Summer!

Hello everyone, finally we got some great summer back home in Sweden. Time for recreation and getting in shape for the next winter, and of course having lots of fun at the same time, here around Fiskartorpet in Stockholm. Hejs Svejs / Sverre
Photo Alex Klun

Carl Larsson

We had a great workshop at Carl Larsson gården this weekend. Best beanie design was the theme. We got a lot of nice funny drawings from a broad range of people from 8 to 50 years old. The winning design will be a Kask beanie for next fall and we are excited on that, winner will be announced here very soon.

Calle Larsson gården Lördag

Kaj och Sverre kommer hänga på Carl Larsson gården i Sundborn och virka på Lördag. Ta en titt här för mer info: www.clg.se

Ak first day

We woke up to a perfect day with blue sky and no wind. We went out in the heli early morning to start looking for good runs, it looked easy with all the beautiful mountains, but it was not. The days before we arrived it had been hard winds which had hammered the snow into hardpack. We flew really deep into the mountain range and found some good stuff. In my first run i had great powder, on the top stomped a cliff and then straight lined out, second run I found my way threw a really cool and steep glacier although the snow was shitty. Third run I lined up a little bit more difficult line, it all looked like good powder snow  and the first turns was great but then the snow got harder and harder. Jumping a cliff in the middle I gained to much speed in the landing and got out of control trying to slow down. I did some ballet moves and in the end i twisted my knee badly. That was it for me I packed my things and flew back home to see a knee specialist.

Valdez

Finally it´s time for the highlight of the year, a trip to AK and valdez. I flew in this morning and it was sunny and beautiful and the weather report looks great for tomorrow so we will get out there and see what the snow is like. I am here with the Salomon team and Matchstick productions so the riders is Mike D, Mark Abma and me. Yea its gonna be so much fun:-)

Borgafjäll karate session

Im now on another film trip in northern sweden, in borgafjäll this time! Here me and Johan Jonsson had a jib session with snowman "Boris", and heads were  rolling...

That´s it from Mica this time

Im leaving Mica today, after a great week with some really good memories. Stay tuned on www.nikeacg.com for more pics, clips and hopefully an awesome Sweetspot film from this trip, it should be online in the early fall :-)

Mica Heli Guides

Report from Mica Heli Guides, CANADA

After a pretty crazy season with a lot of traveling and a lot of free skiing competitions I’m now in Canada at the Mica Heli Guides lodge.

I’m here to ski some nice big mountain stuff, and finally let the Jah Love skis play in the right element!

I’m here with Nike ACG. I feel so fortunate being here, heli skiing some of the best terrain in the world. We are a very small crew, Myself as the athlete, Sasha from Wink Inc as a filmer, Seb as a still photographer and Spencer Francey from Chasing Winter Productions as the location
producer.

To get here is a little adventure by it self. I was flying from Stockholm Sweden, where I live, to Calgary via Frankfurt. After that you drive about five hours west, passing Revelstoke and until the road ends at the Mica dam.

Parking the car and loading the heli, flying into the unknown wilderness. The Mica Heli Lodge is located by the foot of the mountains, with a killing view filled with water and mountains, wow!

We have now been flying for three days, and the snow is great. The only issue for us, and it’s a BIG issue, is that there is a bad snow layer, about 80cm down under the fresh powder, that is very unstable. This means that the avalanche situation is forcing us to stay in the lower areas, and unfortunately we have to leave the big lines in the higher areas untouched…

I was here two years ago, and it was the totally opposite, to warm and wet to ski the lower stuff, so we had to fly far into the higher lines and glaciers to find the powder snow. That’s the way it is sometimes, you have to play with the rules by Mother Nature…

That’s kind of hard to deal with, since I have been traveling half the world to come here to ski some big lines, but what can you do?
Instead we have put our focus on pillow lines in more safe terrain, which is great! Skiing pillows is every skiers dream I think. The ones here is perfect, but at this time a little bit to hard to charge full on, but I’m sure Seb´s got some pretty nice stills on this trip for sure.

Anyway, tomorrow we are hoping for great weather again, Seb spotted a pretty crazy line today that I doubt anyone has ever skied before. I’m hoping to
to leave this trip with a first decent under my belt ☺/Sverre

Engelberg

So I went for two days shooting with Freeradicals in Engelberg. It was me and Slange Loo, Johan Jonsson as riders and the famous Bergman behind the camera. We were so lucky with the snow, amazing!! I scooped this line the first thing I did, and I know my skiing buddy Per Huss tried to nail it a couple of years ago. So, day two I was ready for it, and Jesper with the still camera and Bergman with the filmcamera did their job, as well as I :-) Photc cred by Jesper Molin

Another magic moment...

I went visiting Chamonix last week, and it was great! Snowing a lot, so I went out one day with friend and great photographer Alex Klun.
In Le Tour we skied all day, together with Stian Hagen, and made some nice left/right turns :-).
After that a 3 course lunch in Argentiere, back home to grab the flash and up to Brevent, where we tried for hours to get the evening light. This pic shows the 5 min of light we got, then the clouds came in... But for sure it was a magic moment up there, all by our selves, and it was for sure worth the hike back down in the dark!

