| Welcome to oskarsvensson.com Check around, take your time and enjoy some of my photos, personal info and other... Photos - My homepage including the photogallery will soon be updated - so stay tuned! Eskilstuna Kuriren - 100601 My friend and photographer Per Sanden published a few skiing photos in the local newspaper earlier this week - check it out here (a larger copy will soon be posted). NM in Riksgransen - 100518 Today was supposed to be the qualification day here in Riksgransen but due to poor visibility the comp is postponed and the qualification will be held tommorow instead. You can follow the race at www.bigmountain.se. "Once you make that first turn, your life will be messed up forever" - Warren Miller 100511 ...And so we have applied to the sports college again, for the sixth time to be exact! Maybe I can begin this year anyway? However - here is a great photo from Engelberg in March. The wind was heavy this this day and lots of sluf coming down and covering the take off point but with enough speed it all turned out good anyway!
Summertime! Check out 2117 of Swedens new summer collection ! Dalbello Freeski Team - I have recently signed a new contract with Dalbello Ski Boots from Italy - Check out their stuf at www.dalbello.it !
Photogallery will soon be updated... Back in Sweden - 100429 Season is about to end and I am back home in Sweden, waiting for the sesaons grand finale in Riksgransen the 18th of May - Scandinavian Big Mountain Championship - . Below is a couple of shots taken from our latest photoshoot. Photos taken by Jesper Molin - www.jespermolin.se / info@jespermolin.se. (C)
Photo : Jesper Molin (C) Info@jespermolin.se
Photo : Jesper Molin (C) Info@jespermolin.se
Photo : Jesper Molin (C) Info@jespermolin.se DUZ Image - Check out my friend David Zappas Armchair-Project by clicking this link . One image is taken from our photo trip to Arolla Ski resort earlier this season. This project is still under progress and will later on be showned in several exhibitions, great work! Powder in Engelberg! 100405 The past few days heavy snowfall has led to great conditions here in Engelberg and today was no exception - approximately 40 cm of fresh powder and clear sky during the afternoon. Together with my friend Linus Archibald and parts of the Ski Lodge Posse we had a great day on the mountain, perfect after being home in Sweden for one week!
- As some of you might now I work with youth problems back home...this is not one of those guys - its just my friend Linus... REPUBLIC 100330 New skis on the block! The Swedish brand "Republic" releases this fall a serie of Jamaica inspired freeride skis. Below the Montego 105 and Ocho 96 showed at ISPO earlier this year. Besides skis Republic also produces protective gear such as helmets and backprotection. This will be my new skisponsor from now on! "Emancipate yourself from mental slavey, non but ourselves can free our minds" - Bob Marley 1979
Brand new skis from REPUBLIC presented at ISPO 2010 Back in Engelberg! 100315 After two weeks on the road we are finally back in Engelberg, before Jesper Molin and Johan Carlborg flew home to Sweden we had one day with great weather and snow here in Engelberg. During the last session of the day I unfortunatly managed to hit rocks in the landing while jumping the ice in Steinberg. My skis broke but I am alright, I believe this confimrs that it s better to trie land on your feets rather than the hip or back!
Just before fridays last jump at Steinberg, landing looked great but right under the snow - just rocks...
Linus Archibald above the top of Jochpass... just another day in paradise! Murren update... This is truly a varied skiing area - together with our local hero and mountain guide Fritz we have skied everything from big and untoched lines from the top of Schilthorn to some sick forest in the area of Winteregg!
The view from the top of Schilthorn - 2970 m.a.s.l.
Jumping the roof from Schilthorn, taken trough the lens of Johan Carlborgs Iphone!
Linus Archibald is a bit confused after finding a hole at the end of this sweet pillow line... Murren 100309 Yesterday night we drove of from Disentis and after some minor incidents on the road we reached our next stop - Murren - around midnight. (We didn t quite realize that our skimobile below was drinking gasoline like an elephant...) Anyway - this place is pretty unique, the village is situated on a plateau close to a 800 meter high and vertical wall and it is only accesses by cable car. From our hotel Alpenruhe we can also see the dramatic north face of Eiger and the 4150 metre high Jungfrau summit, pretty stunning!
