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.

A short video from today

I was taking pictures for Helly Hansen today with Johan Wildhagen. I borrowed a pair of alpine skis and Helly Hansen clothes. In between the photographing I also got to do some filming with my GoPro. So here is a short edit from today.


A short video from today from Ove Nestvold on Vimeo.

Photoshooting and powderskiing in Voss, Norway

The plan was going to the alps the 10th of January, but heavy snow on the west coast brought me to Voss in Norway instead. First I just moved my planeticket, but now I just let it go. Just staying in Norway until the conditions in the alps gets better. I have been in Voss for an epic week now, and have taken a lot of photos with both Sverre Hjørnevik (www.digitalnatur.no) and Benjamin Hjort (www.hjortmedia.com). We had amazing conditions this whole week, and got to do a lot of fun stuff. On Sunday it started raining, and it still is. But that's actually not necessarily a bad thing, we will get a much more stable snowpack when the weather gets colder again. And the weatherforecast says cold weather and snow, so this might just be the start of some more epic days here in Voss! Here are some pictures from Benjamin in Voss Resort, a little videoclip of Ole Kristian Årmot on one of our powderdays in Myrkdalen, and a GoPro clip of me going down Bodegaen in Voss.

Photo: Benjamin Hjort www.hjortmedia.com

Photo: Benjamin Hjort www.hjortmedia.com

Photo: Benjamin Hjort www.hjortmedia.com

Photo: Benjamin Hjort www.hjortmedia.com

 Ole Kristian Årmot shredding in Myrkdalen

Me going down Bodegaen in Voss