Having good times in AK, staying at the Alyeska Hotel which is sweet. Nice hotel rooms, spa, gym and great food. We have been flying one day so far and it was killer. Me and Cody Townsend skied about 12 lines each. Yesterday we skied with the owner of Alyeska Resort 2 hours before the lift opend. Nice fresh powder and just 5 skiers for about one hour. Then we jumped in the snow cats and went for a good day in the backcountry. Check in later for more pics and more updates, /HW

The toughest challenge may this season may not be Verbier Extreme after all :-) It could very well be a competition back home in Åre. Imagine the following ingredienses: 1) twohundred competitors on top of Åre mountain 2) mass start (everybody starting together on the signal) 3) shoulder to shoulder battle down 800 vertical meters of lactic acid producing slush moguls, tucking to beat the wind resistance 4) a kick-ass after ski party at the bottom of the hill 5) first down wins It will for sure be something else than the Freeride World Tour...

It was a tough start here at the FREERIDE WORLD TOUR in Squaw Valley. We didn't know what face we were going to ski. Trameface looked pretty shitty again with tons of debris at the bottom but some people really wanted us to ride it. We got up at 5.30am yesterday to scope a line at tramface but they cancelled that veneu after a big avalanche came down during the safety inspection made by a mountain guide. At the riders meeting in the afternoon we found out that we finally were going to ski the Silverado venue with a new format. Two runs and the best one count. That format really opens up for progression. No more excuses for not busting a trick. We got up early today to have a first inspection. The face looked pretty good but it was hard to know what the snow was going to be like since it been so warm the last days. I picked out a line starting of with a big drop of a roof then going over a steep roller and finnish of with a big cliff. I did a backflip of the roof but I over rotated a little but skied away fast. I nailed the bottom cliff too. The results after the firs run was Kaj Zackrisson first, me second and Cody Townsend 3rd. Team Salomon killed it! I know it was game on in the second round. I stuck my backflip clean and then did a 360 of the roller and landed the same bottom cliff perfect again. Such a nice feeling. A lot of riders skied well today and with the format we had it was sure to be a close call between us all. Both Reine and Aurlien skied well and Tim Dutton threw down a sick run with a nice backie at the top. It was surprising but also kind of good for The Tour (the over all title) that both Julien Lopez and Candide Thovex crashed today. I really liked this format and I think it's the way to go to make our sport progress and grow bigger. However I only think its good for smaller venues... Verbier is going to interesting! March 20th. Later, Henrik

Most of the photos are from our own fishing boy Jacob Wester. Thanks!

just arrived so more info will come shortly..

The weather is not working with us here in russia.. It seems like this event will not happen.. Check out www.freerideworldtour.com for more info. //H

After all the deep powder skiing in Canada it was nice to ski some in slushy conditions in warm weather in Krasnaya Polyana... It has been super warm here for the last week, it rained to the top and it looked like it was going to be a bad competition. Last night it snowed about 40cm and got cold wich totally changed the conditions. Now it look like we will ski some pow in the contest but there is still a few things to look out for. One - weather, it doesn't look good untill we have to leave russia on tuesday and Two - Medvedev and Putin are in this area and normally they give us no go for helicopter! Thats how it is right now and it has been for the last two years! :o) What are the odds that the president of Russia will be skiing in Krasnaya Polyana three years in a row during the FWT? Not so big.... Check out www.freerideworldtour.com for updates. //Henrik

The internet wasn't working too well up in the lodges so that's why I didn't wrote some updates. To sum up my trip to BC, Canada I have just one word - Powder! After shredding with the Salomon crew and Field Productions at Mica heli for a week I went to another mountain lodge, Mustang Powder. I met up withRory Bushfield and James Heim for a week of sleddin, catskiing and powder skiing. This was my first trip with the MSP crew this year and we had a really good start. We skied smaller lines, pillows, cliffs and a booter in both epic sunshine and full on snowstorm. Now and on my way to Sweden for a couple of days before I go to Russia for the first stop at the Freeride World Tour... //HW

I took the night train from Åre the night of 26th. Got to Stockholm and boarded the first flight to Frankfurt. I fell to sleep right away and woke up 40min later when someone grabbed my arm and said that we are in Frankfurt and people were standing up and laughing at me. There was something wrong with our plane so we had to change to another one. That took about two hours all together so I new it was going to be tight to make my connection flight to Calgary which was leaving at 14.00. We came in 13.35 and I was the last one to get to the gate. I new it was a close one for my bags to make it so I asked if they could find them for me, because I really needed them that day. "-Oh, Mr. Windstedt. Today we invite you to our First Class", the lady said when I was stressing about my bags. I had been upgraded for free to first class.. and first class with Air Canada is quite something. I had my one booth for the eleven hour flight! Of course my bags didn't make it so it was super stressy to sort everything out. I met up with Filip Christiansen (Field Productions) and Åsmund Thorsen (skier) at the airport. They had come in one day earlier but their bags were missing too. We all got a hotel room but at the last minute they decided to take the night bus to Revelstoke to at least get out to Mica Heli with the rest of the crew. I was going to stay for one more day at the airport to hopefully get all of our bags. On the night the day after all of our bags arrived. I started driving, fast, because I new I was going to be super tired in a couple of hours ( I had woken up at 04.30 that morning). It all went smooth and I did about 140km/h for about 2.5 hours and 300km before I collapsed and had to sleep. Then it took me three hours to drive the last 140km. I had to sleep every 20min! The next morning I had to drive for another two hours pretty much straight out in the forest. It was all dark and snowing so it was kind of annoying to have the high beam turned on, I had no radio and no one to talk to. It was Depressing. Finally the heli picked me up and as soon as I got to the lodge it was just to get dressed and get out in the field. And what a day. Deep pow and nice open tree skiing. We got a few shoots too so now I'm back (mentally) :o) I will post some more photos tomorrow..

