Saturday sliding down a mountain..

On my first trip sliding down the Alpine Coaster, I tried to make a video of it as well, but its rather distracting trying to film while giving gas to the sled. What a ride.. hills, banks, curves, cows, trees.. They advertise that it takes 9 minutes to go down. I timed it at 5:32. Franz and Pascal and Ralf and I rented a car to head down to Imst for this. Franz had been there a few days ago with an American that found out about it, so was eager to show off. We each rode 3 times, comparing notes on which curves were the best, and where to let it fly. It took a bit of coordination to make sure noone was on the track in front of us, so that we didn't have to slow down much. As it was, on the video above, Pascal was in front of me, and despite all his tough talk about "You can't fly off, I'll go full speed", he rode the brakes and I nearly caught him. I think by the 3rd ride, he was flying down catching up with people as well.
I've got things nearly packed for my trip to Scotland to Edinburgh for this week's work. This is the original work I was supposed to do in London, but its moved up that way. Will be a busy week up there, then back to Munich for the Oktoberfest kickoff. I look forward to that, and hate having to leave right now.