whitewater | Johan Jonsson

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29
Jan 13

Characters and bad forecasts

Had a day off today. Pretty good for my legs I guess, even though it sucks so bad to sit in front of the computer for a whole day. Jason and Aidan went shredding for a while, but couldn’t reallt make it happen with the weather.

It’s kind of difficult right now. The last proper dump is new a few weeks back, and the snow is… super fun to ski, but not super easy to shoot in. Too fast for pillows, and not really sun on any bigger lines. Still good times here in the Sweetgrass house! But a dump wouldn’t hurt, for sure. The sad thing is that it doesn’t seem like it’s gonna snow for a while. Bummer…

Here are some characters from this house. A lovely house. And some snow shots from the last days.

: Aidan Sheahan. The guy with the big clothes in this house.

: Jason Mannings. Filmer and local hero.

: Feet.

: And the owner – Jesse Huffman (his mom was in Aspen Extreme).

: One of the masterminds.

: Nick Waggoner.

: Sweetgrass style.

: Snow is kind of special, and there are for sure gonna be some funny layers for some time when the next dump comes.

: Greybirds…

: Su fun!

: Did some laps on my own, listening to happy music. Funfunfun.

: Went for a hike with Nick. At the start everything was fun.

: But traversing in crust kind of sucks. I got a bit angry, but…

: …was preeetty stoked on the terrain I got to see. Heaven.

: Heaven.

: Last ones to leave the mountain.

: Josse Hoffman with a bad photographed 3.

: And even worse photographed back…

: Hello.

: Looks easy.

: Jesse with perhaps the steepest turn I’ve seen.

: Ben Sturgulewski checking the result.

: Well, I COULD have taken the photo earlier, but…

: Went to the gym for some biking the other day. Next to me was a spinning maniac that made me scared.

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26
Jan 13

Pillow photo blog

So tired… But here’s a photo blog with some pillows. Read the captions to find out what we’ve been up to the last days!

Shredding pillows today was really fun. But the greatest stoke was that some people moved from the house, and I immediately moved over to the race car bed. Have been aching for it for a week... Yes!

: Shredding pillows today was really fun. But the greatest stoke was that some people moved from the house, and I immediately moved over to the race car bed. Have been aching for it for a week… Yes!

: It’s been pretty gray the last days. I kind of like it.

: Jason getting ready for another filming day.

: Hello snowflake.

: So… Are you saying it’s closed?

: Thayne shredding down to where the real shredding went down. Ok.

: Hi Jesse.

: Aidan sw1 to 1×1 m sweetspot.

: It’s kind of fun that the skiing between the shooting is just… Very entertaining. Jesse Hoffman agrees.

: Mr Sturgulewski. Expert heavy camera pack rider.

: Mr Mannings too.

: Light was so strange the other day. Couldn’t decide where we should go… We went wrong twice.

: Light…

: Camera pack pow.

: Camera pack pow 2. Those of you that know what a full RED setup + tripod weighs – be impressed.

: Aidan tapin.

: Today it was snowing again. That made me happy. Happyhappy.

: Mega wrong settings on the camera here. But it got kind of weirdcool. Almost. Aidan.

: Well… If I would have pressed the trigger earlier, you would have seen Jesse at the end of a nice pillow line.

: Easy style 3.

: Gray…

: Hi Jason. Wanna go home?

: Peter and Emma moved out of the house today. That’s sad, but now I got the race car bed = stoked! Anyway – the made dinner for us. Thanks a lot!

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24
Jan 13

Pillow shred

If you want to have fun when skiing, it seems like the trick is to not be spoiled. Here in Nelson, the locals started talking about crappy snow already a week ago. As a Swede, I’d say it’s still powder where it’s not tracked out. Ha ha. It’s not deep, and it’s fast as hell. But pretty soft! On the top…

A couple of days ago, Jesse Hoffman, Thayne Rich and Aidan Sheahan came up here to Nelson to shoot with Sweetgrass. Good with some young energy! We went for a couple of laps in the flatlight today. So here are some B&W shots:

: Macro shot of the surface hoar at the moment. So, so bad.

