archive for the ‘biking’ category

new in the skiwelt

January 31st, 2013

Winter time and plenty of snow to start the season. Plenty of guests having a malarkey (can you have a malarkey?), time with the children checking out the new tobogan upgrades and skiing, skiing, skiing!.

watching the pro’s & autumn mtb’ing

September 27th, 2012

Riding with guests and watching the professionals at the Saalfelden UCI World Cup Championships. It’s been a fun month, just one or two more groups then it is time for the ski season!

men’s UCI XCO World Championships

September 22nd, 2012

Next onto the Men’s race in Saalfelden. Would Julien Absalon be able to compete with the world class Swiss.

woman’s UCI World Championships in Saalfelden

September 20th, 2012

An exciting, tricky course for the finale of the UCI XCO Women’s World Championships. Our guests and I enjoyed a day out in Saalfelden.

Life in the Tirol

August 14th, 2012

Ouch, such a long break from updating the blog. Let me put it down to being busy with guests and being outside on the mountains much more than inside on the computer.

winter rolls into summer

May 9th, 2011

As the skis get put away, the bike is quickly out on surprisingly dry trails. Time to get fit again whilst the lifts are closed for a month or so.

Austrian skiing and Christmas

January 6th, 2011

Twitter posts and photos, some strong beer and the start of the Austrian skiing season. Also a bit of well earned family time to celebrate the Christmas festivities…

all I do is eat and ride

December 1st, 2010

Loads of twitter posts and even more unseen photos. Life is good, eating, drinking and mountain biking throughout the 2010 season…

november highlights

November 22nd, 2010

Epic riding

A look back at the goings on at Up and Downhill in November in previous years. This is a quick selection of our favourite posts, our favourite mountain biking photos, a promotional video and some interesting news items.

mountain bike holiday in photos and video

October 11th, 2010

A new format for our write up of our latest holiday guests. A set of photos and a short video of the mountain biking that we got up to in October. Yes that’s right, October mountain biking in the Alps.