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The Alps

kaj — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The good times crew is back on the roads threw the alps looking for powder snow and a good laugh. We are filming for a new episode to the Salomon freeski tv and so far we found really good skiing with powder to our ears,,, On the picture kask friend Chris Rubens is enjoying life in Limone/Italy. Now we just arrived in the dolomites so we will see what we find here. Ciao Kaj

Asle

Asle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi folks!

Now we are in the second week of our tour de alps. So far we've been in some different places, mostly we have hade a lot of sunshine and not too much powder. Still we have had some really good times.

At the moment we are sitting in the café of Nangijala in Disentis and look at the snow falling from the sky nicely. So perhaps our powder dancing has been registered. We’re going to be down in the Alps to March 15.

Have not been skiing any quite spectacular yet, but have a few days with some small drops and some crashing.
Sending some photos that one of the guys we have traveled with have taken, he do not work as a photographer, but learned, however, that when you run the rocks are gray clothes may not be the smartest! So the next time it is photo time I take my colorful clothes out.
Sincerely,

Asle

Squaw Valley

Sverre — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi folks!

After skiing Squaw a couple of days, it was time for the the 3rd stop of the freerideworldtour.

We were supposed to ski the Tram face, but it was scstchy condisions there and a big slide, so we couldnt go there this time.

Sweden was killing it this event, Henrik won, Reine 3rd, Kaj 5th and myself ended up 9th.

Some locals here edited a cool segment from the Silverado competition, check it out HERE :-)

/Sverre

ispo

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Ispo Tradeshow wow it was a lot of talking going on but really stoked people and good wibes so we had a nice time. It was cool for us to be back and present our line for the export markets. Harrods department store from London visited our booth and tasted our Hotdogs and choosed their Kask range for next year.
Check out our next years line here, freeride.se and friflyt.no

Christine

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,Hej,

I hope everything is great!Hoppas allt är bra!

Im down in the alps for some freeride comps, but the first one was cancelled due to bad weather :-(. Then I went to St Moritz and skied the Engadin Snow, but crasched... Shit happens, now Im back in Engelberg riding every day, great! Today Im resting since I crasched my eye in the knee yesterday, so Im down resting with a hurting knee and a pretty stiff neck...
Keep up the good spirit!

/Christine

stop 2

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday the postponed russian adventure happened in Chamonix on La Flegere. It was perfect conditions with packed powder and sunshine on the short but very versitile face. The whole field skied really good and cliffs and tricks were thrown down in style. I was super happy with my run and got 5th place, Sverre skied a nice steep line with big double drop and finished off with a backflip he got 6th place. Now we pack our car and head for ispo trade show our Kask booth is in Hall A3 stand 309 if you are there see you!
Rock on/kaj

Freerideworldtour

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Finally we got to do the first stop in the Freerideworldtour. The skies cleared up and we had some new powder on the face in Brevent.
The first riders took away a lot of the powder though and left some icy spots for the later riders. This made it very challenging, but we were strong in our heads and gave full throttle. I finished second after the legendary Candide thovex, Sverre had a very unique line on the top and jumped a huge cliff but made a small mistake in the end and finished 7th.
Our Kaskfriend Mitch toelderer won the snowboard class in his stylish Kask mask goggles.

This week we will have one more competition here in Chamonix, its the russian event that is postponed to here. It will happen first sunny day so hopefully tomorrow.

See more here, freerideworldtour
kaj

Chamonix again

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi

Now are we in Cham again. Kaj and I had a great day skiing up at Hellbrunner in the Mt Blanc massive yesterday, so nice! Long run all the way down to the tunnel on the italian side, then driving thru the tunnel back to Chamonix for a great lunch at Chambre neuf with friends. Great day!
Now we are waiting for the first competition day, hopefully saturday, go to FWT to follow the program.
Höjt! / Sverre

Wille filming in Serre Chevalier

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Got this pic from Kask Mask rider Wille Lindberg, seems like they have good conditions while filming for Free Radicals film production this week. Go big Wille ;-)

Sochi again

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

So, here we are in Sochi again, for the 3rd time in three years. I was traveling in Switzerland in early january, and Kaj was in Chamonix, now we hooked up for the first stop of the freerideworldtour, here in Russia.
Its great to be here, to hook up with friends and get ready for the event, here in the picture its Kaj, me, Jon Örarbäck and Jerk Looman, the original Swedish Posse :-)
But it's a little bit hard to know what will happen now with the event, it has been raining to the top for two days, and its really not so much snow as it usually is here in the resort of Krasnaya Polyana... I will keep my fingers crossed for snow and hopefully at least one run for the comp later in the week.
Priviet! / Sverre

Short news from Kask friend Jonas Hagström

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Got this from Jonas, follow this link to see what is happening to their posse at http://blog.protest.eu/trips/snowtour/

Aosta

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

See when we enjoy the italian powder in the Aosta valley on the new episode of SalomonFreeskitv

Antarctica

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

ANTARCTICA A TRIP OF A LIFE TIME.

