Canada: Rogers Pass & Whitewater backcountry
Greetings. The past week and a half has treated us pretty well. A friend was able to book a vacation house for cheap at Radium Hot Springs, just south of Banff and Glacier National parks in British Columbia, so we joined in to share the house. During the winter Radium Hot ...
Japan – Endless Powder
Ville will be reporting regularly from Japan on Homeboyski.com during this winter. This is the start of the "series", with a recap of the last two weeks. This text has been translated from Finnish to English by Juho Karhu, and edited where needed for non-Finnish audience. The original text can ...
Joonas Karhumaa – The Best Telemarker in The World?
Joonas Karhumaa is probably the best telemarker in the world. Here it is, I said it. Joonas is not a stick chaser nor a pure jibber, so there might be a few guys that are a bit faster or spin and land even crazier, more technical tricks. But for an all-around ...
Canada, Canada: Touring at Kootenay Pass
Escaped from Montana to Canada for the rest of the season. There's a lot more snow here in BC, even though we did manage couple good days around Missoula too. Laura in Montana Snowbowl some time after New Year Arrived to Nelson at night, woke up at the hostel to blue skies ...
Seth Morrison Interview
People talk to radio phones, helicopter pilots start their engines, film crew performs final equipment check.. A big mountain skier looks down the line he is about to ski. Few minutes are needed to focus and prepare, and then he drops in.. Rockered skis dive deep in the fresh powder ...
Armada JJ Ski Review
Last spring I got a chance to do Armada JJ ski review in Ramundberget ski resort, Sweden. I tested Armada JJ skis on various platforms, and here's my take on this interesting skis. If you wish, check here first basic information of the reviewer. Armada JJ has tip and tail rocker ...
6 Days of Skiing Powder in October in Tyrol, Austria
Snow in October is not really unusual in the Alps, but when it snows the snowline is usually very high up. This time it snowed more or less straight for 6 days all the way to the valley and at least us skiers got very excited... The first storm came in ...
Riding the North Face of L’Aiguille du Midi via Mallory-Porter Couloir
What makes some of us risk their lives by searching for extreme ski descents? What is so magnificent with riding steep and narrow couloirs high on the mountains? "If there's no risk, there's no adventure", says Bill Briggs who was the first to ski Grand Teton. Bill was later named as ...
K2 Extreme 179cm and Marker Jester SchizoFrantic Long Time Ski Review – Part I, Park and Jumps
Few weeks ago we got a new test pair, K2 Extreme 179cm, from www.suksikauppa.com for a long time ski test. It took a few weeks before I got the binding mount done and finally got to give the ski/binding combination some real action. What got our initial interest in this particular ski-binding ...
