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Far from Home

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Shitty weather but spring is here!

We have gotten close to nothing filmed the past few months. The weather has been absolutely terrible. With a few sunny day that have been so windy it's hopeless to do anything on the jumps. Riding rails is beginning to feel abit boring almost because it's the only option on the super windy day. The wind also destroys all the soft snow so no pow to be found.
On the upside I've been out abit more than usual. For me it's a good thing because I might not go out at all for a few months and it gets sort of antisocial. The busy weeks for example are usually so exhausting the alot of the day you just can't find the power to get your ass of the couch once you get home. I've started going to the gym again on a more weekly basis, always a good way to get more energy.
I think everyone know we've had a few really good nights with some amazing northern lights. The were so strong that even if it was abit cloudy that radiant light pushed trouhgt the clouds.
I grabbed my camera and the tripod but was too late once I got everything in place. Another time I guess...
I've been home from work trying to get my knees in better shape which means I've been watching alot of stupid stuff but yesterday I found some gems from the past. The best snowboarding movies ever. Movies that get you more hyped on snowboarding than any other.

Some of the great
Mack Dawg Productions movies I found on youtube.




The quality is poor but it doesn't really matter. Still awesome.

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I got a new edit done. Had some problems with the resolution so I had to render it 4 times and upload it twice before I got it to work and look the way I wanted.

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Svanstein

Here we go. So on January 17th we headed to Svanstein since there has been alot of talk about the resort this winter. I'm going to cut it short.
There are 2 t-bars but still alot of terrain to be ridden. If it snows alot they leave some slopes as they are so you get to ride pow on the slopes too. In some areas they have been cutting down alot of trees for BC riding which is awesome. You might have to walk back to the lift 10 mins or so but it's worth it. The staff all around the mountain were really outgoing and friendly and just ask the lifties and you will get good directions towards the good pow spots.
The terrain is kinda steep, but nothing too crazy.
As it got dark we had some lunch and hit the park. The park wasn't too much fun. Alot of small features and some of the takeoffs were abit sketchy. Then again they started working on the park abit more around a week later so I think we'll be going back to check out the park later this season.
I forgot to set my bindings back on the board and was too lazy to do anything about it later so the riding isn't the best and during the day I crashed quite alot. So this clip is far from good in my opinion but shows abit of Svansteins potential.


 
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"Picture issue"

One month since the last post. I've been working and the weather has been terrible. Prolly the worst season so fr when it come to the weather. It's been super foggy and when it's clear enough to ride the park it's too windy. On some days we got some footage off the bigger jumps but it always ended up with wind blowing up making it really sketchy to hit the bigger ones. Here are some pictures from the past month(s?)
Theese pictures are not edited in any way and are mostly taken with my phone!

Brutal Death by fire!

This summer I'm working for the national park, it wouldn't be interesting to write about that but today something weird happened. We were burning theese stacks of hay, leaves and branches. While watching the fire I saw a frog approaching the fire and then just jumping straight into the embers to an instant death. Now tell me if THAT isn't interesting!

Been working alot and it's all physical labor so you get really tired from work almost every day, on the positive side I get to be outdoors all day.
Been climbing abit less since I'm usually too tired after work. And lately my leg (knee and hip) got injured while wakeboarding. I really don't know what happened but for 5 days it was really hard to move my left leg. Wakeboarding was awesome since I miss snowboarding like crazy and it kinda feels like riding pow. I might get some pictures off myself wakeboarding at some point to share in a week or so.

This picture is from the morning I was on my way to take part in a sailboat race. We did get some wind eventually but at some point it got really booring when the wind just died.

I have been fishing alot more than the summers before, and I think that's enough about that because haven't gotten anything really big like a shark. But Tumppi sent me a cool picture from when we went fishing.

So winter is getting closer haha! I noticed that Vuokatti is building an indoor training facility with dryslope jumps and foampits, too bad thay will open in december.
I actually edited a new clip but since my connection is reaaaally weak I'll upload it later this week when I got time to take my laptop to the closest place with a fast connection.

