Can you put it on the scales, please? usa medical supply The course, known to Kitz-connoisseurs as the Streif, is a gruelling 3,312 metres that every season challenges the best racers in the world in Super-G, downhill and slalom as they attempt to grip and rip its ice-glazed corners and master its famous jumps, the Mausefalle (Mousetrap) and Hausberg. But today there were no Salomons in sight, no aerodynamic-suited competitors or cheering spectators with rattling cowbells, just me in my flimsy plimsolls (my easyJet cabin bag allowance ruled out walking boots), clutching a bottle of apfelsaft and another of suntan lotion, ''enjoying’’ an alpine hike.