Stian and I just returned to chamonix after a long journey back to Chamonix from Antarctica. I have started to look through some of the images and diary entries from my time down in Antarctica and it was truly a trip of a life time, my best trip ever! We had so much luck with the weather with the majority of our time down there was sunny so we got a lot of skiing in. The team was awesome, it was great to be in the mountains with Chris Davenport and Stian and we all worked really well with the camera crew, which have come back with so many awesome images from our time there.

Antarctica has so much going for it, it is so remote and far away that it remains a hidden gem, the beauty and uniqueness of this place is difficult to compare to anything I have seen before. The mountain range on the Antarctic Peninsula is so extensive and vast it was not easy to choose where to go. And we were able to find runs that allowed us to ski to the ocean floor. We also saw lots of wildlife, whales, dolphins, penguins and seals. And not to mention the icebergs, they were unlimited, even coming into hassel the boat while we were sleeping.

I feel so lucky to have been able to travel down with such a great boat- the Australis which is skippered by two awesome hosts which made our trip very special. They took on almost all our requests and made them happen and to add to this Skye took great care of us and cooked outstanding meals every night.

I have come away from this trip with a new energy for skiing. From the ski descents I have done down there I found myself challenged on some very steep and icy terrain and had such a great rush from being able to keep my head together and overcome my fear and get up and down safely on some really exposed terrain. I found that all my years in the mountains were put to a test down in Antarctica. As this place is so remote there was no room for error.

It has put me in a new frame of mind of want to ski in the future. I really enjoy the challenges that I faced both on the approach climbing up and with and the rush that you get from the accomplishments of getting down safely. I have to admit that my husband Stian took great care of me looking out for all the small details and his confidence in me helped me enormously. And to be out there with Chris Davenport was awesome, we made a great team. We have all walked away with so many incredible images- what a great way to begin the winter. The film and magazine stories are going to be awesome.

I will be putting up my diary entries from the peaks we skied up on my website and I have attached some of the amazing shots that we got from Antarctica that we took down there.

Photographers: Chris Davenport, Doug Workman, Scott Simper, Stian Hagen- thank you for letting me use the shots!
/Andrea

Still great snow!

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Still great snow in Switzerland! This is part of one of many great photos
Oskar Enander took of me and Johan Jonsson yesterday, I really like the january light in the early season. Follow my blog here and Johans here.
Ciao / Sverre

Deep in Engelberg

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everybody! Now it´s been dumping here in Engelberg, and we have been skiing really good cold powder for two days. I have been out with Kask Mask team member Johan Jonsson, who took this pic of me, just one of hundred powderturns yesterday :-)
Ciao / Sverre

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR
:-D

NZ christmas wishes :-)

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

We just recieved this Merry Christmas picture from our friend Rob, who's spending the holidays back in his home country, New Zealand. Rob's son's Olle and Ruben are here proudly hanging out in their Kask caps together with this strong man from the Ngapuhi tribe at north island.
So merry christmas from New Zealand, Kask is spreading some love in the south pacific :-D

Chamonix

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Back in cham and nice as always, aint to much snow yet but put on our skins and went up on Helbronner and got some really nice powder turns. The toula glacier is in good shape and their is no people around so if you go
the pow is for you.

Johan Jonsson

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

News from Engelberg, Powder for the people :-)
Johan sent a bunch of nice pictures taken by the great photographer and friend Oskar Enander, it seems like the Kask Mask 2 goggles is working out well...
Oskar has of course Copyright of this pic, if you want to contact him or just go to his web and look at his stuff, please go to www.oskarenander.com
Visit Johans website and follow his blog this winter!

Hemsedal

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just had a fantastic week in Hemsedal/norway, they already have a good base and on top of that its powder. It was so fun to be back in the deep pow i had smile as wide that mick jagger would be jealous! its still snowing up there so if you have the possibility you better go i think they have the best conditions in europe right now. /kaj

Kask Mask Teamrider Christine

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Feels good to be back on skiis again. I went up to Tandådalen for the skitest weekend and then visited my sister in Trysil.
A lot of actvities during the week. Except from really nice skiing, I tried the flowrider, practised some gymnastics, had a bath, and of course some sauna, the gym, and baking Norwegian "Stomp" bread=) my sister are kind of hyperactive, and at the moment I have quiet sore muscles.