L8r/Sverre

Asle

Our kask friend Asle Tangvik took February off from his work at Sykkeldelisk in Oslo. He went to Zillertal Austria and was lucky with good weather and powder. Asle did some filming with the Schnabelkäse productions so we are looking forward to see his part to the fall. Asle is talented with extra good balance and is only skiing on one leg, very impressive. You will also see him compete at the norwegian freeride cup this spring, Go for it Asle.

xtreme

Yea, Kask Mask team rocked the Verbier Xtreme totally on saturday. Henrik Windstedt became World Champion by winning the whole tour. David Magnusson took third place in the Xtreme, Me (kaj) won the Xtreme by stomping my run like a flying squirrel. Sverre was really close to nail his run to after skiing super good all the way until last cliff where he went to big and blew up.Check our runs on www.freerideworldtour.com

Verbier Xtreme

Tomorrow its time for the Verbier Xtreme again. Unfortenately its not happening on the big famous face Bec de ros because the whole face went down in a big avalanche, so no snow left there. Now it will be on the Mont gele, today we have been checking it out with our binoculars chosing our lines. It feels great. Live broadcast at www.freerideworldtour.com

bigmountainpro

Last week the Kask Mask Team skied in the bigmountain pro. The week started out supernice with first a crazy big run in chamonix and then directly day after another run outside verbier which was more narly and rocky but cool. After that the pow snow was finished and so the comp. We did really good, from left on picture, David 10th (snowboard), Sverre 9th, Henke 5th (leader of the world tour) Kaj(behind camera) 1st place so you can easily say that the kask mask kicks ass, tjihoo.

Switzerland

Last week I went filming in Switzerland. Ok conditions, a lot of sun but not that much fresh powder snow... Waiting for more, this week back home in Sweden, next week there is the BigMtnPro starting in Chamonix, France.
All Best Sverre

ISPO

Kask goes to the big ISPO tradeshow in Munich! We will have a stand in hall A1 so if you are there come and visit us, if you are lucky you maybe even get a hotdog.

SAAB

Finally a car made for skiers! I went to detroit and was part of the presentation of the new SAAB 94x Biiopower. It has build in skirack and ventilated boot compartment, biopower engine and xross wheel drive that gets you where you want.Yep its all good/kaj

Gerlos, Austria!

Servas!

I have been one week in Gerlos, Austria, shooting pictures with Mattias Fredriksson.
We were a nice crew, with Mattis taking pics, Fred Arne as a filmer, me, Henrik Windstedt and Jon Larsson, hanging out.
It´s a cool little town about an hour from Innsbruck, close to Mayerhofen. So now season is full on, and now Im on my way to Qualifier for the World Tour in Mammoth, wish me luck! All best to all of  you riders!

Hemsedal

Yea Finally I got a great day of powderskiing, I went to Hemsedal norway this weekend and the snow laid deep and dry on the mountain. I was guided by locals around in gummiskogen all day and it was awesome skiing the famous threeruns. It is still snowing in Hemsedal so if you get a chance, go there.

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IN RÄTTVIK

Today we got to see these four talented "run-way" models at Sörlins Sport in Rättvik. It's becoming a tradition to see these skiing youngsters popping up in the store window the first sunday of december, to show off what's hip for the winter season.
Products on picture, from left: Sjöhäst lambswool hood, Surfer beanie, Fruitsalad maniac ziphood, Lucy lime, Fruitsalad Maniac ziphood, Sköldpadda yellow, Square Ziphood, Träd brown.

WWF

Kask went for a meeting with the super nice organisation WWF. We want to work closer with them and help raising money for their projects around the globe. Hopefully we will have a Kask/wwf beanie in stores soon. WWF has the goal to create a planet where humans live in harmony with nature.

Magnus & Åssy

Skate at Fiskartorpet!

The oter day I went to our Kask mini ramp at Fiskartorpet in Stockholm for a skate session with friends Alx and Jon. We cleared the ramp from leafs and had a nice little evening skate!

Surfing in Hossegor with X Travel

Hi! Just came back from a great surf trip in France. It was my friend Eric at X Travel who organized the trip, and the setup was sick! We stayed in his house, about 16 persons, and had about 200m walking to the beach. Surfing 6 days out of 7, perfect pre season training. Check out more at www.xtravel.se
Now Im back in Stockholm and waiting for the big fall storms to hit Torö for more waves ;-).

Jon Örarbäck, in the picture from one night session in Hossegor, went out on his board every day, with a broken femar..., good healing to him, and he kicked ass on his stomach!

Chris Davenport

Our kask family member Chris Davenport has done some amazing first descents in Alaska this summer. He hang out on the mountain Denali all of june where he climbed and skied it five times and three lines was never skied before, con gratulations Chris.Right now Chris is down in Portillo in Chile skiing and organising a freeride camp. He is probably making a powder turn while you are reading this!