Christmas activities

So I have been kind of slack with the updates lately, mostly because I have been keeping myself busy. It's Christmas time, and a lot of things are happening. I have been able to ski almost every day at Storlien, and me and Fredrik (www.eurodancers.net) made a edit I have put up here and facebook etc.. I have also visited friends I don't get to see alot, family and other people. I also did a little partying on my cusins birthday at VIP nightclub, which was cool! Thanks for the invite.
Me and my friends took a roadtrip to Åre this last weekend, and I hang out with Oscar Scherlin while Fredrik got some park-shots for his movie. Watch out! I have been driving my car alot the last week, since I have to drive 1 hour and 10 minutes one way to Storlien every day. I think I have been driving 110 norwegian miles since I got home the 20th, that will make it a good 10 days.

But with this sport, you have made a choice, and by that it means I get to ski A LOT, but I also have to travel A LOT, either by car, train or airplains.

The Åre-trip was great, eventhough the kickers were kind of strange sometimes. But when I first got airborn it felt allright. Got to do a lot of rodeos, funky sevens, left and right 540's plus a few switch hits, a couple of switch tens actually. Sw 10's are my favourite trick, and I would love to do that a lot in the nearest future. Going to stay in Lillehammer and Hafjell for the next one or two weeks. My girlfriend are coming up from there today, and we are going back the 3. of January.

I have no more to say right now, other than merry x-mas and a happy new year.

..and yeah, have a look at some of the pictures I shot with my superphone the last week.

A super-early morning with absolutely NO COFFEE to drink. That sucks. Bu allthough I got to sleep a little while Even was driving for once. Usually I get up early and drive up alone, and then I definately need some coffee.

Åre skiresort ahead folks. Still pretty early, but sunny weather and park wouldn't keep me away from skiing, eventhough if it's rock hard and icy.

Andreas Håtveit's season on DVD, like a kid on Christmas eve I checked the mail, and THERE it was. Stoked. Andreas is such a great skier and motivator. Spinning both directions easy like eating snack, and hard working like no-one I know.

Monster, it keeps you awake on afternoons like this while checking email and writing blogs.
I got home early from Storlien today, the lifties wouldn't let me ride without my pass, which I forgot at home (Idiot..) So I sneaked in a few times and jumped on the lift in the middle of it so that no-one saw me, haha. I feel bad, but it's not like Storlien is the center of the world, so they should recognize me and let me ride anywho.

3 times 18 years birthday, my friends from the left to tha right; Simen, Even and Rune. Even with a lovely scarf attatched to his arm, due to a crash in Åre, earlier that day. Wow, this day was a long one.. 20 hours, with driving, skiing, driving, eating, partying, sleeping.. feeling bad the day after.

Saaay, watch out for updates from Hafjell terrain park, it's going to be sick!

A day at Storlien - Web Edit!!

Today I teamed up with Fredrik from www.eurodancers.net to film a edit to put on the internet, mostly for the Salomon Team Blog. But since I love you so much, I figured I rather put it up here on MY blog first. So here you go, a fresh edit from todays action at Storlien resort, in Sweden. All filmed before lunch. I am mad stoked about this one actually, cause it's not like you have unlimited amounts of resources on a day like this, in the middle of christmas and all. And the jump was kind of mellow, not a large one, and the light was shitty when we first got there. But the sun came out, and the session was on. Walkie-talkies were used, grabs were held, and tricks were put down. Epic!

Enjoy!


A day at Storlien with Steffen Hamre from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

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Wanna know were I'm at right now?

I am now back home in Hommelvik, just in the middle of Norway. I arrived Lillehammer after the Us trip the 17th of December, and headed straight up to Hommelvik while having the flue AND cold, so my shape was not the best ever.

It's christmas night tomorrow, and I was thinking of setting up my flat-bar rail to shred some christmas-pretzels (PIMP!) before going to church, (NOT PIMP!). So stoked on rails right now, and I just talked to Elling, my team manager in Salomon. I'm getting new gear in a week or two, which is PIMP!

Today I woke up early, and jumped into the car for a 1 hour and 15 minutes drive to my home resort, which is called Storlien on the Norwegian/Swedish border.

It was sick to see the scenery in the morning while driving, and having my morning coffee. Forgot monster today, also, as every other day.. DOOOH!

Storlien was packed with people as allways (NOT really), and the lift-line took like 30 minutes every single time (...or maybe more like 2 seconds)... Anywho.. I met up with my man GM, and Eivind Bye (which got to be a uncle for two lovely twins this morning, piimp.. Good luck with changing dipers. ) We shredded jumps and a little pow-turn every now and then when the light got bad.

