Wind-gusts and snow was what the skiers had to go through today.

Many Norwegians and Swedish skiers had to go through slopestyle qualifiers today.

60 was supposed to be 9.

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Thomas Dlpads and Alexander Aurdal moved on from the qualifiers.

Me on the other hand experienced a bit of altitude-sickness.

Not the best condition for slopestyle practice.

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I skipped skiing today.

Here are some photos from the qualifiers:

 

First part of the course.

Two rail features, and then two jumps.

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Thomas Dlplads getting ready for his first run.

Russ won the qualifiers today, here is getting ready for his first run.

Actually it s a true replica of a high-school rail somewhere in the US.

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It s been done a number of times in different snowboard-movies.

I like that things like this come into slopestyle-courses.

Tonight I visited the Salomon-house for the first time.

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Such a big mansion with a lot of good skiers in it.

I had to get a new pair of skis mounted and stayed for dinner.

Skiing tomorrow, can t wait!

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