I looked through my videos from the winter and found this clip. The video is from a downhill training in Beaver Creek, USA. To hook a gate in about 120km/h is nothing I recommend! But this time I caught a lucky break, came out of it with only minor injuries, and was able to race the next day.

Today I finally finished my last examination of this semester. Six hours of intense economic work resulted in a academic performance I´m really happy about. What the teacher thinks, is something else.. My effort coming in to the test has not been the best, a lot of exiting stuff has been happening these last weeks, which has made me evan more unfocused as a student..

We are back on snow, and will have five days of training at the summer ski facilities in Juvass, Norway. This is in the national park of Jotunheimen close to Norwegian highest mountain Galhøpiggen(2469m). So far we have had great weather, but very warm tempratures. The weekend supposed to be colder, and we hope for harder snow. Anyway, we are having some nice days at the office..

Since we finished skiing 2 weeks ago, I have had my hands full by catching up at school. I study Tourism at the University of Lillehammer, and did one examination last week, and another two days ago. It for sure feels good to be productive also outside of the slopes. One more exam in the beginning of June and I´ll be done for the summer.

This video is captured in Kvitfjell today. The lift is unfortunately closed, but the slopes still looks in great shape!

The 2009/10 season is over, but we are already well underway preparing for the next. The last weeks we have been stationed in Hallingdal, Norway putting down long hours in the hill. The conditions is absolutely tremendous! We have been switching between the resorts in Geilo, Ål and Hemsedal, only an hour's drive from each other. In this part of...

This week we are staying in Hallingdal to start the preparation for the next season. We are lucky to have cold nights, clear days and good firm snow. We have switched between training in Ål and at Geilo, this gives us an advantage in the way that we get different snow types and hill profiles. The focus this...

Our Norwegian teammate Mona Løseth had an accident at todays giant-slalom training in Hemsedal. She broke both the fibula and her tibula in her shin. This was very rough to hear, and another reminder of how brutal this sport can be. The surgery will be done tonight, it´s nothing else to do then to wish her good luck. With her amazing talent and mental strength, I´m sure she will be back, stronger then ever.

I skied with a GoPro Hero Camera when I was practicing in Kvitfjell during the Easter holiday. Never seen skiing from this angle before, and some interesting pictures came out of it. This is a video from some of the runs.

I won the National Championship in Super-Combined today! Aksel won the silver and Espen Lysdal the bronze. In yesterdays downhill I finished 2^nd, behind Aksel, in front of Kjetil. Read more for photos.

Today I skied the last World Cup race of the season. It´s crazy how fast the season moves by. I had a good race today, and skied well in both runs. The sad part is that I straddled a gate in the second run, and did not finish.

We are enjoying ourselfs here at the finals in Garmisch. This is some photos from yesterday.

A wonderful week of racing in Kvitfjell, Norway is over. Both conditions, weather and atmosphere was as good as it gets. It seems like I have lost the speed touch, and my results over the weekend was nothing but disappointing.  This is something I kind of was prepared for, so I´m not that upset about it.

This week the World Cup has moved on to Kvitfjell. Feels good to be back home. The hill is in an excellent shape, everything is all set for a great event. The training run today went ok, and with some more attacking spirit at the raceday, I think it should be possible to make some top 30 results.

I know one thing for sure, there is nothing I love the way I love skiing. But there is also nothing that can drive me crazy like this sport does.

Today we competed in Super-Combined. This is a day a have been looking forward to for a long time! Preparations have been good, and I was super psyched to get out there, aiming for the top.

The weather cleared up today, and we finally got to do the Olympic downhill race. The volunteers have done an amazing job with the slope the last days, and we skied a fair and worthy competition. I finished 31th , 2,38 out and was actually pretty happy with my performance. It´s a nice feeling to finally ski without knee pain, and to only focus on finding more speed.

Today it was time for the first training run of the Olympic downhill. Some wet and dark clouds came in over the mountain, and I ended up waiting 5 hours at the start before the training was cancelled.

