all about the benjamins

So what did we do today worth writing about.

well actually nothing, but because I am god in this little sphere on Internet I get to tell you what to read, so just crawl up and swallow what I feed you..  

MMwwwooohhahahahahaha

Seriously I need to get meself a country and a people to rule and dictate over..!

No I had a great day as usual..

Started of a bit slow, couldn't get my trix straight..  but after a while I got going and at that time I met up with C.G ,and I actually made a new one, ending up staying until closing, goofing around in the terrain parks..

Down in village we met up with a few guys from the house, which had found a american 100 dollar bill, so it was free beer, and nothing tastes better then free right.

Then we ran around town giggling and hiding each others boards from one and other..!

Friends.. so fun to have  

:)

clean you ear so you can hear the drum

Mad vibes..

Me and C.G went to maybe the best concert during the stay, and year..

Talib Kweli decided to end his Canada tour here in Whistler.

and It was good.. goooooooood

to bad the sound wasn't the best, it was like old Berns home in stocktown, and way to much bass but he rocked it good and a mad feeling in a narrow basement location.!

Can't believe we actually got a photo with him hehe..

like two 14 year olds.. 

But of course there was some downers even this night..

If it would have been in Stocktown the audience would had been older and a bit more mature, but still rockin it right..

That's the problem here..all the kids never been drunk before, fuck I actually miss the age controlled clubs home in sweden..

It's not just as fun with hundred's of piss drunk teenagers puking and screaming..

and it's spring break now aswell, and that brings the slum from USA up here.

and on a concert like this it's unavoidable not having geeks around you ordering ' helror' and think they are the shit.

So yesterday I stood in the bar and this half Indian douche next to me just being an ass and thought he was the shit, took like ages for him to order and changed it all the time and nothing was right and so on..

and he had the ugliest cloth on..

a slimy multi coloured shirt, cheap fine pants and pointy shoes like you had in the 90's and made your feet look 5 numbers bigger, like we called canoes or 'myggjagare'

I think you get the picture..

I just couldn't let that fly could I..

So when I finally got my two cuba libre I turned to him and said..

- hey man, nice shoes.. just don't forget your fuckin paddles in the bar when you leave..

thumbs up and left..

except that the night was good and Talib rules.!

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a day in pictures

First I slept until late, then got up in the sunny afternoon and nailed a few new trick in the parks.. mad fun in the sun.!


My cheek is not hamster like anymore.. but I have now a very nice pastel coloured neck..

as you also can see here.. 

snuck in with C.G and friends on there free pizza night.. mmmmmhh

stuffed meself.

and here..

My and C.G at the Talib Kweli concert.. drinking rum and coke and having fun

Yeeeeah.. Talib in action. mad concert!!

Put your hands up, put your hands up..

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all alone in the dark

So Renen has left me..Gonna feel mad empty not having him around to hike, chat, go hot tubing, just hang with and all that.. you get pretty close sharing a 3x2 meter room and a bunk bed..

And who should I now build a shack with pillows in the lower bed of the bunk and watch movies with..?? :)

It has been really fun having him around, and much easier dealing with the drunk..

don't think I would of had made it without him..

Thank You!

So as a last night celebration to the good times we went out for fancy dinner and beer instead of cooking at home..

or actually he bought me the dinner.. what a gentleman ;)

a steak topped with half a lobster and sauce bearnaise.. can it get better..?

This morning we got up early again.. but this time to catch the bus to Vancouver..

I followed him there to spend a few hours shopping before he went to the airport and I headed back for a few more weeks rinding and finishing up the season.

I really didn't get a fair chance to see Vancouver last time so it was really nice going there with someone.  

and with a second opinion I think it's a fair city, not NYC exactly but sure do have some funky good shops for skate, snowboarding, sneakers and other Hip Hop related stuff..

But also a fair deal of homeless crazy people!!

Damn just a block away from Gas Town, which is a sort of Vancouvers answer to 

lower east side/soho,   there are like thousands homeless druggies walking around like zombies!!

we saw one laying on the ground leaning against a statue petting and playing with a dead dove..!!

and then just a few streets back west, there were no trace of them..

never seen anything like that anywhere!!

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I was right

Yupp.. time to get jealous again.!!

Today we hooked up with C.G and Rich at 7 o'clock this morning to go cat skiing.!

That's when you jump in the back of a snowcat and ride up the mountain for some great backcountry pow without any lifts, crowds, hikes or standing in lines.!

The conditions weren't the best and what you dream of, but pretty close.

We managed 9 runs in forest powder in 5 hours.

the first two were a bit boring and to easy, but they were like test runs to see what we could handle.. but after that it was crazy fun.! And the guides were really good and funny but still professional.

one, Lee-Ann, is apparently 2 times world champ in extreme skiing!!

the only thing was that we would like to have a bit longer runs and with no stops. but with a avalanche risk of extreme it's maybe better to play safe right..