Linus refueling our beloved Caravelle... again and again... FAT CAN From now I will start riding with Fatcan ski poles, check out their solid and stylish collection at www.fatcan.com!
FAT CAN at ISPO 2010 Better days! 100308 Since the weather has been pretty crappy during our visit here in Disentis we where all stoked to wake up to clear blue skies and some fresh snow! Below you can see some nice chutes from the upper part of the mountain.
Apathy in Disentis... 100304 After a few days of mellow weather, dliffjumps with hard landings and innumerable lefturns in front of the flash the fog has finally struck Disentis. Together with my fellow friends Linus Archibald and Jesper Molin behind the camera we are now spending most of our time at the local bar Nangijala trying to keep the mood up with imported Super Bock, at the moment 2 for 1 so there is still hope!
The magnificant view from Disentis alpine restaurant.
While reading an article in the all amercian Powder Magazine - about jaded young guns - I found myself up in the corner skiing on rocks... quite a surprise! The photo is taken by David Zappa.
Big Mouintain vs. Freestyle While we are doing the best drinking our sorrows away while waiting for the pow - The boys of Secondhands production mostly checking their status on Facebook... Weird?!
- Maybe if we are lucky... Jesper analysing todays snow conditions... RUSSIA BM 100225 A picture from the photo annual in Russia BM, photo by: Jesper Molin
Nissan Mystic Experience 2010 My broken ribs are getting better and the last days days I have been out skiing here in Engelberg, everything is tracked out but I am super stoked to be riding again! So finally I decided to go with my friends to the FWQ comp in Italy this weekend... Weather looks a bit crappy but hopefully good enough to race! BRANT 100217 Here is a picture from the last issue of Brant, photo by: Fredrik Schenholm.
Arolla update... 100204 Here comes a couple more pics from our trip to Arolla. Big thanks to Andre Anzevui at freerideexperience.ch, Pascal Charlet from Coeur du Valais and the crew at Grand Hotel Kurhaus. This place is truly worth a visit!
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(C) DUZIMAGE 2010 Recovering in Engelberg... 100204 Since I am suffering from a minor injury at the moment I am spending most of the time in the workshop at all freeriders headquarter; The Okay Shop. Last night Johan Johnsson came up with some quite original ideas in ski development...
BRANT 100129 I got a nice photo published in the new issue of brant magazine, check it out! I will upload a image from the mag later... Photo by Fredrik Schenholm, www.schenholm.se.
Arolla 100129 Driving to Arolla is nothing for the faint hearted, the road is winding and narrow and goes up above 2000 m.a.s.l. Our hotel is located close to the skilifts and the view from the room is stunning. Unfortunatly our first day here in Arolla was just a big white out so we did not get much done. Wednesday was better, we had bluebird almost the whole day and even if it was almost four weeks since last snowfall we actually managed to find some untracked snow.
Oschar Hubinette lost (as always) in Arollas backcountry and my view from the hotel room at Kurhaus
It is not always easy to go where you wanna go...
Grand Hotel Kurhaus in Arolla Roadtrip The upcoming week Oscar Hubinette, David Zappa from DUZ image, Richard Amacker and I will head to the south of Swiss for some photoshooting. First stop will be a small and relatively unknown skiresort called Arolla. I will get back with some updates as soon as we are there! Photoshoot with Jesper Molin and Doctor Visits in Engelberg 100124 Last week have been full of freeriding and shooting together with Jesper Molin www.jespermolin.se. Unfortunatly I managed to cut my chin twice when jumping some cliffs so know I dont look to pretty... Anyway, here are some photos from the last days.
Me, Jana and Viktor on the very top of Titlis waiting for the mystic alpenglow to come...
Waiting to drop in...
On the left is a classic cliff wich unforutnatly led to another cut in my chin, to the right my friend Larssa doing his best to take care of the after effects. What would I do without him?