I got to do similar forewards 540's with tweaked mute grabs both ways, and a few 540 tailgrabs which I learned two days ago. I also got to do a unatty 990 to flat out in the bottom of the landing.. piimp.. No test bunnies or snow were hurt in the impact of the landing.

Aaaand... I got to buy a monster after a cool session in the slopes, before I headed to my cusin's 18 years birthday, and my friend for a short shit-chat.. YEAH!

And I talked to my girlfriend, who's comming up here on the new-years-eve.. It's gonna be special for sure..

Last few days....

Skiing, unpacking, skiing, packing, partying, driving car faaaar, unpacking, eating norwegian food again, skiing at Storlien, buying a stretchy belt, skiing at Storlien, birthday, catching up with friends, eating cookies, and now it's christmas again.. AND YEAH, I packed the last presents tonight, I am so late at that, allways.

A few cabins down in the valley.

Nothing special, just a BLURshot of moi.

Looooook, at the sky ladies and gents.. Cold and cozy.

Money-booter. 12m roll-over. It's nice for a pre-season jump.

Haven't you heard!?? I'm officialy in the pow-busines now. I'm going to travel the world, doing just super-powder-turns in shallow snow. Single-turns only.

Finally Norwegian again

I got home last night after 25 hours of traveling. It is almost a must to be away for two or three weeks when you have to travel that far. I took some sleeping pills to get to sleep right away on my first flight to frankfurt, allthough it didn't help that much. When I got to Lillehammer, (were I am at now), at 21:00 at night, I fell asleep at once. After waking up this morning I thought all jetlag were long gone... Well, I should have thought twice. I just feel like going to sleep every second now, and staying awake makes me look like a zombie.. blaah. After realizing that my e-mail inbox didn't have anything cool for me, today as other days, I felt even worse.. Now I have to sit here, trying to keep my eyes up.. Hopefully I get to shred a couple of laps in the Hafjell park if the weather allows it. And yeah, my car has a flat battery, again... What a beautiful day.. What a beautiful daaa-aaay....

See ya all, gotta go, off to Hafjell to check out the park maybe..

Steffen.

A long journey back home..

Denver Int'l Airport, a long journey is waiting.

It's not a lot of bagage, allthough I had to pay up 150 $ this time as well.. DAMN!!!!


A little delay from Denver - Frankfurt. All though it took only 8h 30 mins.

Close to Frankfurt, woke up after taking two sleeping pills. I slept almost the whole way over, so smooth.

Ooooh yes, finally there.

No I am at Frankfurt waiting for 4 hours and my internet time runs out, see ya soon!!

Mr.,S

Last day skiing, and unlucky Mr.Wallisch

Today was my last day skiing in keystone before christmas, had an awesome three weeks here. Got to learn a whole bunch of rail moves and a couple jumps too. The whole dew-tour startfield was up shredding the A-51 today, cause it's qualifying tomorrow ( Tuesday) or training, haven't quite figured out yet.

Steffen and Kim doing left/right rodeo5's with John Vandervalk following us with a camera in between. Sick shot, I love this one!

Me enjoying the sunny weather for once!

Anders Backe and Kim Boberg, which I am staying with are competing and I think they got a couple tricks up their sleeve. A lot of guys was kicking it hard, trying to get the last finish on their tricks for DewTour. Me myself had to just cruise the last two hours due to a VERY soar knee. Many others had a few physical problems at the end of a hard, sunny, tricky day, and especially Tom Wallisch who has been killing the medium line in Keystone lately. After one of my runs through the park I stopped to watch Tom's last jump in his line, a right or left foreward 9 to the bottom. One of his skis just carved out, and he twisted his knee while his ski fell off. He landed on his side/stomach ON his skis and stayed in the landing with great pains. You could see it at once that something was not right. = Broken Collarbone. Hope you get back quick son!

Now I am all packed up and ready to leave tomorrow. Just stopping by the nike factory outlet, and head back to Norway and Lillehammer tomorrow.

See ya.S

Photoshoot at Keystone

Today was so much fun at Keystone's A-51. John Vandervalk, a photographer followed me and Tom Wallisch all day taking pictures, and some of the turned out SO SICK! I am so stoked to finally have some shots. When we got there at 9:30 today it was bluebird, even though it was supposed to be snow. We had cab 7 - sw 7 - cab 5 runs at second try, which isn't usaual. Usualy we have like two or three runs before we start doing tricks. But today I barely got off my bag before I was doing 540's. So stoked!! But after a couple of runs it started getting grey and a bit snowy. But John hooked me up and we shot some followPHOTOcams, yeah you heard me. That's not easy to do, but some of the shots were sick! After finishing my bagel-lunch in the chairlift, Me, Kim Boberg and Anders Backe + JF Houle shredded rails. Which ALSO is so much fun theese days. You have no idea how sick the railpark up here is.

