The last days I had in Engelberg was really epic. Fast pow on top, sunny and warm in the valley. I was shredding with Oskar, Yves Husler (coolest name in snowboarding), Mattias Hargin, Bolling and the rest of the good guys down there. Here’s a video of some of the happy-shred that went down. Enjoy it, and spread it:
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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Apr 12
Epic day
Had my last day in Engelberg today. I’m packing up and are soon driving back to Sweden. I’m happy, cause I had an EPIC day today. Was skiing with Mattias Hargin, Oskar Enander and a bunch of other good friends. Can’t post much, cause I’m in a rush, bet here are two pictures that says it all:
- Yeah. The snow was pretty ok today. Cold, blower pow in the end of April. YES! Mattias Hargin enjoying himself.
- Weird self portrait. But I think you can see the happiness!
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Apr 12
Spring powder video
I keep on stealing other people’s blogs. This time it’s my flat mate and photo wizard Oskar Enander who did a nice edit of the riding yesterday. The helmet cam shots is from me. I will do an edit of that, and some more, later.
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Apr 12
Blog
No time for blogging today But Mattias Hargin posted some pics of me from today! Look at the HERE.
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Apr 12
Crooks Collective
Don’t really know what Crooks Collective is, but I know that some of my friends that I really like are crooks, in that collective. Here’s an edit they just posted. Take a look. Now. It’s good.
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Apr 12
Skiing
Haven’t been that much of it lately, so it feels good to be back on snow again! Been sliding with Oskar (he left his photo pack at home, and I’m happy for him for that), Linus Archibald (Why can’t I also have a cool name like that?!), Johan, Oskar H and Simpa. Good times with good locals! Here are some pics:
- Same pic again. From AK. I had to post it one more time…
- On the flight from Seattle to San Fran. Golden Gate. I heard it’s the most photographed object in the world.
- SF.
- SF.
- Another bridge.
- In Swedish it’s called “meandringar”. It’s good for fishing! Don’t think there were any fish here though…
- SF.
- Weird.
- Fields of… something.
- SF.
- “Hello. I’m gonna build a big ass house in the middle of this swamp.”
- And then I was in Engelberg. Oskar and Simpa half way down Galtiberg.
- Näcken?
- There’s a lot of asians in Engelberg. They don’t come there to ski though. What this lady was doing I don’t know. Looked cold…
- Simpa, looking forward to 1000 vertical meters of POW, and then 1000 vertical of slush.
- Oskar. Mini shred.
- Happy?
- Here’s the bottom of Galti. A little less snow…
- Next day. Laub. This is what we not skied, cause Steinberg was better. Sweet!
- Some dudes enjoying the spring- and less crowded Engelberg.
- What’s the matter with these people?!?!
- Wall.
- That’s a core shot, Linus!
- Half of Galtiberg.
- You have to hike a couple of hundred meters, traversing the golf course, to the taxi pick up. Feels weird.
- Dudes.
- In Swedish this is “Tussilago”, and that means that it’s spring!
- “Iäm just gonna vacuum my horse a bit. No biggie.”
- Yesterday evening Barcelona played Real Madrid. Oskar is a huge Barca-fan, so this was a big thing to him.
- Nina came for dinner, with Johan and Ljunkan.
- This is fun. Oskar was so excited that he sat in this pose, EXACTLY, for 27 minutes. Unfortunately, that didn’t help, and Barcelona lost.
- Today. Sitting and waiting for someone to join me on the mountain. It suddenly started pjuking! It never ends this year.
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Apr 12
Engelberg
Been in Engelberg a couple of days now. Today I didn’t get any of the spoiled bastards here to ski with me, but yesterday I did a couple of Galtibergs with Simpa and Oskar. It was really good the first half, and ski murdering the second half. Took a while to fix my skis today… Today I also got my Helldorado back (Swiss lost them). Gonna be sweet to ski with them again tomorrow!
In the middle of Galtiberg. I like to be surrounded by big walls…
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Apr 12
Oh well…
When you go to a destination, you always have a time window. There’s always a date when you have to go home. Sometimes you kill it within that timeframe, and sometimes you don’t. That’s the name of the game… We got some good stuff in Haines, but not as much as we wanted. Just a little bit of bad luck with mini-injuries in the group, and too much sun, is enough to make difference between success and mediocre.
Enough of the whining! I’m back in Euroland now. Sitting in Zurich Airport and waiting for my skis, that didn’t make the same flight as me… Engelberg didn’t have the same problem as AK, since it seems like it have been snowing a lot there! So, stoked to ski tomorrow after sitting on my ass for ten days!
Something else to check out is the new TimeLine episode from Xavier and the muppets. Take a look at that HERE and some iPhone shots:
- “Skojjin”. I like the woods. In AK too.
- An eagle. There’slots of them in Haines.
- Clouds, but no snow…
- Hello?
- @33 mile. Pancho?
- 33 mile has the best pies I’ve ever tasted I think. Have to be a break in the pie eating for me know, otherwise I’m gonna roll down the mountain…
- Water. Again. Hello Ben.
- What comes out of this one is pretty fckn awesome!
- Pôjkon – kind of like Stjordal huh?
- Or maybe not… Look at the weight.
- Bjenn.
- When we went home on the ferry, I didn’t find anywhere to sleep, and it was a nice sunset on deck, and not that cold. So I did some Zopiklon self medication and went to sleep. Woke up about three hours later, and it was very dark, and very, very cold. Nice sunset though!
- In Sweden, contraband has to do with music. Anyway, I’m not into any on the contraband things, so I was fine.
- Klas?
- Calippo?
- Juneau. Awesome.
- Sweet shoes.
- There’s always too much of this look in my life… Hard to get to the places I need though, without flying.
- Oskar let me rest my tired feet on him. Hero.
- San Francisco.
- Xavier?! What are you doing on the airplane?!
- And right now, I’m waiting for our skis. They missed the last flight. Pjuh…
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Apr 12
Bruce Bauer…
…is a good man. Check out his/Funny Farm’s page here. Next year it’s gonna be a new, big house to live in up at 27 miles.
- Fishing hands.
- Pirate.