April powder in the Wheeler Wilderness!
Backcountry season is now in full swing! I didn't get to ski as much this season because I had a baby in December, but these earned turns were worth the wait! The best turns I've had this season. Keep 'em coming!
K2 Dawn Patrols do the job in new April powder! Skiing the NW face of Sin Nombre in New Mexico.
Spring frenzy in Tamok, Norway
Tamok is an beautiful area in North Norway which has a lot of offer for a backside skier. Touring here in the spring is exceptionally fun because of the 24 hours of light. Powder snow doesn't make the place worse either.
Botnskartinden in Tamok has runs up to 1500 vertical meters and plenty of first descents if you're up for that kind of stuff.
North Norway offers over 1000 meter runs all the way to the sea. This is from Skulvatindane, Lyngen (Norway).
Silky snow in early May. Skulvatindane, Lyngen.
Just cruising in Rasmustinden, Lyngen.
I'm about to drop in to the North side of Blabarfjellet.
Last week I was shooting a movie for Norwegian ski clothing brand Missing Link in Tamok, Norway. Movie production is my bread and butter and I don't mind if people want to benefit for my combined skiing & shooting skills.
There was two Missing Link teamriders, Lars Fidjestol and Dennis Risvoll. Fred Syversen was appering in the film as the special quest star. You might remember Fred from making accidental 107 meter (351 feet) cliff drop World Record in 2008.
Conditions were just perfect for shooting. Light pow on North / NE / NW facing sides of mountains. Days are long and mountains get golden alpenglow which lasts longer than in the Alps.
When things are too well something is bound to happen. So it did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsGIlZKygoE
Fred Syversen chose a line where falling was out of question. Right before first of three jumps he was surrounded by snow sprayed by helicopter.
Luckily all is well now and we all have plenty of ski days left.
Regards from Arctic Circle
Jani Johansén, K2 Backside Team Telemarker.
photos: Aadne Olsrud, Jarkko Henttonen, Panu Jyra
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Roman´s big fall! ski accident in austria!
Hey guys
After a few days in hospital, surgery, MRI´s, X-ray´s and a lot of pain, I´m finally at home in the chillervalley! 2 weeks after Alaska and Kamp K2, we decided to ski the famous, highest mountain in Austria, the "Großglockner". There is a really steep (55°) Couloir from the top of the mountain, called "Pallavicini". The conditions were much worse than we expected. The first 100 meters we had to rope in, because it wasn´t possible to ski. At the point where we wanted to start skiing, suddenly rocks came down. It was super sketchy, because you couldn´t really move! So i decided to drop in and ski out of that dangerous zone! In the middle of the gully I hit a rock and lost my ski! Damn! After that I fell more than 1000feet, tomahawking approximately 30 times over rocks. At the end I had a free fall of 160feet! I was rescued by the helicopter - with the rope! Yeah, thx god that I´m alive. Season over, happy that I´m still able to walk!!!cheers
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