There are thousands of steep and gnarly extreme ski descents, but one of them is classic. Jarkko Henttonen did the legendary north face of l’Aiguille du Midi via Mallory-Porter couloir few years ago. We sat down with Jarkko to hear more about riding Mallory-Porter, and here’s the whole story.

The famous snowboarders’ gear can now be borrowed at Kuinoma.com, a Finnish website and a community that wants to promote renting and borrowing instead of buying and consuming.

Jarkko Henttonen, judge at the Freeride World Tour, sums up the first competition day and tells about the great tree runs that Sochi offers..

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 [...]

This came in just few minutes ago from our man Jarkko Henttonen on the Freeride World Tour. Jarkko works as a competition judge on the tour and reports to Homeboy Ski blog throughout the world tour. Read what Jarkko has to say after the second day in Krasnaya Poliana.

New snow in Krasnaya Poliana
Today was [...]

This came in just few minutes ago from our man Jarkko Henttonen on the Freeride World Tour. Jarkko works as a competition judge on the tour and reports to Homeboy Ski blog throughout the world tour. Read what Jarkko has to say after the first day in Krasnaya Poliana.
Freeride World Tour starting in Krasnaya Poliana [...]

Freeride World Tour, the biggest freeride contest in the world, is soon starting with qualifiers. Riders for the Freeride World Tour are going to be qualified in the following nine independent freeride events.

1. THE NORTH FACE MASTERS SNOWBIRD (USA), 30 January – 2 February, snowboard only, sister events of the Nissan Tram Face – Squaw [...]

Some more pictures of Jarkko Henttonen
These pictures should have gone with the interview of Jarkko Henttonen we did a few days ago. However, because we are lazy and don’t want to edit the previous article anymore, a new post will do. And I guess these deserve it anyway?
Photographer Petri Kovalainen
Petri Kovalainen is a professional photographer who specializes [...]