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As the title says, I have a new blog. and a new webiste, my own website for the first time.
This will help my family and friends who are not on freeride to make comments on my posts
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I have teamed up with a new bracelets brand. On the picture above you can see the Jonathan Claar Pro Model.
I am very happy about this coorporation. I think and hope it will be good for both parties.
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I've been resting a few days since my crash now, and probably, unfortunately I have to stay off the mountain tormorrow as well. It's a bit frustrating. The canada-no-work-just-ski-life is not as fun without the skiing-part. But I'll give it a few more days, then I'll be back in my boots, on my skis. The snow is puking down now, and I will try my boots tomorrow, if it feels quite good, I'm going to give it a shot. Just a few runs would be awesome. But then it's weekend and it will be so many people, the huge line-up before the gondola. But it will be worth it if it keeps snowing all night. On the other hand. I know I will have a lot of powder days out here in Revelstoke. So there is no need to stress. But damn I want to ski!
Today we went out for some beacon practice, it was good. Long time since the last practice and it's good for me to know that my friends will be able to find me, and for my friends to know that I will be able to find them, if it is needed. Hopefully it should not be needed, but you never know.
We've been out for some partying two times since last update. On tuesday it was 2 dollar beer at Regent. Cheap! But it also made us pretty hung. It was a great night tho. Didn't spend a lot of money even tho I had quite a few beer. Last night we went to Traverse which used to be the local strip club. But we found out it is not any more. After a few beer, air hockey and a wet t-shirt contest, we went to Last drop to finnish the night, but at the same moment that we were to order beer, we decided to go to the pizza place, have a slice and the go home. Great call!
Now we have just watched Très Bonne Équipe, the movie about Kaj&Sverre. Great movie, a real feel-good movie. Now we're going to bed, getting prepared for a pow day. As I said, hopefully I will be able to ski. Otherwise, I'll watch some movies and wait for the other guys to come home and tell me how deep and awesome it was. We'll see. I'll keep you posted.
Air hockey. Erik was last nights champ!
2 dollar beer at Regent. That's what I call a good beer.
A great IPA called Nasty Habit, it's a local beer.
Anna came home yesterday and was not so happy. 167 dollars due to "Fail to wear seatbelt" Ouch!
Beacon practice. Jocke and Erik in action.
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Yesterday we decided it was time to get back on the mountain again after a day off. The day off was very needed but now our suck for skiing was to big. Erik, Jocke and I hitchedhiked up to the hill, they got a ride with an Australian dude, and I was picked up by two guys and a girl from New Zealand. It's easy to get a ride here. You just stand beside the road and in a few minutes someone will stop and ask you if you want a ride, you don't even have to show the your thumb. Try that in sweden..
We had an awesome day up there. After the gondola and the Stoke chair we put our skins on and hiked for about 30 minutes to the top of Montana bowl. Same as last time. The diffenrence tho, it was deeper yesterday, a little bit slower snow, but deeper for sure. I haven't had time to edit the movies yet, but you can watch them on my facebook. We also hade quite a few pics where you can see how deep it was. I don't have them all but watch Jocke and Erik's blog which I shared yesterday.
Today we went uphill again, it was cold but still good snow. We skied spanish ridge which is a fun area to play around. We found a sweet cliff, around 6 meters which is pretty high for me, but I jumped it. And now Im in pain. The landing was not that soft and even if I stompted it, with some help from my backslap, something happend to my right leg, I suspect a rapture of a muscle in my shin. I wouldn't say it't too bad. Maybe a few days off. Hopefully. Im not worried any more and friends and family back home should not be worried either. Sometimes this happens and you have to push your self in order to improve.
Here's some pics from yesterday
Jocke in a sweet powder turn.
Andreas skis deep
Mr. Hammarsten is smiling big, even tho you can't see it!
Make sure you turn right here..
No, I haven't seen a bear, and no, Im not scared, just cold and excited.. I guess this is my cold and excited look.