Back in town and apart from a computer crash I'm in good mood and finally I have one ihpone!!!

Picture- Nice view in Trysil

Christine

Wille is happy

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Got a pic from Kask Mask Team Friend Wille Lindberg, he recieved his stuff for the season, stoked! :-).
You will see Wille ripping around Engelberg this winter, always a (party?)-trip to Verbier and of course skiing the Freeride World tour events around the globe.
:-D

Fashion

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Had a strange experience this week, went to London with Swatch for a fashion shoot, they are doing a new campaign and i guess they believe my big nose fits the watches. It was the photographer Ian Rankin who took the shots and around him it was 20 assistants holding flashes manuevring the computers or fixing hair styles or makeup. It was cool to see how they work with the models, and kind of weird posing myself,,,

Pre season training report from Adam

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello from Oslo!
My dad always tells me that he thinks my upper part of my body is a little bit to thin.
So i´m taking every opportunity to do something about it before the winter starts for real.
This sofa is quite awesome! Perfect workout and a economic choice if you dont want to pay gold for the gym here in Oslo.
Big thanks to my friend Gran for the extra kilos.
//Adam

Shit happens!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Shit happens!

Second day of jumping didn't went very well. It went pretty good in the begining of the day, and then I slammed.
I broked my left collarbone and got some scratches on the lungs. The lung thing scared me a little bit but It wasn't so big deal with It as I thought. So now I must wait about 3-4weeks until the bone have healed, then I'm fit for fight again. So now It stands 1-0 to Bad luck, It SUCKS so hard! "but always look at the bright side of life!" =) / Niklas

/ Niklas

skiing today

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

skiing today in Duved, season opening today :-)
Always good to get things going even if its not 100% pow yet. Have a great weekend everyone/Sverre

Blogg...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello.
We are working on our website, and the new launching with webshop and stuff pretty soon :-).
But right now I will have a blog for a while at this adress http://www.glife.se/sverre

Hemsedal

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Wow this saturday we had an amazingly good day of powder skiing in Hemsedal, and so early in the season, it feels like its going to be a great year. The base of snow is already good so get yourself upthere for some nice turns around those small birch trees.

B.A.S.E

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Our adventurer Tom Erik Heimen is right now climbing and Base jumping in the Yosemites, and from what i understand he is there with some gnarly climbers that will bring him up El Capitan. We wish you the best of luck. This summer he guided JT Holmes and the 60 minutes show around norway for some base jumping, see the show here, MOVIE

Flo KÃ¶fer

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Austrian powerhouse Flo Köfer is working is way back from many knee injuries. He now lives in mountain hut on 2000 meter in the alps, eager as he is on skiing he will be ready to just klick into the bindings when the first snow will arrive. With his crew he made a skimovie last year check out the trailer, its cool to see what the austrian freeride comunity are coming up with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28lJfvN3GRc

Organic

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ifall du är ute efter ekologiska kläder kolla in den är web shopen. Du hittar även vår panda mössa som vi gör i samarbete med WWF. Heja för bra produktion.
http://www.astridgoesorganic.com/?articleId=783

Actionmediamusic

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Our multi talented Kaskfriend Jonas Hagström has now started his new company Actionmediamusic. Its for you who are looking for music to your latest project. You know how hard it can be to find music with full rights when you do your movie or other productions.

Therefor Jonas is here to help you out with his super idea. Go to actionmediamusic to find out more.

And if you think his idea is great and you live in Sweden simply vote for him to win the innovator price at guldgalan in Jämtland. Send a text/sms to no, 72063 and write: guldgalan 15

Letter from friend Jossi

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello all of you,

Summer is now long gone and it is time to focus on more important things.

In 2010 Big Dreams have a lot of new adventures to offer. Last winter we had an absolute blast when
we went heliskiing with a group in Kamchatka, Russia. Powder, volcanoes, crabs, vodka and some of the
best skiing we have ever experienced. This makes Kamchatka to a ”must go to place” 2010.

Enjoy skiing under the midnight sun in the great north of Sweden. From middle of April until end of May
we run our own heliski operation based above the Arctic Circle.

As the only Scandinavian operator, we are guiding heliskiing in the biggest mountain range on earth!
Explore beautiful Nepal and ski those legendary mountains at the same time. Week trips to Everest
or Annapurna regions are available, you can also ski them both during a two-week private trip.

Take part of Chamonix best off piste, do the Haute Route or travel to exotic places like India or Japan
to search for powder. We are here to fulfil your big dreams.

Check out our website for more information: www.bigdreams.se.

For questions & bookings, e mail us info@bigdreams.se

See you soon!

