Another week has passed and it’s still snowing. Sometimes very hard snowfall, sometimes just light snow and fog. We have been out touring almost every day so the legs are getting tired by now but it’s all good when your able to ride pow.
Eliel showed us a very nice pillow zone that we have been up to a few times now with some good results.
Here is a video from the past week and a teaser of the zone we have been to.
Marshmallow land
After a few sunny days with ok snow the low pressure rolled in. We had got a few good shots so far but the snow made it a bit hard to get great stuff even if the riding has been good and a lot of fun.
It did not look like this storm would bring that much snow but we got a very positive surprise when we got to the mountain today. Eliel Hindert joined the crew today so now there are three riders, Eliel, Piers and Jesse.
We are all pretty tired from riding and tomorrow is a new early start so here are a few shots form today plus a video from before and during the storm.
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Jesse getting face shot
Piers with a 360, I had trouble seeing him with all the snow falling
Jesse finding some fun pillows
Eliel 180 to pow
Piers, almost snorkel deep
Me and Piers got in to Nelson 2 days ago and hooked up with Ben from Sweetgrass and Jesse Hoffman.
We got a nice and mellow start here in Whitewater yesterday. It was cold and blue sky with good snow. We took it pretty easy and did not shoot that much because Piers is sick and Ben has not got all his touring gear yet. The first part of the day Tobias Liljeroth from the Swedish ski mag Åka Skidor showed us around and took us to some good spots.
It’s a bit cloudy today so we are having a slow start but will head up soon to see if it clears a bit.
Here are a few shots form yesterday.
Piers alone in the woods
Jesse and Piers
Jesse
Piers
Piers with the last turn of the day
Whitewater
Two new covers dropped in and this time it’s French SKI Magazine and German SNOW.
The SKI cover is of Seb Garhammer skiing in Pemberton, BC at Backcountry Snowcats during our shoot for the Peak Performance catalog.
The other one is of Jon Larsson in Sestriere. It’s actually the same day as his cover last month on SKI Magazine, just about 10 minutes a part.
I’m in Spokane, WA now waiting for our ride to Nelson, BC. I have a massive jetlag from the 20h flight and have been up since 4am. I’ll post an update about the plans in Canada soon.
Here are the covers.
Seb Garhammer in Pemberton
Jon Larsson in Sestriere
I had the pleasure to join Ben Sturgulewski, Johan Jonsson, Forrest Shearer and Stephan Drake last April on a camping mission in Hanies,AK.
Here is a short video from that trip that Ben and the Sweetgrass crew put together. Ben really know how to capture the right feeling and his eye for a beautiful shot is spot on.
I’m happy to join Ben on Monday again in Nelson, BC for the upcoming Sweetgrass project.
It has been snowing for a few days here in Engleberg but it has also been very strong winds. Everything was closed on Thursday but it did open up yesterday so we went up to Brunni for a few runs. We found some good snow but also ran in to very strong wind at some places.
It calmed down a bit yesterday evening and the snow should keep dumping so I think it could be even better up there in the next few days.
Here is a mellow video from yesterday.
Brunni from oskar enander on Vimeo.
The Swedish design and architecture magazine HOOM just ran a portfolio of mine.
Happy new year.
HOOM
Stephan Drake in Haines.
Patrick Vuagnat in Disentis and Tobias Nordahl in Engelberg
Bimba Bernasconi in Haines
Tobias Nordahl in Engelberg and Patrick Vuagnat in Engelberg
Seb Garhammer in Haines
Jon Larsson in Sestriere
After a pretty long storm cycle here in Engelberg it cleared on the 25th and we got a nice high pressure. The snow has been really good and it’s nice to see that it’s filling in well and most stuff good to ride. I have been shooting a bit with Mattias Hargin, Johan Jonsson, Piers Solomon and Lars Windlin and we got some good stuff. I can’t show anything great but here are a few leftovers.
Btw, it’s snowing again and it looks like it could be another good storm.