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Today we decided to stay in town and don't ski. Sore muscles and lots of people on the mountain since it's Sunday was the main reason. We spend a few hours downtown, checked som skishops and grabed a coffee at a nice café. I bought some new touring poles, so now I'll probably run up the hill. When you don't ski, you just chill, pretty much. So I've spent a few minutes in the front of my Mac, and now Erik is cooking dinner. Not that tough life.
Here's a few pice on what we do when we are not skiing.
I just want to say; a pretty nice view!
Downtown Revelstoke, ist typical canadian
a pretty sweet truck
my new poles
watching ski movies
Erik made us a great pasta + köttfärssås
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Second day on the mountain today. 25 cm snow over night made us very excited this morning. But when we came up to mountain we realised that we were not alone. a huge line to the gondola and it took us at least 20 minutes before we sat in the gondola. We took a few runs inbounds but it was pretty much skied up. Most of it. After a lunch break we decided use our skins. Thirty minutes later we were on the top of montana bowl. Untouched powder. 500, or so, vertical meters. Ridiculously good snow. After all it turned out to be a great day. We are all very tired and it's time to go to sleep. Tomorrow we are probably going to sleep in, and then maybe go up for a montana bowl run again. We'll see.
On the way up!
Powder turns!
Happy dudes after an epic run.
You should probably not ski there!
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Jag tar ett svenskt blogginlägg så här i början på min resa. Anledningen är att jag satt och skrev i ungefär en halvtime, hade skrivit om hela resan och första dagen på skidor, laddat upp alla bilder, och sedan skulle jag bara byta flik och kolla en sak. Råkade klicka bort fliken. Tungt! Skriver lite fortare på svenska så därför får det bli på svenska nu.
Resan började mycket tidigt i torsdags då klockan ringde redan 4.30. En timme senare satt vi i bilen på väg mot landvetter. Vi var lite nervösa inför incheckningen då vi hade övervikt på vårt bagage. Men kvinnan bakom disken var både snäll och hade dåligt med koll, så därför kom vi billigt och smidigt undan. För 310 kronor fick jag med min resväska på 23,6 kg och mitt skidfodral på närmare 25 kilo. Glada och laddade gick vi igenom säkerhetskontrollen utan problem. Laddade upp med en frukost och sedan var det dags att hoppa på planet. Mindre än två timmar senare landade vi i frankfurt. En helt sjukt stor flygplats som kan jämföras med en mindre stad. Imponerande att allt fungerar. Lite skidfilm, McDonald's och att hitta till gaten tog de tre timmar vi hade på oss och sen var det dags för den tio timmar långa flygningen till Calgary. Den lilla skärmen som man har framför sig erbjöd bra filmer och tv-serier. Men även en karta där man kan se hur planet tar sig fram och efter två timmar hade vi knappt kommit någonstans, det var någon gång då jag insåg hur långt det är. Men med lite käk, en timmes sömn och Lejonkungen gick det ganska snabbt till slut. Allt flöt på oroväckande bra och vi började misstänka att detta vill slå tillbaka på oss. Varför inte i tullen?
Kvinnan som jag fick prata med var allt annat än glad. Hennes blick var helt svart. Hon frågade efter passet och när hon öppnade det fick hon se mitt arbetsvisum som jag hade förra året. Hon blev genast misstänksam. Flertalet gånger frågade hon om jag skulle jobba och varje gång svarade jag nej. Hon klargjorde för mig att dom kommer att ta mig om jag jobbar, och att dom har cevilklädda officerer ute, och åter igen, att dom kommer ta mig om jag jobbar. Jag förklarade för henne att jag ska semestra och att jobba inte är intressant. Hon ville där efter veta hur jag hade råd med detta, vad jag jobbade med, vad jag jobbade med förra vintern, var jag skulle bo, samtidigt som hon kollade mitt pass tre gånger och stirrade mig i ögonen med en blick som sa något i stil med "Fan vad du kommer åka dit om du jobbar..". Till slut fick jag komma in i landet. Lättnad. Glädje. Pepp!