On the left I am waiting to drop in at Graustock and to the right it is the alpenglow burning the last hour of shooting in Engstlenalp.
Linus Archibald and Jesper Molin
My friend Larssa is giving me some first aid (again) after stomping a cliff with maybe a bit to flat landing...
On our way home after a long day... 4Skier Magazine (ITA) 100111 Just got this three pages published in an article about Engelberg at the Italian freeski magazin 4Skier. Go to www.4skiers.it for more info about the magazine. Photo and writer of the article: David Zappa at DUZ Image.
BM Ski Magazine, Russia 100108 This photo from Disentis just got published in the photo annual of 2009 in the Russian ski magazine BM. Photo by Jepser Molin.
Back in Engelberg! 100106 After some work in Sweden around New Year I am back in Engelberg again and today Titlis offered blue skys and powder snow above about 2000m. Together with my friend Daniel Furberg www.danielfurberg.com and Tommy "Mr Duct Tape" Snowboarder we where riding Steinberg over and over... Tomorrow we are heading for Andermatt for some freeriding and photo shooting.
Heading back home! Beutiful view from Titils top station Photosession togehter with Fredrik Schenholm 091223 Here are a few photos from our sessions with Fredrik last week in Engelberg, in the evening we had som really cool light and snow was peerless! To contact Fredrik use info@schenholm.com or make a visit at his website www.schenholm.com.
...On my way home trough a beutiful scenery 4Skiers Magazine 091215 At the moment they start printing the next issue of the Italian freeski magazine 4Skiers, together with David Zappa at DUZ Image and a couple other riders I got a nice article published about late season freeriding in Engelberg. Stay tuned for some pics from the mag! Powder and ski photography! 091215 Snow has fallen in Engelberg, the last days have been filled with a couple photoshoots together with Fredrik Schenholm (www.schenholm.com) and Oscar Hubinette, some tranciever practice and even a floorball tournament in Andermatt with old friends. Unfortunately the vikings from Team Sweden lost in the qualification against the local freestylers after some truly questionable calls... ;)
Before skiing down Jochpass after an evening photoshoot, beautiful like Nangijala! Fredrik and Oscar H packing up for another spot... New number! Unfortunately I had to change my Swiss phone number, here is the new one; 0041767864567. Engelberg 091204 After lots of coffe and about twenty hours me, Anna and Uffe finally drove in to Engelberg!
Waiting for the ferry in Denmark... Arriving at Alpine legends headquarter in Engelberg! Saturday Night Snowjunkies! 091128 DR ZIPEand BRANT hosted a rememberable party in Stockholm last weekend! I brought some friends from back home and we had the perfect kick off for the upcoming season!
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive - Neil Young 1989 091120 I got a call from Anna at Alpine legends today, they are driving to Engelberg on December second and luckily I get to help them with the driving this year aswell! Drop by their homepage and read about the most dedicated travel organization I have ever met! Climbing and coffe, a classic combo! 091120 Yesterday I met up with my old friend Anders Wilson at Eskilstuna Klatterklubb. He is one of Swedens top climbers so I was a little nervous for having a hard time but it all ended in lots of coffe and some really nice lines both at the boulder and the big wall. While I have some issues with a purple boulder line Anders is more like running around in a horizontal mode. Wich only confirms my theories that Anders recently must have mutated into Spider man... He recently climbed a 8b called "Breaking the law", heavy!
Problem solved... Eskilstuna klatterklubb at a regular Thursday After Ski Party! 091111 Soon time for the seasons first after-ski, check it out at www.snowjunkies.se
BRANT magazine 091013 I got this nice cover on the next issue of the Swedish freeride magazine Brant, in stores October 15th. Deep n steep! Photo by Jesper Molin (www.jespermolin.se)
Snow magazine 090922 I recently got three pages published in the freeride magazine Snow Mag, if you scroll down the blog you can see the pictures. Photgrapher is David Umberto Zappa at DUZ image. Visit his new website www.duzimage.com ! Coming up... 090915 Right now the upcoming winter season is being planned. I am moving back to Switzerland again in the beginning of December and I will stay there most of the time during winter and spring. The website is also being updated so stay tuned!