Lars Windlin
Piers and Mattias checking out their lines
Piers crusing
Piers throwing a mini back flip
Johan is back in Engelberg
Engelberg
Winter has finally arrived for real in Engleberg. We have had several days with heavy snowfall and it still keeps on coming down. I have been out riding a lot to get my legs going.
Here are a few shots and a video.
Dumping
Yves Hüsler
Edward Berg getting face shot
Johan with a heavy mustache
Piers Solomon
Piers
It's deep in town too. Ski Lodge Engelberg is inviting for Apre ski
Two new covers just hit the news stand and both of them are of Jon Larsson.
I’m very happy for both of them but the Freeskiers Photo Annual cover is a big thing to get so I’m super stoked about that! That shot was taken on a catalog shoot for Peak Performance in Pemberton, BC.
The other cover is of French SKI Magazine. It was taken in Sestriere, Italy a few years ago, right before we got caught by the police for skiing off pist……
Jon in Pemberton
Some words about the shot
Jon getting face shot before the police came
I did a quick trip to Val d’Isere last Thursday after hearing rumors about a lot of new snow. I hooked up with Piers Solomon and Patrick Vuagnat and the plan was to shoot some photos but we ended up skiing a lot and shooting very little.
It was a good call since it was the first pow day of the season for all of us so the motivation to work was not too high.
Now I’m back in Engelberg and it has been snowing all day. I think it can get good up there when it clears.
Here are a few shots from the trip and a video.
Patrick on his first pow day of the season
Piers trying a hand-drag but not enough speed
Two slappa fotbollstummar
The snow line got low and there were some huge snowflakes in the village today
Val d’Isere from oskar enander on Vimeo.
It finally started snowing here in Engelberg. It’s hard to know what forecast you should trust, some of them are a bit too good to be true.
Here are two ads Audi did with my shots.
I saw that these two ads from The North Face and Peak Performance got printed.
The TNF ad is from a trip I did to Greece in February. We had really bad luck with the weather but we manage to get some good shots out of the trip anyway. Tom-Oliver was really delivering so I’m glad he got this ad.
I spent almost 6 weeks in Utah last season and shot most of the time up in Alta and Snowbird. The Peak Performance ad of Rachael Burks is from Alta on one of the coldest days last year, at least top 3 for me. It had snowed quite a bit and with very cold temperatures I finally got to ride the real Utah pow.
The last shot is of Johan Jonsson on another cover. That one if form a book about good touring spots in Norway.
Johan and me went up to Senja in northern Norway in May. We got super lucky with good weather and good spring snow for a week. The touring there is amazing, you start from sea level and skin your way up to some really good terrain. I will go back for sure.
Tom-Oliver Hedvall
Rachael Burks
Johan Jonsson
I went to Milano last week with a few family members. The main objective was to watch AC Milan vs FC Barcelona in the Champions League and eat good food. I got exactly what I wanted when Barca won the game 3-2 and plenty of amazing food.
I’m back in Engelberg now and it’s still very dry here. It looks like there might be some snow coming end of the week and I really hope so because we need all we can get.
site seeing
Good seats
Try this place if you are in Milano
Raw meat, just what I like!
Almost raw, as good as it gets
Glas
Italian fashion
I just got the very sad news that my good friend Jamie Pierre was killed in an avalanche accident today at Snowbird in Utah.
Jamie was always the nicest and caring guy to me from day one. I remember the day we first met at the top of the Jochstock chair lift in Engelberg. He asked me right away if I wanted to join his crew to go shoot some photos. At that time I was pretty new in the ski photo scene and obviously got really happy to get the chance to shoot with him. A few hours later he jumped the biggest cliff I had ever seen. I was amazed of his energy and passion for skiing from the first moment I skied with him.
It’s a very sad day and my thoughts goes out to Amee!
RIP Jamie
The first day I met you Jamie
Haines
Always happy
From your last day shooting last year. It was a great day Jamie