Vi träffade en kille på flygplatsen och delade en taxi till bussterminalen. Nu väntade en sex timmars bussfärd mot bergen och snön. Tyvärr var det mörkt och även att vi satt längs fram såg vi inte så mycket av bergen. Vilket jag tycker var synd, mest för Eriks skull. Jag har sett det innan och vet hur vackert där är. Vägen in i och igenom bergen är riktigt fin och det var tråkigt att Erik inte fick se det. Tre minuter i midnatt hoppade vi av på busshållplatsen i Revy där Carro väntade med bil och vi åkte till huset där vi ska spendera vintern. 29 timmar dörr till dörr är segt. Det är tur att jag inte gör det så ofta.
Idag hade vi första dagen i backen. Riktigt skönt. Eller nu ljuger jag. Fötterna gör ont och jag har klagat lite väl mycket, får skärpa mig och bita ihop nu. Föret är inte det bästa, snön är packad och det var länge sedan det dumpade. Väderprognosen säger snö i en vecka framåt. Inga mängder men ändå så att det blir mjukt och skönt. Dagen avslutades med en sen lunch på McDonald's och en bra stund i badtunnan med en kall öl. Sämre kan man ha det.
Tidsskillnaden börjar kännas nu och även fast klockan bara är halv nio väntar sängen ganska snart. Ska dock försöka hålla mig vaken ett tag till för att komma in i det.
Nu kommer det lite bilder från resan och första dagen i backen.
Erik checkar in och betalar för extra bagaget.
Erik letar. Det fanns några gates att välja bland.
Vi hittade rätt och äntligen var vi i luften!
Calgary
Erik och vårt bagage på bussterminalen i Calgary
En glad, men mörkredigerad, Erik första dagen på kanadensisk snö
En rätt nöjd Erik
Erik och Jocke lägger några svängar i pisten
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I'm going to miss you. But I'll see you in eighty days!
No, its not our baby, he is Anna's nephew :)
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The last few days I've been preparing for my trip. I leave in six days and Im pretty set right now. Just a few more things to do before
thursday. The conditions over seas are good. Base depth is 166cm at the moment and there is more to come. Feels a bit weird and some times I have to remind my self that I will be in Canada in only six days. Anna is sitting next to me right now, and for sure I will miss her. A lot!
If you want shorts updates more often, please follow me on twitter, @jonathanclaar
Here's what I've been up to the past few days.
installed the heaters to my boots
Got some help from dad to fix my skins
Getting ready to travel
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I wrote a post a few minutes ago, and then, when I was about to update, my MacBook fucked up and I had to turn it off, I that I had written was gone. What I want to say is that I had a great Christmas with my family, and Annas family. New Years eve was awesome and that Revelstoke is getting closer. Im not really feeling it tho. I mean, Im stoked for it, for sure. But since the weather in Sweden, particularly Hestra, is shitty, I guess I cant really feel the great feeling I usually have in december-january. I can't remember last season I couldn't ski after new years. Tonight we had like 2 cm's of snow in Hestra, it was white, and then it started to rain again. it sucks!
Anyway. Anna are coming on thursday and it's going to be a great weekend. My brother and his family will also come and visit us for the weekend. Looking forward to it. I wish tho, that we could spend a few hours up at Isaberg (the local mountain), but that wont happen.
Here's a few pics from New Years and some stuff.
activities on Saturday
BBQ and beer and Lord Calvert
Anna and I, ready for New Year's dinner
music charades
fire works
We didn't have fire works since the hosts have two dogs, so we lighted these paper air-balloons instead.
Getting geared up for the winter with some new liners. Old - New.
Thanks to Krille at www.areskidsport.se
And these beauties! Skins and Marker Duke. Thanks to Patrik at www.skidad.com. If you haven't visited that site. Do so!
first winter Glögg Times strike! Midsommar