Best Regards /Johan “Jossi” Lindblom, Bigdreams

Freeski TV

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The new season on Salomon Freeski Tv is fully on, check out the episodes on this site Salomonfreeski.com enjoy the powder.

this weekend

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone again. Tonight we, me and Kaj, will be at Alpingaraget, Stockholm, from 19.30pm. We are doing a slideshow, talking about skiing and of course a little Kask. After that We are having "Kask Puzzle", come here and make your own goggles, chose strap, lens and frame yourself, and we put it together for you :-).
Same deal at NK Sport tomorrow, between noon and 15pm. Cu soon then / Sverre

As some of you might now...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

As some of you might now, I have changed clothing sponsor to SOS, Sportswear of Sweden. This month I have a campaign on their website, help me out to choose ski clothes for the first world tour competition in Russia!!! :-), Follow this link SOS Yo/Sverre

Ireland Surf

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A little "blog" from Ireland, surf trip with friends. Got some waves, this one from the famous spot at Easky. I love it., still a beginner but catching some at least :-). Four days of surfing, a little bit of golfing, and of course a taste of lager... Live a Little!
/Sverre

HeadictHeadictHeadictHeadict

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Some great news from our French friends, go to their web and check it out
www.headict.com
Have a great weekend, why not play some ping pong..?

Autumn is here

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I recieved this pic from my surfing, kiting and speedboating friend Mårten Björnsson. Now the autumn storms are starting hitting swedish coast, and surfing is picking up. It's getting a little bit colder, but in a Kask Wool Zip Hood you stay warm and cozy when chillin and preparing for your next session :-). I will leave for a little surftrip myself on monday, going to Ireland, Im so excited!
Sverre

Skiing

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Yea we are back from a great ski trip in Argentina. Seb Michaud invited me and Sverre to be part of his invitational happening in Carron Grande, which is a mountain hut in a basic style with hotsprings just outside the door. At first the snow was hard and icy but then a storm came threw and gave us some powder. We finished of with two great days and it felt unreal to ski big lines in powder in the summer year, yihaa. Then we had a classic Assado with Meat and wine.
Now we are back at the work going threw the products for 10-11, fun working.

website

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hey ya all we have been little bit slow on updating the site, its because we are so focused on re-building it. Soon you will get a new fresh site to read on, news, stories and product infos will come to you right here. Til then get in shape and be ready for a new great winter with nice toques and powder snow.
Kaj & Sverre

Married

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I got husbunized,,, Me and my lovely Benedicte got married in Chamonix, so I am almost starting to feel like a grownup,, well maybe not, but i feel really good to be a married MAN. Now i am back at work on Kask fixing and trixing as always stimulating and fun. Also preparing a trip to Argentina me and Sverre is invited to the Seb Michaud invitational so that will be awesome. Höj/kaj

May

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

May may what a month, first i got my spring depression as always when the season comes to an end. Its something weird with pushing so hard for half a year and suddenly its just over. Then i got into to skiing on Aiguille in chamonix and renovating my kitchen and of course Kask got a good grip on me with all the work it takes in a small company. Right now me and sverre are deep into designing the line for season 10-11, a lot of new styles and for sure crazy colours on toques(beanies) goggles socks shirts wool sweathers and YES we will come up with more products in the new line. yepp yepp hepp hepp talk to you soon

Swatch Catch The Moment

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hi! Just got home after a film shoot with Kaj. We were in Silvaplana CH filming with a high speed camera for a Swatch project. We had epic condisions, half a meter of fresh snow!!! No people at the mountain, what more can you ask for in early may!? Now Im back in Stockholm, spring in the air, not to bad either :-) /Sverre

Borga Heli

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Today we flew some heli in Borgafjäll. The day was epic, sooo beautiful up here! Snow was pretty hard, but still ok for riding some nice steep lines, here Johan Jonsson caught my first decent with his camera. He went out after me, and BOOM there went the whole face down behind him, pretty scary, but he skied out with no hesitation... Im sure this will be a cool little segment in the next Free Radicals skimovie witch should be out this fall. Salut Sverre

Back in Borga

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Now Im back for more action, filming for Free radicals ski movie. We are now in Borgafjäll in Sweden, trying to get some heli skiing under the belt. There is one face here witch looks great, hopefully we can pull it off tomorrow, the forecast looks promising. Our heli pilot has been super busy the last few days, he's helping the laplandic people to gather the reindeers, to move them up the mountain to give birth. More info soon :-) Ciao Sverre

PACKAT & KLART

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Kul program kommer den 13 e april!

GLAD PÅSK SÅ LÄNGE!