I still got some best riding in my life, and the last couple of goes they just let us loose to go nuts.. at lunch break we wrestled in the snow and found a little pillow to throw flips out of,  just like a bunch of kids hehe..

And what a luxury getting driven up there in a big machine with bus kind of seats. :D !

This was really a dream come true.. next time we go for some heli-skiing.!!!

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epic

They got a place called 7th heaven here on Blackcomb mountain were we go for some off piste riding.. and you can say that I'm on cloud 9 at the moment..

As I mentioned earlier it's been snowing here for 5 good days, and for 2 days we have been up at 5.30 for something called fresh tracks..

You pay 15 dollars for the chance to get up the mountain a bit earlier then the rest, kinda a V.I.P to taste the fresh snow dumping during the night..

It's mad fun.. and because there are a few others that also would like to get some fresh, you want to be first of the first..

So you get up at 5.30 and just take your clothes on and walk to the gondola at latest 6 to stand in line for a good hour. at 6.20 there's some 50 people behind you and at 6.40 there's a couple of hundreds.!!

Both days we were good enough to be in the first 3 chairs up.. that gives you some more time for breakfast at the top..

and it's a mad.. it's like old women on a sale, so you need to be quick and know were to get your stuff..

When you come up, there's a big buffe' with pancakes, yogurt,fruits,scrambled eggs, bacon,juice,tea, coffee,muffins and more, pretty good actually.

Normally you have max 20 min to eat before they open up the mountain.. if you first one up.

and the trick is to bring some canteens to stuff with all you can fit.. cause you don't want to be to full when riding, and 20 min it's kinda stressful cause you wanna get out there as fast as possible..!

So when the jars and canteens are full you head out in the first light of the day and wait for the rope to drop, and then it's a race to the best runs of your life..

It's a must to have a plan, and it's really good to know where the sweet spots are, so it was really good we did some recon missions when it's was cold the other week..

you people that rides know what I'm talking about, you others just have to try to understand how good powder we had for the last couple of days, and what an incredible blessing it is to be absolute first out there making runs in completely untouched snow on mountains sides, in chutes and with waist deep pow blinding you when turning ..!

Yesterday we had a 12 hour day up there.

up 6 in the morning, had three amazing first runs before the crowds, then continued hiking our secret spots all day and when they closed the lifts at 4, we hiked one last spot and didn't hit the base until 6 in the afternoon.!

Just in time for a beer and watch a rail jam going on down the village..!!

I can't believe it's true..

And with an absolute certitude in my voice, we're gonna have an even more awesome killer day tomorrow.!!

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lazy

hehehe..

just gonna link it to C.Gs blog..

I agree what that dude said. :)

click here...

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I'm alive.. I'm ALIVVVEEEE!!!

Feels soo good to be a human being again..

After a week in bed doing nothing and a failed attempt getting up from bed before 2pm yesterday.

I managed to crawl in my thermos and up the slope this morning, after only 4h of sleep..

kinda put my day rhythm up side down..... boy you turn me, in side out... round and round..

And being home with the drunk all days really tests your patients..

he's not to found of me having a friend over.. and he shows it clearly by slamming kitchen doors and grunting all the time..

We do have a lot of fun on his behalf though, that's one good thing living here with Renen right now, we can just laugh at him and his stupid ideas.. and everything he does, he contradict him self, and he's always home just drinking beer smoking and cleaning, so that's good, no mess here no sireee..

But I hate not having the money to live where I wanna live.. So I'm stuck here a few more weeks.. then freedom..

but I mean, it's really close to everything and it's cheap, for being whistler that is..

and second of all, he's supposed to be in Mexico by now.

that's another thing with people that are addicts..  lot of talk, no action..

well the first couple of runs today were really good, but as I said, I have been in bed for a week so I don't know if Renen agrees with me.. he nods in silents..

But they made me a bit nausea.. still on the pill..

But I took it slow and easy, no crazy stuff, and we made a day out of it.

6 hours pow riding isn't to bad is it..!  

and tomorrow we're on it again..

I'm back baby!!!

karma sharma

Ok.. what the fuck did I do in my past life..

getting a bit tired of this shit happening right now..

First just before Renen came I got sick and got me some antibiotics right. 

well they didn't help that much, as soon I was done I started to feel drowsy again, and after a few days I had to take a day of while my friends had fun on the mountain..

Then I go and smack my head into concussion, and as cherry on the top I got sick again and are on my second round of antibiotic in 4 weeks..

So not only my brain damage, that actually is much better, but I have to deal with 10 more days of medication and rest..just when I was ready to go after the accident.. and we just got the last dump of the year.. on a year where dumps are rare.!!!