After we came back to the hotel, PK had moved out, and we went to subway for a nice little dinner, followed by a cold beer and jäger in the hot-tub, which was pimp!

Also got to do a little work-out, been a long time since, but I'm figuring doing some this christmas to shape up a little more before the contests start.

Enjoy Johns Pictures folks, tomorrow is probably snow-stormish in Keystone, look out for pow shots.

Boyaaa..

Sw 7 Octo grab.

Ditto, Sw 7 octograb

Sw 9 mutegrab, so sick theese days!

....and my signature trick I've been working on. Funky Seven. It's basically a bio 180 to my back, then getting the truckdriver grab and finishing off with a misty 540.

Funky seven, different view.

Jump session day in Keystone

Today was bluebird for once in Keystone, and a LOT of skiers were at the park. Clarke gave us a ride to the hill, which was nice. I had an awesome session jumping today, and took a lot of pictures of the large kicker line as well. Hopefully it will open soon, so that everyone could throw down some real tricks. This is going to be my last four days at skiing in the US before Christmas. So maybe I will put up some updates from Hafjell, and some rail and jump shredding/practice at Storlien at Christmas. Paal went back home today, and so PK moved into my room, which is pimp.

Mike Clarke has a very nice monkey hat, he meant it were worth the money. Agreed.

Salomon / Monster vs Head.

Look at the big pile of snow! This is going to be the second jump in the large jump line. It is so sick!! Hopefully it will open soon!

Today's lift-line was retarded, which is not pimp! So many people stoked and ready to shred!

The medium/mellow jump line, again. Cab7 - sw7 octo - sw5 japan. Iz nice!

See you all, check back in for more updates!

Keystone with a lot of fog going on

Today was true gray and whiteout in Keystone, couldn't see much actually.


The jumps were pretty nice from the morning, but got rock hard in the afternoon. People were still throwing down tricks as rain falling, and a lot of sick skiing actually. Pk, Oscar and Jon were like a train all day, skiing 3 ft away from each other while jumping. Me and Backe were practicing cab 7's and different slow spins with grabs. A lot of fun. Looks like the big line is about to open soon also.


I did go home a little early, due to a little pain in my arm after crashing on a stupid rail trick I have done a thousand times before. Hopefully I get better until tomorrow. Kim Boberg is stuck in Chicago, letting me have the funniest time of my life while telling me how ironic things are when NOTHING turns out the way it should. Haha, he is so cool. Maybe we will get some shredding going down with Kim tomorrow, which is sick. Just watched episode 11 of Dexter season 3, and it is freaking me out. So intense and thrilling.. damn, I can't wait until MONDAY!

Jacob Wester's working on his sw left 720's. His unatural. Many guys are practicing for the Dew Tour Slopestyle, and therefore so many of them are doing unatural spins. Since in Slopestyle you should impress the judges by spinning both ways in order to get a high score.

Oskari Raitanen and his friend from Finland chilled on the bus with me and Backe + Paal and Joachim (the boarder). Check out his promo on www.newschoolers.com dope! He also was killing it in the park.

Backe who has been here a couple of times, is the daily food coach. He tells us were to eat, and when. It's like having a dad who can't take anything serious. Haha. Paal to the right is leaving tomorrow, and I'm going home on Tuesday. It has been so sick skiing here these three weeks, learned so much. Hopefully this season will be great!

Gotta go to bed now, but a videoblog post shouldn't be to far away. Might not be the next few days, but I will keep you updated on what a I'm doing. Gotta get the switch rightside tricks ready for the season!

Boyaaaa!

Rail day - With PK and Backe

We have been shredding rails ALL day in Keystone today. Me, Pk and Backe made a little videoblog today, hope you all like it. And yeah, pk moved in to our hotel, so now we are like a Norwegian camp here. Sick! Gotta get some sleep, tired..

Keystone edit with Pk, Backe, Steffen & Paal

Keystone A-51 Terrain park!

The Area 51 Terrain park in Keystone is now open for the year with 5 jumps and 20 rails. Watch out for jump edits very soon!

So stoked right now, woke up at 5 and then 7. Now I wanna hit jumps!


Keystone A-51 Medium line overview from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

Steffs

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas.

We are in snowy Colorado right now. It has been snowing more than less since last Thursday. There is not much to say either, been skiing a little powder, and sitting inside watching the weather. And, yeah, I got a American number now, it's (970) 455-4775, call that instead of my norwegian cellphone number. It's beeing switched off for the three weeks while I'm here.

