Skiing the Planet

"Mongolia is kind of close, right?" Story about an attempt to ski everywhere in the world where there's snow. And in some places where there isn't. On and off-piste skiing on all continents, skiing into craters of live volcanoes, caving, climbing, photography, and travel.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

First snow, first descent

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Sunday morning and the first snow! Well, a bit of white here and there. But a time to open the season in my local hill in Grani! The ...
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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Yokohama

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My sorry life, episode two. It was Jim who brought up an indoor ski hill. Japan is the indoor ski capital of the world, but it had not...

The Ultimate Frustration

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What's the point of working so hard that you cannot do the things you love? I feel like I'm far too busy. To add insult to the i...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Chattanooga Caving

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I like caves, but feel suspicious of touristy tours. They usually leave a bland feeling, too easy, too packaged. Not so with Ruby Falls...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Lagunillas

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No Abierto . The police has blocked the road. For a moment, we accepted our fate and considered having lunch. Or going riding in the ne...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

OpenStreetMap

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When skiing or hiking at a new place, suitable maps are essential. These maps can be hard to come by, however, and most GPS maps do no...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Volcán Villarica

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That moment when you realise that the ski area you were going to ski at next week is closed due to the volcano erupting. The obvious ne...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Riders of the Lost Arenales

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There are references to it in the Internet. And a sole road sign point to it. But it is nowhere to be found. Tero and I had spent the ...
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