Porches blow your doors off going 220. We thing the Deerfoot is Bad!!!
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