I'm going to Canada tonigh, first stop will be Mica Heli, close to Revelstoke. 8 days of heliskiing with the Salomon team and Field Productions. The week after I will be at Mustang Powder together with a MSP crew. I can for sure say that I'm pretty excited for the two weeks!!! Stay tuned for more news during my time in Canada. //HEnrik

So me and fellow ski photographer Mattiasfredriksson.com got our second cover on Powder magazine. The photo is from the ski resort Hanazono in the region Niseko on Hokkaido in Japan in Asia... As you can see in the photo, the shop wanted to make sure that Swedens two most famous athletes are close together even though we are cover boys on two different magazines :o) Ibra! Check out the last cover and many more photos on mattias website.

Europe didn't have too much to offer for skiing this fall so me and the photographer Mattias Fredriksson went to Canada in hope to ski some powder. Whistler had their best start ever and our friends who lives there kept telling us to come over and ski deep powder. It was snowing 20-60cm per day for 10 days straight. The day we came to Canada it was raining in Whistler, up to the tree line. Which sucked. So after milking the top to at least get one photo in soft snow I went to the Blackcomb terrain park to have some fun. I met up with Mark Abma and we slayed that park.... well maybe not but it was really good jumps and sunny every day! After four days of hitting jumps I was pretty beat. We talked to some people and found out that Revelstoke got spared from the rain and it had even snowed a little too. So we drove together with Dan Treadway the six hours and it was so worth it - Sunny, powder and the terrain here is awesome! This is one of the best places I ever been to. And I've only skied here in early december. This place has some potential. I didn't have a good camera with me but check out the photos.

Norwegian snowboard star and movie producer Fred Arne Wergeland followed me around the world during last season to document my life. Check the teaser out on YouTube! Photo credit to Hank De Vre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWKh8Gp2K_0

On Oct 3rd-2009 my first baby arrived. A little boy who weight 3950g and was 52cm long. Both mom and baby are feeling great and it will be such amazing time ahead.

I will update you all with some of the last couple of months' news :o) But I will for sure "blogg" something about what's up right now too.

Today was the qualifier for the SBMC 2009. It was a long day, more then 140 competitors was on the starting list. I had bib number 130. I was super nervous (like always) before my run but it was mostly because I didn't decide which line I was going to ski untill I came up to the start. Finally I decided to ski the middle line with a big drop in the end. I pulled myself together and skied the line as I wanted. And it was enough to put me on top. Stooked. It will be some long days to come so I might not be able to update untill the contest is over, so please check out the latest SBMC 2009 news on www.bigmountain.se Have it nicely! //Henrik

Right now I'm on my way to Riksgränsen for the annual big mountain comp. I feel a lot of pressure to do well since I didn't do so good on the Freeride World Tour 2009. It will be tough but I'm ready to fight for the title this year. I hear it's sunny and nice in Riksgränsen right now and I can't wait to go ski. I've been coming to Gränsen for the last 13 years and this is my 16th trip up here. It's alway a good time and a perfect way to finish of the season. Stay tuned for more info on the condition and how the comp is going. Later, Henrik

Quite the opposite worlds I've been in for the last couple of days. Going from the wilderness in Haines, Alaska, USA to downtown Paris, France. We're here for a photoshoot with PEAK PERFORMANCE. We took some pics this morning and then we had the rest of the day off so me and Seb Garhammer went for some sightseeing. We went up in the Eiffel Tower and had a look at the Louvre. We also walked around in some nice parks and this was the first time this year i saw green trees and heard the birds sing so it was nice. Not so warm here, about 15 degrees, but I definitely got some taste of summer now. Just three more weeks of skiing and then I will take a long brake. I think I 've been skiing a total of 132 days (give or take) out of 180 so far this season from okt through april. More news coming soon, //Henrik

We have had really good days up here in AK. Good weather and perfect snow, untill yesterday. It's been a lot of wind lately and it hammered the faces we would have liked to ski. We found a small zone that we could work and I finally got one or two tricks in. Today we couldn't find anything with good snow so we ended up doing straight lines. After Daron did a super sick one that was totally windpacked, 1000 feet vertical drop and about 50 degrees steep we wanted to do a speed line together. We found a good place to do it, 2000 feet high, between 40-50 degrees and smooth. We went up and we had to wait 30 min before everything was ready to go. I went of and Daron followed me and about midway down he passed and I followed him. When we had maximum speed we had to cross a old sluff track in the middle of the run. There was cold snow in that part of the run and I was just behind Daron. I couldn't see much and I had to focus on both him and my own line. When I saw him jump over the old slide track I new I had to do the same but I was lower doen the slope then he was which made mine outrun a little more tricky. After I did the jump I had to face a 50 meeter long mogul section and that just didn't work out when doing 120 km/h. I got punched in the backseat, high sided and started to tomahawk. Everyhting was firm and it was like a never ending crash. They think I did around 12 full rotations, loosing skis, poles and goggles. The g-force spinning around almost ripped my jacked of too. When I stoped I took a couple of secons to get my head together and try to feel if I was injured. My back and left arm was hurting but not so bad so I said on the radio that I was fine. I found one of my skis, it's a Rossignol race ski but it was broken in two places and the rear binding was ripped off. I didn't found the other ski but we found to rear bindings which means I ripped both bindings of. I have never ever broken a pair of Rossignol skis before, because they are so good but then again I have never crashed in that speed before either. It was by far the fastest crash I have ever done and the most tomahawks too. I'm happy I didn't hurt myself more. Tomorrow will be a downday for sure though, I don't think by back and neck are readdy to huck that soon.. //HEnrik