Do you live your life 110% or do you wish to live so? Skipe Oivo is a freeskier who quit school in order to become a full-time skier, and he succeeded. Today Skipe is not only the most experienced freeskier in Finland, but also a member of the K2 Factory team, just like Seth Morrison. Check out this in-depth story on Skipe Oivo.

“Wild boy” Bode Miller is back with US Ski Team. Bode cut his relationship with US Ski Team 2007, but has now rejoined. Is he going to win tomorrow in Levi? Probably not, but it is great to have him back. Check out the press release video and another a bit “different Bode Miller” video.

The flat country of Finland has created a bunch of enthusiastic freeskiers, check out the latest creation of some of them, the 20 minute long Virne freeride flick.

Written by our guest writer Markku Rimpiläinen this article offers a sneak-peek in the 70s freestyle skiing, complete with some oldschool photos!

Wow! Ever heard of a saunagondola? Check this out. There is a real saunagondola ski lift in Finland! This is pure craziness!

About a week ago I received a phone call from Keski-Uusimaa newspaper journalist. He wanted to do an interview of us to the local newspaper. “Yeah, why not“, I said. Our story was published on Saturday morning, and it reserved more than half a page. This kind of publicity is nothing but good for us, [...]

…Now go out and play!
I just recently bumped into that slogan, as a “signature” of a bike event organizer (in an internet discussion forum, suprise). I liked it so much that I selfishly stole it for my own purposes here; writing about outdoor sports in the internet can feel pretty stupid at times… What the [...]

Yesterday I wrote a review article of Chamonix. I have been skiing in Chamonix since 1997, almost yearly, and more often than in my local ski resort here in Finland. Chamonix is a great place to ski, especially for so called ski bums. Why do we go skiing so far from Finland? Read this ski [...]

This is a Doomsday article. Climate change is going to kill skiing industry. The amount of snow in this planet will decrease day by day until skiing in most of the countries is impossible. This is how I see it and it is based on real-life experience. Period.
Am I over-reacting? Maybe, maybe not. The fact [...]

Kalle Palander won the giant slalom race in Alta Badia in last weekend. This was not the first victory for Palander who has already won the world cup of slalom in 1999. Kalle Palander has won several races and had been in the top of alpine skiing for many years. Now, who is [...]

Recently ago I wrote five good reasons to ski in Finland. Let’s now think about it other way round. I give you five good reasons NOT to ski in Finland. It’s nice to live in here in Finland, and we have pretty good ski resorts here in Finland, but there are also good reasons not [...]

Yesterday I discussed about the top five ski resorts in Finland. As I said yesterday, there are few good ski resorts in Finland providing family skiing, backcountries, pretty active nightlife as well as some new-school type of skiing facilities. I recommended spending your next skiing holidays in Finland, but I did not say why. In [...]