Just uploading some photos from the last days, I don't expect you to get over-exited when seeing this photos, but this is what we have been up to.

A lot of snow in Breckenridge resort right now. Prob. 1 meter.

Paal is getting stoked up on receiving his wide-angle lence for his HD-Camera. Now we are ready to shoot some follows when A-51 jump line opens.

There are a lot of Mexican people up here, and so there is also a lot of Mexican stores. The owner of this shop gave us a quick boot-tour and wanted us to buy some. Haha,

Look! I'm the I in FRISCO. Stoked.

We packed our bags for one week, and then ofcourse we have to wash some clothes every now and then. Every day the maid on our hotel set the window on full gape in order to get rid of the stank that twirls around in the air. Haha, poor lady. Don't used to ski bums like us.

Keystone 2-3 December

www.steffenhamre.com keystone 2-3 December from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

A few shots from the last days

Tomorrow is for sure a day off. I am so tired after skiing non-stop for a week now, and we need the day off tomorrow. Maybe we stop by Copper Mt. at Woodward to hit some trampolines and foam pit. It is boring to lie on the bed all day, doing nothing. So a little trampoline jumping might get us stoked on skiing again. It's always nice to do something else when you have been skiing non-stop for a long time.

Looking at the sick scenery in American nature.

Throw down at the down-rail

Flat 540 bow-and-arrow

Tired, but happy guys.

Salomon and Monster..like a glove

Steffen R Hamre, AJ Kempainen, Pekka Hysalo

Off-time. When you are tired after many hours in the slopes, hiking and hitting jumps and rails, there's nothing better than to sink down on the bed and watch Dexter.

Lake Dillon I presume. Probably Lake Dillon, or some other lake near-by. Sick view.

Keystone with a lot of people

Today we decided to go to keystone, all though it's 20 minutes longer with bus than to Breck. When we first got there, I noticed that my bindings were all fucked up, and the screws fell out. Finally up in the hill. A lot of pro riders, and other sick skiers slayed the park as always. We hiked rails with the finish guys, who, like Norwegians, hike a lot when first getting to ski good park.

Later on the day the opened the jump and the sun came in, awesome. We thought that maybe we got more runs if we hit the slopes straight down to the chairlift, passed a couple of slow signs as well. When arriving the chairlift after a Chineese downhill between me and Paal, the skipatroles gave us a hell of a lesson, and wanted to pull our liftcards for a week or two.. That would have sucked sooo bad!! But we were like kids wanting candy, and talked us out of it!! So close though!!

And in the end we missed the bus with THAT much, and had to wait for 30 minutes. Which you can se in this stupid video-blog-post. Sorry for Norwegian Language, if anyone wonder what we are saying, I can ensure you of that it's not any inteligent!
And yeah, the Area-51 Park in keystone with three jumps in a line are soon to be open, can't wait!!!


www.steffenhamre.com Keystone fooling around, and a jump from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

Stormy Breckenridge Video

Today was snowstorm-ish in Breckenridge. We hiked rails for 5 hours straight anyways. There was so many people standing in line for the lifts, so we rather walked. This is a small compilation of some of the rail-moves that went down today.

Enjoy!


www.steffenhamre.com Breckenridge 29.Nov from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

Breckenridge rail-edit With a few more skiers

Snowy day at Breck today. Got up early to shred fresh groomed park, and no people. 9.15 AM. Stoked, sick and so much fun! A lot of skiers and boarders stood lined up ready to drop in all the time, and so many sick tricks were thrown down. Fabio impressed me big time with his sw 270 on - pretzel switch up - pretzel 450 out. Check the good time edit, enjoy!


www.steffenhamre.com Breckenridge rails, day3 from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

Us day_2 - Breck rail session

Went to Breck today, 20 minutes instead of 40 with bus, and less hiking and much more funny rails. And yeah, today was thanksgiving and of course we forgot to run to the store in time. I ended up with buying a frozen burrito from a gas station.. and water.. what a thanksgiving!


www.steffenhamre.com Breckenridge 1 from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

Just hanging around in Breckenridge.

Mr Paal posing in front of the park-banner.

"Oh, it's the Norwegian twins again!" Or what about, NO!

First day in Keystone park

So today was the first day of skiing in Keystone, Colorado. 20 features, a stair-set and a 35 ft jump. It was sunny, and super sick skiing were thrown down. Bobby Brown, Ahmet Dadali, Matt Walker, and many many others were killing it. The Americans are really shaped up these days, and it's really cool to ski good park before Christmas.


Keystone day1 - www.steffenhamre.com from Steffen Hamre on Vimeo.

Random shots of todays action:

Monster Energy - Unleash the beast!
The Keystone pre-season park.
Stoked kid on his way to the slopes.