: Hello roof box.

: Hello slow lift. I like you.

: If I didn’t decide this would be a black and white blog, you would have seen the kind of creepy match on my skis and clothes. You can still see the creepy positioning of my logs though…

: One for fun. Nice mini golf zone.

: Two for fun.

: I guess you can call it “winter fingers”. It hurts.

: The conditions are supposed to be super safe, but today this happened. Wind I guess… Have to get a proper report tomorrow.

: Well hello.

: Three pretty stoked Americanos.

: Thayne trying to push for more speed?

: Aidan looking for the tranny.

: And fckn finally! It started snowing.

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23
Jan 13

New haircut

Well… Didn’t really get a new haircut, but tore some shit out from the back of my head.

Earlier today, it looked like something was moving in. Hopefully pow! We need it…

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21
Jan 13

Mini shred

Snow here around Nelson is reeeaaally getting hard to work with. I’ve been claiming powder for the last days, when the locals call the conditions “hardpack”. But now I actually have to admit – hardpack. We still found some good mini shred in zone not too far away today. Good fun! Jumped some cliffs, and we tried to be creative with some other stuff now when the snow ain’t blower. My bad shape kind of caught up with me though, and eight straight days of skiing seems to be enough, so probably taking tomorrow off. The Sweetgrass house get some new jib talent in the house soon though, so the filming continues with a more jiby touch.

: Scoping for takeoffs.

: Bobby. Skinning in his own way.

: Got the crane on the mountain today. It’s a lot more work, but results are cool!

: And evetually the light got good, so we did some filming. Ben shot this one of me, and I just hope I looked a little bit better after that ollie. Found a sweet tranny below those small pillows. Fun!

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18
Jan 13

Shredding moguls

Had a fun day shredding moguls with Molly Baker today. The conditions right now are fun for skiing, if you ask me. If you ask all the spoiled North Americans here, I guess they say it sucks. Ha ha. Read captions for more. I took some shots of the people hanging out in the Sweetgrass Luxury Lodge too.

: The cookie monster lives here, and he ate all the cookies except one. And then he ate that too.

: Bobby. Film dude.

: Peter. Handsome Swede.

: Zac. Sweetgrass Mastermind.

: Bartolomeus. Sweetgrass Mastermind. (?)

: Emily. Bartolomeus girlfriend and probably the most normal person in the house. In the background – Molly. Ripper, and girlfriend of Zack Giffin, that will be here in a few days, I think.

: Emma. Swedish project leader and some more. Filmmaker?

: Melinda.

: Erin. Bobby’s girlfriend. Jump rope queen (10:th at the last speed jumping World Champs).

: Dave left a sweet message on my car this morning. Aaawhh…

: Speechless… This kid OWNED the cafeteria.

: Checking out some terrain for the future. Looks good now, but the snow is way too firm…

: Oh! There was a sunset today too.

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17
Jan 13

One more film day

Had one more film day with Sweetgrass today. Our crew was a little bit smaller, and apart from filmers Bobby and Jason, it was just me and Dave (check out his blog for some more action) today.

Conditions are super fun to shred in, but I think we need a reset for the filming. Hopefully it will come!

I feels good to be skinning all day long, but my legs are starting to feel it… So tomorrowI think I’m gonna have a day in the resort, just doing laps in the moguls. Gonna be fun! And I need to get my skiing more solid too, for sure…

Here are some shots from today. If you read at Freeride.se, you need to click the pictures to read the captions.

: You’re skiing out of the picture, Dave!

: We were skinning up and down some kind of canyon/pass today. Good fun terrain on both sides, and REAL outdoor Canadian (all with dogs) passed by. Exotic…

: Dave dropping in to some pow.