Final run "Branten" in SBMC, photo by: www.martinlindroth.se Scandinavian Big Mountain Championship, Riksgransen 090512 - 090514 The last comeptition for the season and as usual it feels like "everybody" is present, except maybe the sun... But even though there was some bad weather coming in the race organizers managed to complete 3 out of 4 runs on Nordalsfjall. Unfortunatlfy I fell in the final after jumping a big cliff. After this I will head home and wait for the summer to kickoff!
090406 "Stenslip" at Wendelycke, Engelberg. Photo by DUZ Image, SNOW Magazine
090407 Steinberg, Engelberg. Photo by DUZ Image, SNOW Magazine DUZ Image is coming to Engelberg for a photo session in the beginning of April. Montafon In the beginning of Mars I am going to Montafon for a photoshoot together with Jesper Molin and a few other riders, check out Jespers homepage and showroom! www.jespermolin.se. My portfolio will also soon be updated! Blizzard From the end of February I will start riding with Blizzard skis. Check it out!
On the road... 090224 Last two weeks I have been travelling most of the time, after Fieberbrunn I went for a photoshoot in Disentis together with Jesper Molin, Patrik Leidstedt, Kristoffer Frenkel and parts of the Secondhandscrew. I seriously considered purchasing a snorkel while I was jumping from tree to tree in the forest. There was shitlouds of snow and from what I have seen we got some nice bangers there! After that me and my friends from Engelberg headed for Winter Mystic Experience in Monterosa, the next Freeride world qualifer. Unfortunately I crashed in to a tree so now I am back in Engelberg, riding powder with my friends and chilling a few days.
Going down the Marokka face in Scott Big Mountain, Fieberbrunn
Scott Big Mountain Contest, Fieberbrunn 090207 Me and my friend Johannes Haugen have been skiing in Fieberbrunn for three days now, the comp is postponed and riders meeting is tomorrow, hopefully the event will start in Monday! So far there is blue skyes and mainly crappy snow...
Johannes Haugen on the top of Marokka looking for gnarly lines...
The Marokka face for contest day 1
Hiking in Fieberbrunn Rip it, dont slip it! 090203 Not to much snow in the S colouir these days...
ISPO and Fieberbrunn 090202 Earlier today me and my friends Patrik Leidstedt and George Infanger came back from Munich and ISPO. After two days with lousy food and lots of walking I am looking forward to sleep in my own bed instead of a Volkswagen Caravelle. I must say that both 2117 OF SWEDEN and DR ZIPE had some really interesting things going on! Tomorrow I will ski with my friends and then I am going to Fieberbrunn on Wednesday for the FWQ contest. The website will also be updated soon. Coming up! 090107 By the end of next week the photographer Per Sanden is coming to Switzerland for approximately ten days so stay tuned for updates on the photogalley! Powder in Engelberg! 081222 After a few days with pretty lousy conditions there are lots of powder and blue sky in Engelberg again! Today we have been skiing powder and dropping cliffs in "Zults" and yersterday afternoon me and my friends put first tracks on Steinberg, quite epic! Preliminary competitions 2009 February 5-15 SCOTT Big Mountain Fieberbrunn, FWQ (AUT) / February 15-19 Freeeride de Chamonix, FWQ (FRA) Engelberg 081205 After twentytwo hours and lots of coffee me and my friends finally arrived in Engelberg. There are lots of snow here but the weather is getting warmer, hopefully that will give us a good snow base. Tonight I am working my first night at Spindle so now i need to get some sleep.
Free radicals and Carlsberg... 081110 Last friday night me and my old buddies Ncklas and Jenny went to Munchenbryggeriet to watch the new FR movie, on our way we stop at SOS sportswear store and got a few free bears (Jenny might have taken a few to many though she where sleeping during the movie). Anyway.. thank you Majsan! Really nice to watch some good skiing and catch up with some old friends from past seasons...
DR ZIPE RbK/JOFA Coming up!
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