Kask friend Niklas Granlund

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Tjabba :)
Ja Val Thoréns. Kom dit på fredagen, vilken bjöd på ett sjukt fint efter middags väder, själv var jag så stokad bara för att vara där (i alpena för första gången) så jag var som ett litet barn i en godiskiosk!
Fredagen: första tävlingsdagen vilken bjöd på friåkning. Fransmänen visste vad dem gjorde, så de var ju många bra åkare med. Dock var de sjukt mkt flatljus så de var svårt att se alla små knölar och sånt, men jag lyckades krångla ner mig och så pass att de blev en 2a placering :)
Lördagen: då var de en sorts "safty day" där vi fick mer lärdom om Recco systemet och hur vi använde trencivers och sonder. Så de var lärorikt! de var även skitväder den dagen...
Söndag: och park, de var snöigt och dimmigt redan på morgonen, men vi åkte iaf. vi satt och väntade, tillsist så sprack de upp men de var bara tjejorna och kidsen som hann köra. då bestämde dom att teensen och vi kings skulle separera på tävlingarna och ta ut 1,2,3 för park resp friåkningen... vilket vissa tyckte var bra, vissa mindre bra...
Måndag: Park och blue bird heeela dagen, de var sjukt skönt häng i parken, hoppen bra och nivån hög! Men de gick även där bra, slutade på en 3e plats, så jag är nöjd :)
Niklas

paradise

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Oh yea we got one more sunny day. The snow was amasing and we enjoyed every moment, this was what I´ve been dreaming about. We skied everything from long spines to short aggressive lines with cliffs. The picture show one of the runs we did, with crazy hanging glacier to the left and steep nice spines on the face.

sun

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Finally the Sun arrived to Valdez and we got up in the mountains and skied a full day. We got seven runs in each and i think we got some really nice shots, because snow conditions were good as well as Me and Daisuke:-) On this picture Daisuke has just skied The Doctor Jones line, huge spines with a lot of sluf but he managed it all super nice. Now we´re jumping to bed and hopes are for one more sunny day.

Valdez

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I am hangin out downtown Valdez Alaska, I´ve been here for 5 days and yet no skiing. Its been snowing for three days so if it clears up it could be all time. My days are filled with Kask work on the computer or drawing sketches for the beanies coming 10-11 season. Of course i try to workout at least one time a day so when that sunny day comes i will be on my toes and ready to ski as hard as i want = jamming rasta viking:-) I´ll let you know what we get. I would also like to thank mcConkey for being the man he was, of course one of our most shining ski stars ever but also one of the greatest personalities I´ve ever met, thanks and keep on smiling where ever you are shane.

friend Shane McConkey R.I.P

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.mspfilms.com/news/1354

TOMORROW EARTH HOUR!!!

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

28th of march, is EARTH HOUR at 20.30-21.30!! Both me and Kaj, and of course Kask, is supporters and ambassadors for this sake. It will happen, all over the world tomorrow. All swedish visitors here on kask web, please go to wwf.se to read more about it and the swedish ambassadors!!!

FWT finals in Verbier

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend it was the finals on the Freeride World Tour, with the respectful run at the Bec de Rosses.
Condisions was not 100%, a lot of sugary snow and sharp rocks, but the show was still pretty sick, and in the ski divison Aurelien Ducroz did it the best. After winning this comp, he was also crowned Men's Ski World Champion! Big up's for Aurelien, one of our Kask friends!
The Kask team was not bad, I ended up 3rd overall in the ski, Marja Persson skied solid the whole year, finishing 2nd overall. Kaj was 7th in Verbier, and that made him qualified for the next years, top 12 ski men are in from the rankings. In the snowboard Mitch Toelderer from Austria had a wild card for Verbier, and he really took the oportunity this time. With his KASK MASK GOGGLES he was riding like crazy with one of the best lines of the day, finishing 2nd after this years unstopable Xavier de le Rue, who won.
So, that was it from the tour this season, please go to FWT for all the info, stories, video, gallery and more!

What is Kaj looking for!?

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Kaj is looking for his line at the FWT comp in Tignes... Not easy, there were almost more rock than snow at the Grand Balme this year... Unfourtunately there was some really scary accidents to, so we are keeping our fingers crossed for Jenatte Hargin SWE and Adrien Corier FRA that really ate some rock... I had a crash as well, but I hope to be back in shape again soon... Mathias "Hauni" Haunholder won the mens ski, god job! Henrik Windstedt landed 3rd and Kaj 4th, great skiing swedes! Girls ski was won by Caroline Meynet FRA, and friend Marja Persson SWE 2nd, yea haa! Now me and Kaj went to Chamonix for rehab and some office work, then off for the finals in Verbier next week. Ciao Sverre

Tignes

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Now we are in Tignes/france for the third stop on the freerideworldtour. On sunday we inspected the competition face but since then it has been snowstorm, so we are on a hold. Hopefully it happens on thursday but maybe friday. In the meantime we are skiing in the clouds and working out at the gym in the nights.

