Røldal Freeride Challenge run

This is my finals run in Røldal Freeride Challenge. Had a good run, but unfortunately loosing my ski on the last landing. Skied out of it clean (!!), but the rules state that if essential gear is lost (skis) it is automaticly a no score. So i didn't get a score on the run, but i'm happy about the run anyways. It atleast was a great crowd pleaser! 

Ended up in 3. place in the Norwegian Freeride Cup with competing in 3 of 4, and only getting a score in two of them. Beaten by two local buddys of mine, Dennis Risvoll and Øystein Aasheim. Congrats boys! I won Sogndal Freeride and placed a little further back in Sauda Backcountry Challenge (45 points). I didn't wear my GoPro in Sauda, so I have no footage of that. Did a not so great qualifyer there, but I managed to do a good finals run that boosted me a little up from quali.

A couple of videos from Fluidtv.no.. I promise to be a little better with the updates from now on!

Sogndal, freeride and fun!

Sogndal Freeride was last weekend. We started early Friday morning. The qualification run went pretty well until the last drop. The trees on the exit were standing denser than I thought. So I had some trouble on my exit, and had a little fall in the landing. I was on second place before the final day. The final day I charged hard at the top, and it went well. But after my big drop I was turning hard to lose some speed, and then accidentally crossed my skis. I probably lost the victory in that mistake. Then I got too far down after the fall, and lost the rest of my line. I got second place after the two days. Considering my two far from perfect runs it’s a good result.
On Sunday everyone was leaving Sogndal, but I decided to stay here for some more days. And I definitively don’t regret that. We had good skiing on both Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday became a resting day after a good concert with Kings of Lien (yes, Lien) on Tuesday night. Last night we got some more snow here, so I think tomorrow is going to be a good day skiing. Probably the whole weekend here in Sogndal will be awesome. It is really a nice place to be, so I’m actually considering studying here from this fall.
Next freeride competition up is Voss Freeride in two and a half weeks. I am really looking forward to that as well. Next up is maybe Alperittet this weekend, a timed race down a mountain. Ski yah!


Video of my two runs. Raw and uncut without music. Enjoy.


My runs in Sogndal Freeride 2011, raw and uncut. from Ove Nestvold on Vimeo.