Some more telemark skiing

This time, I'm going to report a short story of our teleskiing day in southern Finland. Generally, today was just quite awesome what comes to the weather point of view. Sun was shining nicely in the beginning (around noon) and temperature staying bit above 0'C degrees, but the slopes were still in pretty good condition, cause there weren't that many skiers around.

During the first couple of runs, we spent on memorising "hmmm, how should those telemark turns go smoothly again..." Finally, we started to remember the basics after few runs, and then we spent time on rehearsing those. All in all, quite some development has happened, but there's still a lot to do (looking those "big boys", who can really rip it fast with smooth looking edge turns).

After our pizza break, we skied a couple of runs taking some pictures and few videos of our teleskiing. We still skied few runs after our multimedia sessions, but then it was time to call it a day.

Snowy Tuesday

After a few days of above zero degrees and wet snow, a snowfall hit during the early morning on Tuesday. I tried to figure out something to do, but it would have been shitty to cross-country ski, so I took my snowshoes out of their bag. Then, I went to nearby woods for a quick and fun session, which included some "climbing with snowshoes" and few "locked heels" drops into fresh and untouched snow. Well, for the "climbing" part I had to choose another route, cause the first one was too icy. Finally, the one I climbed had some old and well packed snow, which "bent" into nice juggy hand holds after a bit of fisting.

The first line, which was bit too icy...

And by the way, I just realized that my blog is going to have its first anniversary on 13th February. Quite a bunch of things has happened during the first year and luckily the statistics show that some people have found/read this blog (a few times in a day, on average)

First bits and pieces of telemark skiing

For now, I got a chance to practice telemark skiing for the first time. I've never really been so much into downhill skiing, but being an enthusiastic cross-country skier, I decided to give it a go. Well, it's not that easy and won't go so smoothly, but I'll most probably go and practice more during this winter.

During our journey back from the ski resort, we realized that we didn't take any photos, but hopefully we'll remember next time. So there would be some stuff to watch on my blog, not only this "Finnish rally driver English" to read.

Celebrating New Year in the name of cross-country skiing

The past few days have gone in the name of cross-country skiing. We, me and my cousin, visited our uncle's place in south-western Finland. All in all, we had time to do skiing for four days and our daily pace was approximately more or less 15 kilometers (between 13 and 18 km's any way). So during those four days, we skied total of 60 kilometers, which was some kind of a goal for us. The tracks were in pretty much perfect condition, so it was really pleasant to do cross-country skiing from that point of view.

Of course it's easy to ski even more, but those sessions, we had, were quite normal "just go out and ski" not some 30-kilometer "take hot chocolate and lunch with you" days.

I think that it's time to do some climbing for now...

Nothing special

Wow, it has been quiet for a while. Probably, because I haven't been doing anything really special or exciting. But still, I´ve been messing around with a bunch of things, although this time no pictures are taken.

Winter is going on quite well in Finland and there´s surprisingly snow here in the southern part too well before Christmas. So I´ve luckily been able to start my cross-country skiing season a bit earlier (few weeks ago) compared to the latest winters. And at the moment, it´s snowing so hopefully the tracks will be in even better condition.

What comes to climbing, I´ve been leading indoors and messing around with routes of 6a´ish. I´ve also done some bouldering and managed to climb my first 6b on 45 degree overhang during last Sunday´s session.