Powder day!

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Powder day! The competition day 2 didn't happen, but the snow came... 6 feet in two days! We skied some epic powder, and that was a great finish of this trip! Here is Kaj outside our cabin in the morning. We stayed at Jamie and Peggy Townsend's place, really great :-D. This day we skied from 9am-4pm, after that a nice apreski at the legendary Chamois, in the Village.

FWT Squaw Valley

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello again! Now it's decided, there will not be another run at the FWT here in Squaw Valley California. This means that our friend Reine Barkered is the champion this time, big UP for him! This is the 6th time in a row there is a swedish winner in these FWT events, yea-haa! Henrik Windstedt and Marja Persson ended up 2nd, also great, and I was 9th. Kaj had a little adventure again, crashing pretty hard, but Im sure he's saving some energy for the next stop in Tignes next week. Cheers Sverre

Roadtrip

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I had some wonderful weeks of powder skiing around in the alps. Started out 10 days in Champoluc/Grassoney area filming for Match stick. It was mostly snowstorm so we had a great time skiing the deep pow in the trees. The next 10 days we continued the trip with Salomon freeski tv and visited Grimentz, Grindelwald, Murren, Adelboden, it was dumping pretty much all the time and it must have been one of my best powder trips ever:-) We rounded of the trip with a drive to the Pyrenees to see if we could get up higher in the alpine and ski some lines. Unfortunately we arrived 3 days to late for the good snow, it was windpacked all over, but we got some nice turns and we saw a new mountain range, thats worth 2000km for a weekend, oh yea. Kaj

travelling

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

yaeh, travelling is the word for this month. Car, plane, train, there is so many ways.The car train is a great way when you have to cross valleys in Switzerland, and my car is my home more or less, perfect to bring all stuff with you!

Outdoor Games

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ciao! Now Im in Chamonix at the Nissan Outdoor Games, with team Insomnia. Great stuff from our Kask friend Tom Erik Heimen did some really nice jumping together with Per Mundheim o Jonas Hemery, I was taking some pics from the cliff they jumped. Now Im looking forward for some more skiing action in the rest of the week :-)

Fieberbrunn

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello! I went to the Quest competition in Fieberbrunn, Austria, this weekend. It was a great event, everybody in the organisation had made a great job, I had lots of fun! Good snow and a great face, we skied the Marokka. My friend Jeanette Hargin won the womens skiing event, and I had another podium, finished third this time. After the prizegiving cermoni I had to leave for a photoshoot in Switzerland, but the great guy's at the organisation gave me a whole box of their own Fieberbrunn FWT Quest Beer for the trip, so big up for Berni and da boys :-)

Champoluc

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Me and Mike going up the chair lift super happy after skiing powder all day. Three skiing with pillow lines and cliffs in waist deep powder made the best day of the year for me. Everything is captured on film for Match stick and Salomon freeski, so hopefully we can inspire you to go shred some pow.

Sverre the Champ

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Oh yea Sverre won the first world tour stop here in russia. After jumping a huge cliff and solid skiing in the first run he followed up the second run with a tecnical run with a bunch of small cliffs. We are stoked to see that Sverre is back in the Top of the game.

Russia

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Now we are together in Russia, Sochi, at the ski resort Krasnaya Polyana. This is the first Freeride World Tour stop for 2009. Snow has been sick so far, we had one run and will do the next run tomorrow. Check out more at www.freerideworldtour.com Alex Klun is here with us, so besides of the competition we are shooting some pictures as well, and its really great terrain here, skiing the trees, yeah-ha! Kaj got this snapshot over the sholder of Alx, when I skied down after the first run in the comp :-)

tree ride

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Our Kask friends Johan Hagberg and Niklas Granlund had a fantastic weekend when they entered the comp of getting highest on the tree!:-) Its been seen a lot in movies but never as a comp. Johan reached 5.9 meters and won before Niklas who had 5,7 m above ground. well done boys

Canadian Friends

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

For the second time in two years, I just ran into a really good skiing friend of mine, Dan Treadway. He was on his yearly trip to Switzerland, this time together with Matty Richard and Damian Cromwell. We hooked up for a day, went out to ski a run called "Galtenberg", pretty cool terrain with sick rock walls surrounding us. Snow was pretty shitty but fun anyways. The canucks left me in the afternoon for a photoshoot in an ice cave, hottubbing.., and then we met again in the bar later, thanks yo for a sick day! The 3 gentlemen left us today, heading for Italy and hopefully better snow, looking great in their new Kask beanies ;-). CHECK OUT MORE ABOUT DAN AND HIS ADVENTURES AT: www.dantreadway.com Cheers Sverre

GREETINGS FROM SKI LODGE!

