Blog Title: Homeboy's Skiing Blog

Homeboy blogs skiing tips&tricks, road-trip stories, movie and book reviews, technical information, competition watch, resorts, news and photo sessions.

Think You Can Ride? (Motocross Related) - Snapshots from MX3 World Cup Start in Heinola, Finland

Whatever your take on motorsports, it is pretty hard to deny these guys can ride. Even for mountain bike geeks like us this stuff is very inspiring. Talk about making it look easy! I bet everyone that rides something two-wheeled can learn from watching these guys (and even skiers and snowboarders would probably learn a read more..

Five Good Reasons to Try Cyclocross

Skinny guys wearing spandex and riding wrong bikes with too narrow tires on the trails? (Source: http://cxmagazine.com/ ) Well, that’s what I also thought a few years ago. But what’s really the point of the whole madness? (btw. check the linked thread - great info and interesting debat.) Not that there should be a point for all things at read more..

Wasatch Lightning Boards - Modern Wooden Alpine and Telemark Skis

In May I wrote a post about how short skis suck long skis truck... For this guy the long sticks (and fully wooden skis) are still a serious business! (Source: http://www.lightningboards.com/) Whoa. Those skis remain the ones Marko described in his (very cool btw.) post about (ancient) skiing in Altai Mountains, Siberia. Talk about old school! However, lightning read more..

Puigmal (2913m), Catalonian Pyrenees, Part II - More Pictures

Whoa, first week after the holiday at work…that is always a shock, a real shock. We just wondered with Marko how it would be nice to take a few months off and just walk and bike in Val de Núria or any beautiful location like that - maybe just add a few blog entries once in read more..

Puigmal (2913m), Catalonian Pyrenees

Back in business again. I am still in a very lazy summer mood. So let’s start with posting some pics from the summer holiday. While in Spain, Costa Brava, for two weeks with the family I didn’t manage to do much of anything actually (besides the obvious laying on the beach, eating & drinking, sleeping read more..

Summer Compilation / Off-line for Two Weeks

Time to take some time off the internet and blogging. While preparing for the holidays and free time, check these posts older from this summer: Marko wrote an excellent article (with videos) about B.A.S.E jumping icon Jeb Corliss a while ago, read it HERE. Mountain biking is clearly our number one summer activity, so we’ve made quite a read more..

Mountain Biking Pics from Today?s Ride

This post will be kind of exception for us. Usually we like to try write something valuable, not just send pictures . Anyway, my last mountain biking related article got this comment from Carl of Made-to-Order Bikes, Atlanta: “Would love to have you write a guest post on our blog about this?contact me if interested!” Pretty cool. So, we read more..

Going Fully Rigid (Mountain Biking Related)

Now this is going to be interesting. I converted my Singular hard tail 29er to a fully rigid single speed. (See the earlier set-up here). While I was totally happy with the bike e.g. in the Tahko MTB endurance race a few weeks ago I thought it is time to test something totally new. I practically learned read more..

Matchstick Production?s CLAIM, the Greatest Ski Movie?EVER?

While we are still in the summer mood here (with e.g. lots of mountain biking content) the nights are already getting longer here in the northern hemisphere…some of you might already got that first itch for the coming ski season. At least starting to train for the slopes now might probably not be a stupid idea at read more..

Great Series of Basic Ski Fitness Posts from Winter Wonderings Blog

We just had the warmest day of the summer here in Southern Finland, temps rising to about 30 degrees of Celsius (that’s about 86 Fahrenheit for you Americans out there). Lots of people at work were leaving the office for the holidays today, and the day was pretty much spent with un-official festivities (such as drinking sparkling read more..