About
Hi there fellow skier!
Nice that you stopped by, I hope you enjoy Homeboy’s World of Skiing. Why this blog? Well, me and my mates are very enthusiastic alpine and backcountry skiers. Ok, at least we used to be. We used to live our dreams by skiing fabulous and stunning mountain faces in many countries. We all started skiing as little kids and we spent our youth by skiing every single weekend. As grown-ups we used to travel together and spend the ski seasons in the “skiing headquarters” such as Chamonix and La Grave. We used to share the deep powder fields together with our true friends, we climbed steep mountain faces just to ski them down and we spent numerous nights in the mountains watching millions of stars above us. Together we lived our dreams and we enjoyed skiing 100%.
Time goes on and we got older. Most of us already got little skiers who require lots of time. We became proud fathers. At the same time many of us put a lot of effort into a career, which forced us to cut down most of our hobbies. We got married with our careers. Sounds good? Not? No, doesn’t sound that good at all. This is the point where we got enough and decided take our old dusty skis and rush back to the mountains. No, not to the backcountry and couloirs, because our little skiers follow behind. Now we ski with our kids on slopes, but every now and then we go and get some faceshots in the glorious powder fields. Life burns in our veins..
The primary reason for setting up this blog was to “feel being back in skiing scene”. It feels nice to write about skiing and share our thoughts and experiences with readers. Homeboy’s World of Skiing provides you ski related reading, such as tips & tricks, road-trip stories, movie and book reviews, gear reviews, resort reviews and news. All written by very experienced and enthusiastic skiers. We focus on providing you valuable reading on skiing.
Now you know the story. It is time to introduce us.
Homeboy’s World of Skiing is written by experienced skiers and riders
Homeboy’s World of Skiing was founded on autumn 2007. We wanted to share our thoughts with other skiers worldwide, but soon we realized that our blog is becoming the most popular skiing blog in the Internet. On early 2008 we decided to take this seriously and create a valuable website for people interested in skiing. Writing our blog is really something we love to do, in addition to skiing, of course. Read next few words of our backgrounds and specialities.
Founders:
Marko Pyhajarvi – traditional alpine skiing and ski racing
Marko is an old-school alpine skier and enthusiastic blogger who wants to share his experiences and thoughts with thousands of other skiers worldwide. He enjoys alpine ski racing, backcountry and powder skiing as well as photographing skiing. Nowadays, as an old fart, he mostly goes skiing with his children and focuses in financing their (damn expensive!) hobbies.
Marko Pyhajarvi is the founder and strategic leader of this blog. If you are interested in advertising or building a partnership with us, don’t hesitate to contact us. Marko is the responsible for marketing and co-operation with vendors and other entrepreneurs. As a writer Marko focuses mostly in alpine skiing racing, training, skiing with kids, photographing, resorts and backcountry skiing.
Janne Niini – new-school skiing and gear reviews
Janne is a former (not-so-competitive) mogul-skier who nowadays enjoys many aspects of snow-gliding: alpine, telemarking and occasional snowboarding too. Janne has two small daughters and like Marko he is very happy to take them to skiing in the near future.
Janne tries to keep up some with the new school crowd but finds out that he sucks more and more every year, and his style is more and more out dated. Anyway, he keeps trying as long the aging body allows.
As a writer of Homeboy’s World of Skiing Janne focuses on freestyle skiing, equipment innovations and ski resorts. Janne’s special favorite is skiing in Slovakia, where he spent several months in 2003 and 2004. All and all he’s interested in skiing in so called exotic places (another favorite being Chile where Janne traveled in summer 2002.)
Other writers:
Juho Karhu – backcountry skiing, resort and gear reviews
Juho is of a younger skier generation than Janne and Marko. No children, no steady eight-to-five work schedule and no other real duties to fill means over hundred days of skiing each season.
What do people say about Homeboy’s World of Skiing?
We have received lots of positive feedback, and we are very happy to provide people useful reading on skiing. Receiving such positive feedback really motivates us writing articles and developing our blog. Here are few feedback messages we have received.
Sarah said on September 29th. 2008
“I used your website for a school assignment, and this winter I went skiing and someone pulled a ligament in their ankle. Using the knowledge on your website i was able to help! thanks so much!”
E-mail feedback (translated from Finnish)
“Thank you for your stunning review! Nobody would buy [magazine x] if you would start printing your own.
There were more facts in that one post than you could find in ten years archives of the mentioned [magazine x], regarding any kind bikes.”
Feedback from www.relaa.com discussion forum (translated from Finnish)
“Great story, and I think your English is just fine. Thanks to both writer and the person interviewed. I miss that kind of stories from [Magazine Y]. I had to quit my subscription when the magazine turned out to be just an ad catalog. Keep up the good work!”
E-mail feedback (translated from Finnish)
“[Magazine Z] should follow you guys and learn how to write interesting and useful articles. Unfortunately that magazine has become pretty lousy nowadays.”
This is it! Now you know us. Keep on reading our skiing articles and provide your feedback whenever you feel like. Your feedback is very welcome! Join our competitions and post comments. If you are interested in writing your own article in our blog, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are always open for your true stories from the world of skiing.
Rock on!
