Sunny Powder Sunday

This is the face i hiked on sunday. nothing wrong with the weather !

Caroline rigging up

Caroline and Victor crossing paths. only had my 50mm lens so no close up actions shots this time

Caroline cruising out in the beatiful snow

Yeasterday was a classic day ! blue skies and about 30-40 cms of fresh snow ! i decided to spend some time kiting as there was a little breeze. i can kite from A to B but i have always struggled a bit in deep snow, and unfortunlately i had a 2 hour struggle with the kite lines and bottomless snowpack. after crashing my kite in the head of an innocent bystander that got a little upset, i gave it up.. kind of bad cause it was probably one of the best kite days of the season so far ! went hiking with my Snowboard instead so it was all good in the end !

Powder Pumping !

Victor cruising through the forest on his Rhino chasers,Telemark style. actually this place is in the county of Telemark. a place with proud skiing traditions. you can read a little more about telemark skiing here http://www.sondrenorheim.com/

Andreas in the deep of it !

Im Spending the weekend in the mountains and were having beautiful winter conditions here now. lots of fresh powder and cold temperatures ! we went to Haukeli today and had good riding in about a foot of powder. the visibility on the top face wasnt the best, but it was good and fun forest riding ! after a couple of hours one of the lifts were closed,and the queue at the bottom just got too long. went and hiked a face in knee deep powder instead. the snow was so deep and fluffy i had too straight line it to keep momentum. if these conditions continue i have to get a bigger and wider board !

Pudderpløying i Haukelifjell

Martin jumps everything. im guessing that if he finds a 15-20 footer with a soft landing his gonna do it. Note his choise of headwear..

Oskar is probably having vision problems here :) Common problem in steep & deep POW

The South and Southeast parts of Norway have recieved huge amounts of snow the last week ! some parts had about 4 feet of snowfall ! the forecast was for the weather to clear up today Sunday. There was no way i was gonna miss a powderfilled bluebird day.. So i did the usual thing. wax the board,pack the car,load the coffeemaker and set the alarmclock to 04.50 ! after a 5 hour drive (with stops for a ferry and nap) i met up with two members of Haukeli Powder Hookers Crew ! namely Oskar and Martin. theyre sensible people and know the golden rule of be there before the lifts open ! Today i Rode from 10.00 to 15.30 with just two quick stops for water and chocolate ! The riding was totally epic. A foot of dry POW and SUN !

Rock N Roalden !

Simon loves mountains. it affects his driving here. his looking more out of the window than on the road..

This is the top part of todays riding area.

Victor

Myself. not the best picture quality today. we had some focusing
problems

Victor learned Telemark in record time last winter !

Unknown skier came flying by.

Happy campers...

Komlekoma !

"komle" the food of champions !

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Today the Roalden area opened, and it had some nice soft snow. we found a really good off piste area with some nice small faces and forests. really good fun ! for the evening session we went to a resort we hadnt been to and it had a lot of potential ! really impressed with the riding on offer here. in the evening we had clear skies and a full moon. the wiev of the mountains were amazing ! really cool to go off piste in semi darkness !

Day 4

Oskar changed from telemark (free heel) to Snowboard. hes the stylemaster anyhow !

Martin mid rotation.

Martin meets snow. how is it possible to land like that :)

Simon tweaks !

Weve been a little spoiled with the snowconditions so far on this trip. this morning the forecast was for baltic temperatures and 20 cm of snow during the day. in the morning i put some wax on my board that would have worked in Siberia to get a good glide in the bottomless pow. to our surprise there was mild weather and a light drizzle at the resort. we got so disapointed that we just left without even getting out of the car.. after an hour planning at the cabin we decided to go back and check out the top lift. i rewaxed my board as well. luckily the conditions were better than we thought,at least for a couple of hours. we had wet a layer of about 10cms of wet fun snow to play with. we built a small kicker and the other guys even dropped some cliffs. my legs unfortunlately wasnt up for anything radical today, but i managed to ride the face switch stance top to bottom (not too steep) after a while it turned to drizzle again and then rain.. the others are doing the evening session now. Luckily Victor is well again,and he is out skiing as well.

Pudder til Pungen !

Oscar cruising. this spot had a little less snow than the rest of the resort , but it was untracked. i timed the opening of the top lift and got first tracks ! the rest of the crew came an hour later :)

Nothing wrong with the mountains here !

20 cm of fresh POW. first tracks ! 4.5 hours of powder riding today.only bad news is that victor is still sick after 3 days.

Powder Paradise !

It dumped about 15 cms of powder this night and another 15 has probably arriwed during the day ! it was a bit stormy at the Stranda resort today, but we got a solid 2 hour session before they closed. the skipass we have is valid for 5 resorts here and there is always floodligted evening opening in one of them. this evening we drove over to Fjellsetra which have been closed for two days. it was a solid foot + of fresh pow there.. the entire lower part of the resort had lights so we had enough areas to ride !