Kazbek

The request in the fall came out of the blue: "Do you want to go to Georgia? I was there in the summer, the mountains look promising." Georgia, hmmm. Check the rusty geography in my brain. It should be somewhere in the east, close to Russia. Oh yes, there was a conflict over an autonomous region between Georgia and Russia in 2008. That's it for my knowledge of Georgia. Wrongly so, because the country has an incredible amount to offer, as I will gradually learn during the trip.

For seven years now, the friends of the Lauf Rauf collective have been meeting up in the mountains to spend a week exploring the terrain and enjoying their time together. This year, for the first time, they traveled outside the Alps and sought their fortune in Georgia. Toni Brey, photographer and passionate freerider from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, was there again and brought back a lot of beautiful pictures.