powder snow Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/powder-snow/ One more mountain line Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:03:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg powder snow Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/powder-snow/ 32 32 90835253 Good times & deep lines at the Mimmi Freek´End in Pyhä, Lapland https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/10/27/good-times-deep-lines-at-the-mimmi-freekend-in-pyha-lapland/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/10/27/good-times-deep-lines-at-the-mimmi-freekend-in-pyha-lapland/#respond Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:41:31 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1729 From above, our group of skiers and snowboarders looks like a slowly moving pearl string necklace, as we navigate our way through snow-covered thin spruce trees to the Karhunjuomalampi wilderness hut, following the ski track laid by our guide Katja Heikkinen. The surrounding Pyhä National Park has received a foot-deep […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/10/27/good-times-deep-lines-at-the-mimmi-freekend-in-pyha-lapland/feed/ 0 1729 Past, Present and Tamok with Jarkko Henttonen https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/05/17/past-present-and-tamok-with-jarkko-henttonen/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/05/17/past-present-and-tamok-with-jarkko-henttonen/#respond Fri, 17 May 2019 16:46:12 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1400 Professional snowboarder, ski magazine owner, freeride contest organizer, FWT judge, snow safety author and lecturer, husky musher, mountain guide, ski area developer – the common denominator in Jarkko Henttonen´s CV is his passion for the mountains. I sat down with him to talk through his career and current resort project, […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/05/17/past-present-and-tamok-with-jarkko-henttonen/feed/ 0 1400 Tracing the roots of Japanese skiing in Nozawa Onsen https://www.thesnowalker.com/2017/02/08/tracing-the-roots-of-japanese-skiing-in-nozawa-onsen/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2017/02/08/tracing-the-roots-of-japanese-skiing-in-nozawa-onsen/#respond Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:56:59 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=343 It is two a.m. and dark outside. I watch heavy wet snowflakes gently floating down in the halo of a solitary street lamp behind the tinted glass window of our traditional ryokan style room. Unable to sleep, I get up and quietly push open the sliding door with the paper panels, trying […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2017/02/08/tracing-the-roots-of-japanese-skiing-in-nozawa-onsen/feed/ 0 343 On the Myoko Express https://www.thesnowalker.com/2016/11/09/on-the-myoko-express/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2016/11/09/on-the-myoko-express/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:46:17 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=244 After spending a sleepless night in a hotel situated in the middle of Kabukicho´s red light district in Shinjuku we headed for the busy Tokyo Station. Sleep-deprived, we pulled our ski bags through a constant stream of people trying to read the signs written mostly in Japanese. In the end we managed to find […]

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