We have had a week of great training in Nakiska. The weather and snow has been absolutely amazing, and I have got to practice all four disciplines. My skiing has been improving every day, which is very motivating.

It´s finally here, every athletes wet dream, -the Olympics. Our team has done well this season, and the Norwegian Olympic Committee drafted all our five World Cup athletes for the games in Vancouver. That is a big achievement for us!

Yesterdays race did not really turn out the way I planned. I hooked a gate in the second run, and did not finish. In slalom we clear every gate by about 2-10cm, sooner or later you miscalculate and carve your ski on the wrong side. It´s part of the game.. Even though I know this, it sucks!

In my opinion is the World Cup race in Schladming, the coolest slalom race on the planet. The arena fits about 50 000 people, and every year it´s full! The atmosphere is breathtaking, and it´s simply a great great experience to get to take a part of it. This race is tomorrow at 18.00 houers, watch it!

The weekend in Kitzbuhel is over. It has been a great event, beautiful weather, lots of people and perfect conditions. I only raced the slalom, witch did not turn out the way I hoped....

French skier Jannnick Bertrand had some problems in the Kernen-S at the Lauberhorn race in Wengen last weekend. Normally I don´t like to post videos containing crashes, but this one hilarius and has a good outcome. Enjoy!

My slalom shape has been pretty solid lately, today I had another good day at work! After skiing two good runs in the Wengen slalom I ended up in 11th position.

After Adelboden the tour moved on to Wengen. This is one of the greatest events of the season, during the weekend they are expecting about 100 000 spectatiors in the hill! The Lauberhorn downhill is also the longest in the circus with alenght of 4,5km and a runtime of over 2,30sek. Yesterday we raced the Super-Combined competition.

Today we raced in Adelboden, Switzerland. I was lying in a 10th position after the first run, and ended 12th  when the race was done. After the disappointing result in Zagreb on Wednesday, I am more then happy with the result today.

Yesterdays race did not go quite as planned, I skied a terrible first run, ended up in 31st position and did not qualify for the second run. Skiing has really felt good lately, this makes yesterdays result even more painful. Anyway, I think I learned a lesson, and are looking forward to doing a better job in Adelboden Sunday.

January 2nd we flew down to Munich, Germany. From there we continued south by car to Kreuzbergpass in Italy. We have had two beautiful and high quality training days in the Dolomite mountains.

After over five weeks on the road it´s finally time to head home. Since we left for Canada in November I have visited 9 countries, experienced temperatures from 30c° below to 35c° positive, spent countless hours travelling, and probably skied close to 10 000 gates. There has bin up and downs, and today I´m taking a well needed Christmas break.

The period after the crash in Beaver almost two weeks ago has bin tough. First of all you get a punch in the face mentally. To “get over it” often takes more time then you want and expect. It feels like you are skiing with a devil on your shoulder, telling you –“you can´t do it!” Right now I´m struggling to fight back , show him that I can and to get rid of him…

Kaz Maeda from our excellent clothing supplier Phenix came to see us in Beaver Creek. Ha gave me some photos from his stay:

Today we competed in Super- Combined in Val d`Isere, France. First we raced a Super-G run, followed by a slalom run. I was skiing terrible and had one of my worst days in a long time..

After the Super-Combi race in Beaver Creek friday, I was exhausted, had pain everywhere and was not fit for more racing the rest of the weekend. Aksel visited Miami on his way to Lake Louise a couple of weeks ago, and recommended me doing the same on my way back to Europe. Long story short I flew from Denver to Miami on Saturday morning, and have had three wonderful days in the sun. From minus 25C i Colorado to pluss 30C in Florida is definitely healing for both body and soul.

With a light sunburn and a smile on my face, I´m haeding back to reality in the mountains of Val d`Isere, France tomorrow.

Getting out of bed today, I felt like shit. I was stiff and soar from neck to toe. The knee was also pretty painful and I was limping like a drunken seaman… I was not feeling ready to race in any way. I figured some fresh air would do me good, and went to the inspection with the other guys. As I put on my skies and going down the hill, it felt a lot better then expected. After doing some slalom runs in the warm up course, I decided to race.