I was at Ruka during the 49th calendar week.
The week before the FIS mogul skiing world cup event.
Nothing special, minimal day light hours, nice groomers and a lot of people from various national teams on pre race training camps going crazy on the moguls and kickers.
Not really any off piste possibilities due to very thin natural snowpack.
I mainly tried to learn how to ride twintip monoski switch.
I think bigger Ville has allready done some skinning and moonlit pow ridin' further up north.
happo on saturday was really good- enough to walk up for 3 laps. kurobisha was spanking good.
goryu top to bottoms were also really good. dare to say bottomless for the first 1/4. 1 small section of bumping rocks underneath but that ended once on the cat track.
the last mellow slope was about 1 foot deep of pow for most of it, but phased out fast near the water ramps(enough make it to the bottom)... 3rd run seemed much more haggard than the first ones.
both days the snow was blower and all face shotty. crazy long roosters with the wind. I had two boards out(lent one to a friend) and just one scratch.
Finally tried out Moon Rabbit for some late night apres- the white man is not welcome. The nihon one next door accepts our kind.
I suspect the alpine is firing where its holding snow but it might be too light.
I was at Ruka during the 49th calendar week.
The week before the FIS mogul skiing world cup event.
Nothing special, minimal day light hours, nice groomers and a lot of people from various national teams on pre race training camps going crazy on the moguls and kickers.
Not really any off piste possibilities due to very thin natural snowpack.
I mainly tried to learn how to ride twintip monoski switch.
I think bigger Ville has allready done some skinning and moonlit pow ridin' further up north.
happo on saturday was really good- enough to walk up for 3 laps. kurobisha was spanking good.
goryu top to bottoms were also really good. dare to say bottomless for the first 1/4. 1 small section of bumping rocks underneath but that ended once on the cat track.
the last mellow slope was about 1 foot deep of pow for most of it, but phased out fast near the water ramps(enough make it to the bottom)... 3rd run seemed much more haggard than the first ones.
both days the snow was blower and all face shotty. crazy long roosters with the wind. I had two boards out(lent one to a friend) and just one scratch.
Finally tried out Moon Rabbit for some late night apres- the white man is not welcome. The nihon one next door accepts our kind.
I suspect the alpine is firing where its holding snow but it might be too light.
Good weekend.
LOL Moon rabbit is a cricket mans haunt in the summer but I guess you have to walk in with Kev
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what do u mean they don't accept white people? what happened?