: Checking terrain.

: One hit wonder. But fun!

: Dave pillowing.

: You might think Jason’s got a goofy ski style. But consider that he’s splitboarding, splitted, with the skins on. Bad ass.

: Next session.

: Next snowfall. Yum.

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16
Jan 13

Epic day in Nelson

Have been an epic day here in Nelson today. Started off a little slow, but ended really nice! Sweetgrass‘ filmer Jason, and still sharp shooter Max Lowe, got some good shots, and I got tired as hell.

Really stoked on a lot of my new gear, but I think the most comes out of the new Tecnica boots I started using – the Cochise 130 Pro. It’s the first boot I have with walk mode. I’ve always just had regular boots before. But… Jesus… Such a big difference uphill, and… NO difference downhill. Just the way it should be!

Early wake up call tomorrow, so I should probably clean up my teeth and go to bed…

: Nice light on the skin out from the ski area.

: Quite a posse heading out…

: Jason pretty stoked on the light.

: Skinning into eternity…

: Hello backdrop. The light got warmer through the day. CJ doing some laps.

: Hello fog.

: And the light got better…

: Jason skinning up.

: Ridiculous…

: Dave pretty stoked.

: So stoked he threw this huge backflip!

: Uh…

: Time to go home?

: Last shot of the moon…

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15
Jan 13

Started filming with Sweetgrass

So. Today was the first day of filming here in Nelson/Whitewater. Don’t know if I mentioned it, but that’s the reason I’m here – to shoot with Sweetgrass Productions, and I’m very, very happy for this. I think their trailer (below), is just… So next level good.

Anyway. Had a sweet day, even though the snow wasn’t waist deep. Haven’t really been skiing as much as I thought I would have at this point, so basically everything is extremely fun. And, I’m “a bit” less spoiled with deep pow that the other guys here.

The nice North Americans also gave me a nickname – Melinda. Thank you!

If you’re reading at Freeride.se, you have to click the photos to read the captions.

: This morning. Very, very exotic for a Swede.

: Outfit of the day. This was before I got my ski boots on. She was also shredding after I took them off. Cool old lady.

: I pretty much missed every single shot today. Don’t know why… But… I guess you can se that the terrain looks nice!

: Another miss.Wtf?!

: Skinning to some more sweet terrain.

: Jason getting the angle.

: Molly Baker’s home mountain is Mount Baker, and I guess she’s used to deeper pow. Happy anyway though!

: It was a cold night…

: Hello there.

: Time to go home…

: Skied this yesterday. Good fun!

: Ben telling us about his “What is I would be a pet in an alien house”-ideas. Emily seems a bit sceptic…

: “Hi there. I stepped in, and had to clean up, you piss today. Can you please do that outside next time? Thank you.”

: One of the other filmer’s girlfriend is visiting. She’s a jump-roper (10:th in the world in speed jumping), and these videos she showed us – next level goddammit!

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14
Jan 13

Canada?!

Yeah, I kind of ended up in Canada now… We’ll, I think it’s easiest if you just click the photos and read the captions… First some shots from our last days in Hasliberg last week.

: “Whaaat?! I’m just walking my donkey in town a bit.” Haslital have some characters…

: Characters… Lift guard.

: Miniature. You can see the next resort – Frutt – from the top of Hasliberg.

: The snow was a bit “challenging”, as you can see. But this wave was still so fun to ride! Matilda agrees.

: Ok. Lets go home.

: Last day in Hasliberg, we went touring with Teddy from Hasliguides.ch. Awesome guy! Super calm. We had a good day with him, even if the conditions were tricky…

: Last thursday I went to The North Face in Lugano to pick up some samples and have some turbo meetings. Here’s Masha and Chiara. Good people.

: Went from Lugano to meet up with Mr Blizzard. He gave me two pair of the new skis. Pretty frickin awesome! In my right hand is the new Gunsmoke, that’s in 193. Sweet!