Schweden

The "Schnee.Semmelnare" of the Austrian Society for Snow and Avalanches (ÖGSL) opens the new winter season with exciting, international lectures on the topic of snow and avalanches. The lectures take place monthly, are recorded online and are available for streaming on YouTube or on the ÖGSL website. Take a look!

Jackie Paaso, FWT veteran who now lives in Sweden, takes us on an unusual adventure in the Swedish wilderness in "Arctic 12". Together with Reine Barkered and other pros from the Scott team, she has set herself the goal of skiing up all 12 mountains in Sweden that are over 2000 meters high.

The familiar Scandinavian protagonists, namely one each from Norway, Sweden and Finland, characterize this episode. We get to see the adventures of late spring 2021 here, matured and freshly baked, and the parallels are as obvious as they are interesting. They all had to deal with the same dangerous avalanche conditions, and they all solved them in their own way. We present: a big bubble of Scandinavian happiness!

We conclude the Videos of the Week season with a stocktaking: how are all the powder junkies and gully hazardeurs, park kids and ski touring fanatics coping under house arrest? What substitutes are needed? Videos of the week, for example? We see that some do it with style, others with style, and the best thing is that we all continue to do nothing at all out there!

Rising like a phoenix from the powder: your weekly delivery of ski porn and procrastination material - the Videos of the Week! After several years of hibernation, you will now be informed about the latest happenings in our powder world captured on film. Let me tell you, there's really something going on out there. Nevertheless, to mark the start of the season and after a long absence, the fresh films are complemented by a modern classic and a personal contribution. Let's go!

Skiing is not just a sport. It's the little moments between the big runs that Sandra Lahnsteiner makes really big in her latest Shades of Winter film Between and that make skiing what it really is.

Black Diamond presents the silent, unknown protagonists of the ski and climbing scene in a new web series. The Swedish ski mountaineer Henrik Westling makes the start.

The second part of Zach Paley's Norwegian spring trilogy takes you across the border to the Swedish ski resort of Riksgransen, where Zach claims to have only used mechanized lifts there....

In mid-May, a group of hungry freeriders made their way to Lapland in the far north to enjoy the last powder days of the 2010 season 200 km above the Arctic Circle. That was the plan, but instead they experienced the heaviest snowmelt for many years in Riksgränsen. But even this couldn't stop them from climbing Nordalsfjäll, heliskiing in the midnight sun and, of course, exploring the off-piste area of Riksgränsenfjället!

It was 20 years ago, but Martin still remembers his first skiing vacation with his parents very clearly. He was only five years old and the five-hour drive to the ski resort in central Sweden was a long one. Martin remembers the joy of the falling snow, the cold wind in his face and the sound of his skis on the icy slope. This experience is probably etched in the memory of many children, but only for a few does the simple joy of skiing reach this dizzying level of excitement.