But still this week!!!!

Check out JunkYard Super Summer Sale , last year I bought some shoes and sunglasses really cheap.

While waiting for the next edit, check this awesome "commercial" out. Will get you hyped for almost anything!




 

Edit update!

So now I have been trying everything to get my laptop to agree with me but it looks like the format of the mats from my other camera is too much for my computer to handle. I should get the solution to this problem next mon/tue, yay! Still fighting the flue but getting better, might not even take any meds tomorrow. Bumped into this vid and can't really deside if this is cool or just retarded :D Is this something you actually can learn how to do and actually stomp it most of the time or is this more about luck? And as many of you might know they come up with crazy ideas about how to build unique snowboards at SignalSnowboards, this time they made a rideable snowboard made out of glass, check it out. That's all for today, here is something I made today.

Time to rest!

Wazzup! I'm actually uploading my newest clip as I'm writing this post. Because my computer doesn't want to fully agree with me it took me like 10 hours to edit, on top of that I couldn't add any effects such as slowmotions because that would end up with the computer crashing. But still. Last weekend we took a different approach on filming, we left the GoPro in the bag, used my normal vid cam and planned ahead what we wanted to film and where. However I'll edit those clips tomorrow, today I edited stuff we filmed earlier this month. We got what we wanted and the results were good, even tho I took a pretty nasty fall on my ass. I don't even think it's possible but it felt like a broke my right butt-cheek. But for once we got it on film and I will put it in the edit tomorrow. At the end of the day I took this cool picture of the sunset and Kaarle taking pictures of the sunset (not edited in any way). On saturday I actually felt abit weak already but yesterday I still desided to go to work, it was a slow day but still got the most of my strength. Today it felt hopeless getting out of bed, I was pretty much out of breath from sleeping. Went to the doctor and got subscribed 3 differend meds and 3 sick days. This is one reason why I have had time to edit. I did take a break mid day cos I found it hard to stay awake. I got my new bindings, Ride Rodeo, and they are just awesome. The date is set for our Björkliden trip so it really looks like this is happening, totally hyped about that. Let's just hope for awesome weather. So if my computer is feeling friendly tomorrow there will be another edit coming up tomorrow. Until then... Good Night!! zzzZzZzzzzzZz

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Getting colder! Skiing holidays are closing in...

It's almost a month since my last post. Time is just passing by so damn fast it's ridiculous. This week has been the first week of a healthier diet and lifestyle and I feel really good about it already. I've met awesome people at work and gotten some really nice feedback. All in all a good week. So what's new. The weather has been quite nice until this week/the past few day, the sky has been clear which is nice and the days are getting longer. It's awesome when the sun is out but it also usually means that it's pretty darn cold. For example today at work it was -29C/-20.2F which kinda takes the fun out of working outdoors.

This is a cool picture of some weird phenomenon, took this pic today and it's not edited in any way. It was warmer at the top of the front slope so I guess that is one of the reasons you can see the sunrays.

Last weekend I went to Helsinki to move all of my stuff out of my appartment which kinda sucked, on the upside I got no rent to pay. So I guess I'm more or less homeless at this point. The most annoying thing about going to Helsinki was that it started snowing the night before I left, and snowed for almost a whole week. For once the temp stayed above and around -10C/14F which ment the snow stayed light and soft. When I got back the best pow days were over but still got some sweet runs during the week.

The weekend before I went to Helsinki me and 9 others from the ski-school went to Aakenus near Ylläs to look for some powder, we ended up hiking alot and getting two poor runs, or actually poor doesn't really begin to explain the first one. But the food was good and the surroundings beautiful.

I was about to start editing at one point but Kaarle felt like it's better to film abit more, so that we have. My computer sucks big time but I managed to capture some frames from the new footy, suddenly everything froze so I desided to just leave it for now. So until I get the new edit done, here is a little something.

Kaarle totally killed ito n the rails but I'm going to leave that as a surprise.