20 december 2007

Nothing new only skiing...

Not much is going on right now, except Per and I got our new skis and boots along with my very red outfit. The skis are getting mounted as i write this. It should be very exciting to test the skis out unfortunately they wont be ready until monday. The new boots are rather ok, the fit is not as good as my Salomons yet but at least they arent hurting as bad as I thought they would. With time we will see how its helping my shinbang issues I had last year. Here is some new pictures of the house aswell. Below is the Kitchen with our Potscrubber II, the portable dishwasher in the middle. Great piece of equipment?

Our Outdoor Hottub, 40 degrees celsius all year around, or at least the cold months when its nice to get a hot bath outside. The owner is asking us to put out the lights in the rooms we're not using. But this little electricitysucker is apparently not a problem.

The resort is looking lovely through a fisheye...

Im pretty small compared to the canadian trees

Mike is bouncing through the glades...

...and i'm following him. Per, the photographer, has a good eye for a neat picture.

19 december 2007

Some Rocky Mountain skiing

After a slow weekend we went out skiing this monday morning and there wasnt a massive crowd slaying up all the 23cm that fell during the weekend. Speaking of snowdepth, in 2 days i have scratched up my skis worse than I did during the whole last season... But Emil and Mikes boards are a lot worse looking than my skis so I shouldnt complain to much.

The riding was good but as I said the snowpack is still a little low. The new snow was the smoothest I've ever skied with nothing even coming close. This place sure will rock whith one meter base added.

The good stuff is only a short hike away

Too bad a short hike at 2200-2500m still is pretty exhausting

I'm pushing the luck with a 360... I didnt make it.

Emil is glad we managed to get a ride in a pickup back to town.

Mike, Per and Amelie riding in the back.

15 december 2007

Finally in Golden

After a whole lot of travel and mixups Emil, myself and Mikael got past the immigration and where allowed to enter Canada. We met Per at the airport and went to our Hostel in Calgary. Then next day we got our SIN, Social Insurance Numbers, and met up with Amelie and her friend Dean. We all had a nice dinner and got to the Greyhoundstation the very last minute Read all about it in my mates blogs. At 22.30 we arrived in Golden and got to the really goodlooking and spacious accomodation.
Eating in Calgary
After a good nights sleep we are going skiing, the mountain is a 25min ride from where we live.
This is our House for the next few months. The owners live in the RV in front of the house. 
Per myself and Mikael enjoy beeing jetlagged.
The first run in KHMR!
The second Run we went on a little boothike to look how the famous sidecountry looks like.
We were lucky with the weather and the surroundings are marvellous a lot more Mountaineous than whistler
Getting ready at the instep for the first chute of the season
The Reward for our efforts. The terrain is a whole lot steeper than Whistler and more dangerous if you dont really know where to go so its recommended to ride the lines where you can see all the way down.
I'm looking as rad as I possibly can at the runout =)

07 december 2007

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