So what the fuck did I do... haven't been sick in a long time so why now..!!

And I think I don't just speak for my self when I say I do everything to get my friends the best of everything always..!!!

so fuck you karma I'm leaving you!!!!

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white men can't jump

Here we go again..

Just as i started being a bit more cocky and doing better, bigger trix, I have to go and do this..
Me and Renen was up on the far side of Blackcomb scouting out some good runs for the expecting snow this weekend..
In the end of the day we passed a few backcountry kickers that I just had to try..
I did everything right, even did a test run to check my speed.. and then I just do something weird last second weigh change on my pop from the kick and totally throw my balance of..

the result.. a Concussion and Memory loss..!

The heavy impact made my knee meet my shin bone, and not just caressing it gently.!
I was alright in the beginning but when I asked Renen the same questions over and over on the way down he just knew something wasn't all good..

But I made it down, got home and made some dinner before Renen talked me into going to the medical centre to have it checked out, and by this time my left cheek was big as a handball..

at the hour 8pm we arrived at the medical centre and by then I had asked the same questions a hundred times and didn't remember the last 5 hours of my life, not how we got off the mountain, what we had for dinner or anything, just a few glimpses of the day and the great view at the peak..

Apparently I acted like a old senile 90 year old babbling away about same things, and on the way down, Renen told me, We accoutered a group of girls sunbathing in their bras, and I'd just stopped and ogled them having Renen pulling me in the jacket away from there cause the girls were getting uncomfortable..
hehe gotta be me for that, when syntax error I'll guess the reserve power takes over..
that being the reptile brain..

So no riding or other physical activities for a week, not even watching TV or reading a book..
just flat on my back staring in the roof not to stress my brain....


Not for sensitive viewers...!

old boys old boys

What you gonna do when the cold comes for you..

well you can hang at the library and catch up with the newest surf and snow magazines for free and download some movies or just play some backgammon or connect 4 at your local coffee shop and chill with a hot coco, or vanilla latte like Renen..

And that's just what we did. 

Just taking the day off doing literally nothing feels good for once..

And what's the point getting up on the mountain when it's under -20 and wind close to 15m/sec..

I'll tell ya what point it is. it's NO point that what it is ..

And I think there's something in our walls, or maybe some funky additaments in the cheap beer we're drinking, cause we starting to have real problems getting up in the mornings..

or maybe we just like spooning and snoozing to much..

more free stuff to do:

hot tub at Hilton

free coffee and muffin after the slope at Marriott 

free spring roll,hamburger snack every friday afternoon at Fairmont 

you're as hard as ice

Well what can we say..
Haven't got snow for a couple of days and the temperature is dropping close to -15 C,
it's getting icy in the slopes..
So we asked this girl from Lule to describe in her own words, both how we don't like our women nor the conditions in the parks..!!




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brothers in pain

So my friends, the time came for Renen to get hurt..

I have maybe earlier mentioned that there's quite a lot of people walking/limping around the village with a bandage or on crutches.

and as late as this afternoon we saw two people getting helped down the mountain in a sledge after slamming a jump in the park..

Me, still have a tingling pain in my back bone and today I strained my back a bit, but the funny thing is I didn't do it on a stunt, nope not old grandpa, I did it when just turning normally in the slope hehe..

Good thing the recovery options is pretty good here, I went to the gym this afternoon for some strokes in the pool to stretch the muscles and then for some water massage in the hot tub..

then home for some film, home cooked burgers and swedish berries.. :) a type of candy like 

gott&blandat..

And yesterday it was due for Renen.

He likes going in pipes, but this one is a monster, and the last couple of days a very icy and hard monster..

so on the first kick he slips and lands on his cute little bum and comes down to the lift with a twinkling tear running down his cheek crying.. 

-It feels like I've been in a prison for black people and dropped the soap...

yeah the mountains is hard against the hard, just like the Phantom..

at least that's the official report..

the unofficial is that we share a bed...

Best Buddies Quality

So Renen and I have been playing in the snow all week..

That's why there has been an absent of report, didn't wanna brag and nag the same thing all over..

but it has been an amazing and great week..

Renen is still a bit cold so he falls asleep almost directly after the slope and stays there until morning breaks..

Saturday Finally came and gave us a very needed 2 days off after hiking and shredding pow from 8 in the mornings until closing time at 15.30..

We just stayed in bed, watched some telly and headed in to the village in thew afternoon to look at a slopestyle competition.

They where good but was a bit disappointed.. It's actually more fun watching it on TV then real life..??

Well on the evening we got invited to Helens again for some outside patio hut tub and BBQ with some poolside pool (billiard)  

I mean gotta show Renen the wizzla life right.. :D