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Happy new year everybody! 2008 ended in a huge party and fresh powder snow at the countdown for the new year at the Ski Lodge Engelberg, thanx for a great party :-) So, the first day in 2009 gave us the best powder day of the season, yeahh! Finally there is great powder on the mountain here. Hanna is testing the fresh snow and the new 09/10 Kask products, itÂ´s working out great so far! All Best Sverre

GOD JUL! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hello all! I hope that you had a great christmas so far, and that the food makes you strong and the drinks makes you dizzy ;-). Im in Engelberg Switzerland skiing a lot, this picture I took with my cellphone on the way down from Titlis today, I went up by myself to make some turns, it was fog in the valley but sun on the top, Yeeah-Haa! /Sverre

Hemsedal

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Snow is falling and winter is coming and shops are getting prepped with new fresh gear to fit you. In the middle of the slopes the new Sportshop Hemsedal has entered the scene. This weekend they will have a lot of opening offers including the Kask helmet and goggle. I will be working on the floor so come in for chat/kaj

Here it is......

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

...our first Shop in Shop at Kaisers in SÃ¤len! Yes, itÂ´s the deal now, the new hottest marketplace, SÃ¤lfjÃ¤llsgallerian, will open and the premiere will be 12th of dec. We are stoked to be part of this, and of course we will be there at the opening! This spot will be the place for us to hang out in whenever we visit SÃ¤len, come and meet us and talk skiing, beanies weather or whatever :-) Cheers Sverre&Kaj

TandÃ¥dalen

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It's time again for the traditional skitest in TandÃ¥dalen this coming weekend. We hope to meet you there in the well prepared slopes or maybe you want to try your skills in the new built Big air arena. Ski on / kask

Stockholm at it's best!

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Saturday I went to Stockholm Stadium for this years biggest snow event, LG Winter Jam. Snowboarders n Skiers kicked ass, the condisions was great and it was actually snowing this night as well, not that common in nov anymore... Anyway things was great, and in the skiing section the Scandinavians kicked ass, Jon Olsson was 2nd after the best man of the evening, PK Hunder from Norway! Here is my pic of the night, PK in action, check out more about the event at www.freeride.se

Arvid BergstrÃ¶m

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I recieved a pic from our team rider Arvid BergstrÃ¶m from Kiruna, Sweden. This pic is from last weekend, pretty niiice! It's not to many hours with day light at the moment, dark dark dark period coming up, luckily there is a lot of great happy riders in this town to replace the sun in the winter time...:-)

Come to NK in Stockholm tomorrow

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Tomorrow, 21st of nov, Me and Kaj are inviting you to NK, we are here to chat about skiing, beanies and we are also serving some hot dogs for you :-) Hope to cu there from 15.30 -19.00 Ciao!!!

Hestra Gloves opening in Stockholm

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hestra gloves are now opening a new concept store in Stockholm! Me and Kaj went there saturday for testing all models, meet the customers and talk about skiing, gloves etc. It was a nice day and lot's of happy people looking forward to the upcoming season. Here Kaj went crazy, he couldn't decide witch colour to go for :-D

Xavier Rosset, the most lonley man in the world... :-)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

copy this link, follow and support the adventure of our snowboarding giant, big up for Mr Rosset!!! http://www.xavierrosset.ch/blog/?lang=en

Daniel Biveson

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We have a new friend at Kask friends! "Bive" is not a new friend of ours, I've known him for about 15 years...:-) Anyway hes a sick snowboarder, and he is focusing on the FIS world tour. We both live in Stockholm, and this time of year our surf spot at TorÃ¶ kicks ass! Bive sent me this picture a few day's ago, not bad for beeing in Sweden huh!? I got a little bit pissed that he didn't called me before going there that day, but I have to blame myself, I knew the winds were right :-/ Follow Bive during his season at www.danielbiveson.com All Best Sverre

Roadtrip

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Last week we did an awesome roadtrip starting in Rättvik sweden driving west to Norway. Car was loaded with bikes, skis, surfboards, wetsuits, skateboards, tent and sleeping bags. 1st day we did downhill biking in Gesunda, super good fun trails, second day we tried out rafting in sjoa which was nice. Day 3 we entered the bigger mountains in Stryn and went up on the glacier for a couple of turns, icy. Then we moved on to the grande finale, the Atlantic ocean for surfing, weather was on our side and we surfed into sunset. Everything was captured by our friend Jerk Looman and will be a tv-show on packat & klart to the spring.

