Heavy unusual snowfall in my hometown!

Here are some pictures from the period 10. January 2015-18. January 2015 taken by me of friends having fun with the great snowconditions we got here in my hometown. It is not usual we get this much snow at once, and at least not in early January. I've never experienced skiingconditions this good here as i can remember, and for so many days. So this can be the start of a great winter up here in Bøverdalen and Jotunheimen! And if this continues the spring skiing is going to be even better!

In the 10 consecutive days we skied here I was never more than 4-5 kilometers from my house when skiing. There are no lifts, so all the skiing comes from good old walking to the top :-)

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All photos: ©Ove Nestvold / Fjellvaak.no

Åsmund Galde

Per Arne Vole

Åsmund Galde

Sara Storevik Moe on her way for som nightskiing in the powder at Raubergstulen

Rune Mundhjeld overlooking a few farms in our home town

Tomas Sørhage skiing into town

Åsmund Galde

Åsmund Galde

Per Arne Vole

Tomas Sørhage

Tomas Sørhage

Åsmund Galde grew up on one of the two farms closest in the picture, so this is real local powder skiing!
You can also see both the houses i grew up in, plus the house I live in now in the picture!

Åsmund Galde

Per Arne Vole

Åsmund Galde

Per Arne Vole

Åsmund Galde

Per Arne Vole

Rough cut Season 12/13 start to end Recap GoPro edit

Here is a rough cutted season 12/13 GoPro edit i made quicly yesterday. It's not the best of editing quality, but it at least shows a little skiing from last season. It's edited from start of season to end, so you can see a little how the skiing was troughout the season. The photo at the end is taken by Sverre Hjørnevik (www.sverrehjornevik.com) a couple of years ago in Myrkdalen, Voss.

Really looking forward to the upcoming season! I'm writing my bachelors degree this winter, so I hope I have a lot of time to go skiing as well. Alredy tried to start the season on Tuesday on Sognefjellet with Gaute Ringstad Holte, but we got some shitty weather and had to turn around. At least we got to walk a couple of hours with our skis on. oping on better luck next time I go skiing.

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 few photos from Frudalshesten 12.1.2013. All photos by: Sara Storevik Moe

One of many good memories from last season

In danger of giving a lot of skiers even more skiing-abstinenses, here's a clip from one of the easiest accessable powderruns last season. Right under the chairlift in Voss Resort. Very fun run! This day me managed to get two runs there before anyone else. One of my first runs on the new Black Crows Nocta. And one of many of the memorable runs last season in Norway. Looking forward to more runs like that on the Nocta upcoming season!! And if you hear some whistling in the background of the video, your correct, it's just me having a good time whistling away:-)

Voss Resort chairlift powderrun from Ove Nestvold on Vimeo.

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.

Myrkdalen 09.02.2011

Myrkdalen 09.02.2011 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