I just got back from a 10-day trip to Andermatt. Antti Zetterberg already wrote an excellent review of the Andermatt ski resort after the last season. So, I have not much to add  - in this post I concentrate more on the thoughts and feelings from the trip. I also added a gallery of some photographs we took. (scroll [...]

Have you been looking for a good avalanche book? You can stop searching because Tony Daffern’s Backcountry Avalanche Safety is absolutely the best one available. I read the book. Check what I think about it.

Damn! Russian Adventure of Freeride World Tour was postponed due to risky snow condition. Hopefully riders got a chance to enjoy very nice powder skiing. Check out also Glen Plake’s video reports straight from Russia!

The Freeride World Tour was initiated in 2008 and consecrated by the participation of the world’s elite freeriders: men, women, skiers and snowboarders alike. They tour the planet’s most radical faces in pursuit of the world freeride title. This year the winner get +$200,000.

Freeride World Tour season 3 begins in Sochi (Russia) and is followed by competitions in Chamonix (France), Squaw (USA) and Verbier (Switzerland). Crazy action guaranteed!

Anniina Karvinen is a pro female snowboarder and this is her update from the Freeride World Tour in Squaw, USA.

The results and summary of the first day of the FWT in Sochi, Russia.

As the competition was not held today, last night there was some partying going on. Most everybody, including the riders and the crew, gathered to a restaurant called Trikoni in Krasnaya Poliana ski resort for a dinner and some drinks. The place was quite nice and the food was excellent. I did not stay that [...]

Kaisa is a Finnish snowboarder who takes part in the Freeride World Tour… in this interview she talks about her life and how she ended up becoming a snowboarder

The newest Nuit de la Glisse trailer is here!

Miracles do happen, as this story shows. A while ago Marko wrote how there have been a couple of really sad skiing events during this season – the death of freeskier Billy Poole and the horrible crash of Matthias Lanzinger. Also downhill skier Scott Macartney had another scary fall in Kitzbühel but was very lucky [...]