Delivery times!

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Delivery times at the Kask office! Now we are getting closer to winter, and it's time do send out our Kask stuff to the shops. The helmets, beanies, hoods and stuff is looking great, so within a few weeks we hope You will find Your favourite item in Your local shop :-D Here is Kaj trying to sort out witch box is going to witch country... Hola bandola / Sverre & Kaj

slime

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce the Winner of the best beanie design at our Carl Larsson work shop earlier this summer. We got a lot of good designs but the outstanding winner was Matilda WesslÃ©n 10 years of age. We totally loved Matilda's drawing of the slime monster and we are now making a prototype. Hopefully Matilda will like it when its transfered into a beanie, we will present it here soon.

Chile

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Back in Winter! I went down to Chile with the Salomon team to test out some new skis. We went deep into the Andes, lived at a family farm far from everything. In the mornings we went with 4x4 trucks up threw the forest to the snow, from there we went with snowmobiles to the peaks. By hiking and sledding we reached mountains never skied before, we were also super lucky with the conditions, powder and a couple of sunny days made it a great adventure. Live a little/kaj

Carl Larsson

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Ak first day

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Finally itÂ´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:-)

Another magic moment...

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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 SchnabelkÃ¤se 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

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

New gloves!

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We are both happy to be wearing Hestra gloves from now on, ye-haa! It´s not only the very best gloves you can find, it´s also a really nice and traditionally family company out of Sweden, started back in 1936. We went there to their office in Hestra, to visit and get a lot of great advice for Kask that we can use for the future. Please go to www.hestragloves.com for more info

SAAB

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

Hemsedal

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

WWF

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Onboard

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Our snowboard heroes Jonte Edvardson and Jonas Hagström have a great cover on the latest issue of Onboard magazine. Check the mag out and enjoy reading about their trip to Japan. We also take the chance to say that the Swedish mountains got powder!

Magnus & Ã…ssy

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Our Kask friends Magnus Tveito and Ã…smund Thorsen killed it on the big mountain comps last winter. They both won the overall of the Norway freeridecup, magnus in the telemark and Ã…smund in the alpine. Picture is was taken on the prize giving on friday in Oslo. Con gratulations gutter.Â

Packat&Klart.

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Kaj will be the tour guide in Chamonix in "Packat&Klart". Of course, his companion Sverre, joins him for some good powder skiing down the Valle Blanche. If you plan to go to Chamonix, it could be some good inspiration so have a look! GO TO http://svt.se/packatochklart

Skate at Fiskartorpet!

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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 TorÃ¶ for more waves ;-).

Jon Ã–rarbÃ¤ck, 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!

LATEST NEWS!

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Our Sickbird Helmet is soon in stores. We proudly present a multi purpose helmet that fulfill all safety certifications for Skiing, Snowboarding, Skateboard and Biking, and even for water sports! It comes with a specific beanie with earpads for the winter fit and two different padding systems for summer use.

Chris Davenport

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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!

summer working

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Here is a pick from last week, when me, Kaj and Lina is putting together the new Kask line for 08/09 ;-)
We spent some hectic days at the office in Rättvik working day and night, and it´s gonna be sick! Cheers /Sverre

M A X !

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The other week I ran into one of the sickest skiers around on this planet, Max. Max is 4 years old and kick ass on his skis, snowboard and skate. Here he is testing out the new Kask goggle and helmet in Riksgränsen!

Stay tuned on this bad ass dude, he skied La Grave top to bottom at 3!
Now Max has his base in Serre Chevalier, FRA, where he lives with his sister Robina mom Pia (ski instructor), and dad Stefan (leg mountain guide).

Peace/Sverre

Helmets n Googles!

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hello folks! Here Im testing our new fresh products for this coming fall, our HELMETS, Sick!

We are very proud to present this multi purpouse helmet in two colors, Green and Black.

For the winter "mode" there is a special padded Kask beanie that comes with the helmet. Then for summer, You just change the beanie to padding of Your choice.

Also the Goggle is new, and comes in two matching colors, what more can u ask for!?

Actually, both me and Kaj have been testing this products during the winter, and we are stoked, hopefully we can sell some as well so we can develop new ones, in more colors! ;-)

Norway here we come!

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In late april me and Kaj will go sailing with some friends in northern Norway, at the Lyngen alps. We have planned this for a year now, and it´s a dream comming true.

The boat leaves from Tromsö the 21:th and we are bringing food, beer, skis, skins, surfboards, fishing rods, everything! Then we just take the boat up the fjords to the most nice mountains, skin up and ski down.