Leaving Golden for USA

By all means of a timeline this post should've been uploaded before the Hawaii-trip. But we didn't get the pictures from the trip sorted until now. So enjoy these until next update.

Just outside of golden 1400kms to go...

First stop Whistler Creekside were we slept with the boys and girls in Vale inn #305 thanks a bunch dudes cya in a couple weeks

Mike is happy when driving through Vancouver

Mike was so happy in the last pic he forgot to change lanes... We did a timelapse of the scenic hwy 99 from whistler to vancouver or really, mike did his camera has waaay to many butons and dials for me.

The concrete/glass architectural marvel of downtown Vancouver, as well as any other big city. impressive and ugly at the same time

At the gates of freedom... Soon enogh we will be in the land of the free and home of the brave, just a terryfing passportcontrol between us and us.

The bordercrossing went fine 30min and then we were in. A high-speed drive for a couple of hours and we arrived at this fine 17buck a night lodging in the next vancouver. This Vancouver is just north of Portland.

We even got free wireless internet If snaking it from another fancyer motel... But holding the computer exacly at that angle I could call home to sweden for a couple of minutes.

We went past a load of funny places but this one we guessed werent one of them... Update: when going home from hawaii we took the road through boring and well, it wasnt Funny thats for sure.

Finally closing in on our goal. just 30mins left of our journey. Mt Hood is the Volcano straight ahead.

The Cascade Ski Club our home for the next couple of weeks. Notice the snow I am 180cm.

Same stair im walking towards earlier in the season

Inside, nice livingroom, TV with acouple of hundred channels (doesnt say much about the quality though)

Our Sleeping beds, where we sleep, mine the first to the right. Mikes to the left.

One side off the road in Government camp, about one tenth of the population in Golden a whooping 314 persons live here

The other side of the road, and thats about all there is to Govy Camp

The road to the skihill Mt Hood Meadows, one of five resorts at Mt Hood. The snow actually covered the exit sign so we missed it and had to u-turn back.

Finally at Mt Hood Meadows, now im the happy camper. in the background is our grey King Cab, not very king at all compared to the beasts that pass us on the interstate 5 all the time.

These handrails are depicted in a whole load of ski-/boardmovies.

Mikes one week Hawaii-vacation luggage, oh yes almost forgot a pro-grade Hi-Def solid-state Camcorder

Got some more snow. about 15-20cm

Yeah lots of snow, best season in 30 years the locals say.

Good old 2 seat slow as syrup liftequipment

Plenty of time for a photoshoot.

Mike the photographer, doing a selfportrait

Before we left to hawaii the parks and pipe werent really as good as expected but now its shaped like a dream, just some practise and the dumont altitude will be there =)

Rogers Pass...

Another update to this blog, I'm not very interested in writing and when the bloghost makes it a big hazzle for me to post pictures It aint much that keeps me updating. But atleast we have been doing some fun stuff here since my last update. Myself, Emil, Mike, Per and our friends Fredrik and Joakim went to Rogers Pass to catch some deep snow and snow we got. In less than 2 weeks Rogers pass got 2 meters of snow and the place is really beautiful. Fredrik and Joakim is leading the way and enjoying the scenery. Joakim is dropping in for the first run. Im enjoying the deepest, steepest glades I've ever skied The skis I had today was Pers Line EP pro soft, wide, centermounted and bananashaped. A whole load of fun on the way down but an assload to haul up the mountain, my skins werent wide enough so in the steeper sections I was gliding backwards, the turns were a big hazzle since te skis were centermounted and the rockered shape of the skis gives me about a meter of contact with the snow. Per hauling ass... ...in the deep stuff

We were out trying to build a jump, with emphasis on trying, it was hard to get everyones wishes through. When the sun went down below the mountains we all wanted to go home. I thought it was a shame to build a jump for four hours and nobody even trying it. So I decided to give it a shot, one try with an inrun that looks like shit since we didnt pack it an the snow froze after the sun went down leaving a layer of ice. The jump itself werent too bad but the lack of shaping made it a little sketchy. But I tried and the experiment went fairly well, I didnt hurt myself too bad, not at all infact.


So far so good, my first attempt at a Lincoln loop... ...but the bad snow in the landing got the best of me Some pictures from earlier when I acctually landed a frontflip

First post!

Ok, here we go again. Since I failed miserably at completing last years blog I have made some changes to this years attempt. The first one is that I now use blogspot as host since they have a tad better multiple image handling and overall easier to edit interface.

My brother Erik and I

Last weekend I was in Sälen and after 6 and a half months away from snow we got a great start of the season with 50cm fresh snow and Ski-testing. 

MyEHP193 performed very well and some notables among the skis tested where Völkl Katana with dukes. A really good ski with a superb binding. Völkl Wall got me really interested in a symmetric parkski and the rather stiff Rossi Steeze was a nice encounter and should be a competent bc-twin. On the sunday me and Per Nyberg went for some sidecountry and we had a load of fun in the great conditions. I cant imagine it getting much better there.

Per enjoying the scenery and some not very steep at all skiing

Some pretty nice gladed runs in Tandådalen