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Monday, June 4th, 2012
A weekend in Ylläs
This last weekend Ale and myself went up to Ylläs in the Finnish Lapland. Ylläs has been my hideout my whole life where I can reboot, calm down and just be. So we practiced the fine art of doing nothing for a few days. Nothing can also be something.
Ale is behind the camera on the photos below. Check her blog out at alecampos.posterous.com
Monday, June 4th, 2012
Kuriren
Last week, Kuriren, one of the main daily newspapers in Luleå came by for an interview.
Vanessa and Håkan from Kuriren
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Ten things to remember from the last ski season
I made it to the “Ten things to remember 2011/2012” list on freeride.se… Check it out here (Swedish only).
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
A day in Stockholm
Today I spent the day at Haglöfs headquarters in Kallhäll outside of Stockholm working with future mountain collections. After the interesting day at work team manager and old friend Carl Hard took me out kayaking outside of Lidingö before a few drinks in town with Malin and Jossi. Stockhpm is supplying, as we say in Swedish…
A pleasant day at Haglöfs in Kallhäll
Carl Hård eating take-away sushi in the docks…
¨It´s a reason why I didn´t take the photos… I had to keep all my concentration to keep the kayak up-right…
Sthlm rocks!
Monday, May 28th, 2012
Dödlarsberget
Yesterday Ale and myself went to Dödlarsberget close to Älvsbyn and about 90 km inland from Luleå. I love going back to this little crag where I once climbed for the first time 13 years ago.
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Guides course no2 – Lofoten
I just got home from the last weeks guides course in Lofoten. It was a five-day course with emphasize on rock climbing and short roping.
Our 9 guys strong crew got led and thought by Mike Wright, C-P Engström, Martin Swenson and Daniel Jonsson. The weather was like normally in Lofoten with everything from calm bluebird to rain and hard winds, but we where able to go through everything on the schedule and ended up having a really good course.
On the first day at Kalle we went through the main climbing guidelines for the Swedish Mountain Guide Organization (SBO) (Swedish only) and got tested on our mountain rescue skills.
On Sunday, the second day, we did short rope training in the rain on the Rock N Roll ridge and on the third day we got tested on our rock climbing at the Gandalf wall.
On the fourth day we did a eight pitch route on Råna in big boots and on the last day we had efficiency training in big boots on Piano wall. In the evenings we had theory and dinner together in the climbing Café at Nordnorsk Klatreskole.
It was great to spend more time with the crew and to learn from really good guides and instructors. I´m looking forward to the summer alpine course in Chamonix, France and Valais, Switzerland that´s starting in three weeks.
For more info on how to become a mountain guide on the Scandinavian system, visit www.sbo.nu (Swedish only).
For more info on the UIAGM, check www.ivbv.info/en/
Welcome meeting at the Climbing Café
Instruction at Kalle
Eva
Calle P and Martin
Morgan and HK
Vågakallen
HK climbing up to rescue Morgan, part of our rescue skills test, with examiners Calle P and Daniel (strong man)
The Paradise, colder than normal
Theory at the Climbing Café
On our way to the Rock N Roll ridge
Short roping
The Rock n Roll ridge
Head instructor and mountain guide: Mike Wright
The crew on the top
Jesper leading a team
Calle P is following Sami on Gamle Rev (Old Fox) 6 at Gandalf
Calle P and Sami
Teams on the ground
Sami on one of the cruxes
Sami and Calle P following on Tromsö Expressen 6, at the Gandalf wall
Morgan, Mike and Eva
Daniel and Eva on our way to Råna
At the start of the climb
CH leading me up the lower parts of Råna
Can you find him?
Mike Wright following me over the black slabs
And up the crux, 6- in mountaineering boots.
Mike at the top
Oskar taking Daniel up Pianohandler Lund´s Rute
Sami, Tobias and Mike
Daniel
Oskar and Morgan taking us up in the rain
Finishing meeting
Morgan in the Presten couloir on our Luca Pandolfi mission. No, sorry Luca, we didn’t find your stuff, sorry…
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Gandalf
Today became a big day out with nothing extraordinary things done other than three rounds on the Gandalf wall and more rescue training (today´s topic was traverse rescue)… Now two days of rest awaits us before the start of the course!
Morgan following on; i don´t remember which route…
Gamle Rev (Old Fox)… We actually saw the old fox at the parking today!
Gandalf´s direct
Tobbe and Oscar on traverse rescue
The boys at dinner…
