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.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Bird Horniness Eye Swamp Cave

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Bird Horniness Swamp Eye cave. A great name, at least. But is the cave great? We were led to this cave once again by the excellent art...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Sotkamo Dress Code

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"Can you take my skis to the clothes check?" "Why not, we also take baseball bats." Dressed in a black suit, I'm...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Backpacks are DEATH

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"It is not about your experience with backpacks, it is about PEOPLE DYING". The ski patrol's inexplicable rule prohibits m...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Kinderskilift

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We took an airplane. A train. And hiked. For this? A kid slope half the size of my home slope in Grani. But it turns out we got to ski a...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Der Après-ski Zug

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This is a brilliant idea. The Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn doesn't just take you to the ski slopes, it also serves beer and after-ski mu...
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Thursday, February 9, 2017

A Test

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The sky is dark, but I can see lights behind. Suddenly a small object flies through the air. A small man. I think. I move a bit out of...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Delamination

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Uh... my skis are delaminating. They already were doing it a bit earlier, and that got fixed in Skiservice. But they warned that the s...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Bulgarian Powder

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What's it going to be, Tero? Shall we fly tomorrow morning for a day trip to Kazakhstan? Or for day and half in Bulgaria? We opted f...
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