Suddenly I step on my own pole, with full boot power right above the basket. The bamboo cracks! Shit happens, I think but keep calm. My daughter was kind enough to carry my poles to the lift while I carried her skis, which I had just laid on the snow to continue walking, as she […]
Two poles. One pole. Or no poles at all. Some researchers believe that the pole is older than the ski, but apparently people have done well no matter how many poles. In Borgafjäll lives a living legend of Swedish skiing, and he has been skiing without poles since 1992. After a long life as a […]
Recently I was with my family and friends in Borgafjäll. In my eyes one of the best and most versatile ski resorts in all of Sweden. Here are well-tuned ski routes that offer perhaps Sweden’s best forest skiing. And here are rolling slopes that scream for our steel edges but are only half groomed to […]
I grew up 200 meters from a ski slope where I could start the lift myself as soon as we had enough snow. Those days we had snow every winter, even here in Österlen. I could never even imagine that snow would be in short supply in the future. Although my mother was politically engaged […]
Why should I make your ski poles when you can build them yourself? It’s both fun and usually easy to create things yourself, at least that’s what I think. I’m not into this to peddle poles trying to get rich. I do this to cause less damage to the climate and the environment. Bamboo ski […]
Six years ago, I went on an igloo trip to test how traditional equipment compares to modern materials; wool against synthetic fiber, Ventile cotton against Gore-Tex, tar-waxed wooden skis against fresh powder planks, etc. Most of the old natural materials performed well, in some cases even better than the modern materials. But one thing was […]
Hold on! Here comes a long post, but if you care about the climate, you should read the whole thing. I have explained earlier why I started making bamboo ski poles. It is simply the most eco-friendly and durable ski pole material available, and bamboo creates itself solely with the help of sun, soil and […]
I don’t really know why I came to think of the adjustment possibilities for ski pole straps when I saw a bottle opener on the kitchen table. But for some reason I got an idea of how to adjust the length of the strap and how tight it should be around the wrist, with just […]
Sure! My bamboo ski poles are not fully finished yet. The straps are still under development. But I need input and experience from more than my family to be able to make the best possible ski poles. My plan was to make prototypes this season and to have a ready-made concept and site for them […]
After a good night’s sleep and traveling the most comfortable way possible, we arrive by train to Kittelfjäll starving for some skiing; and testing my new ski pole ferrules. Will the baskets stay in place? Will the ferrule stay in place? Of course, the train station is in nearby Vilhelmina, but after traveling from Hässleholm […]