My first magazine photo of this season is from Tamokdalen,Norway. This shot was published in Frequency magazine. photo: Jani Karppa

I did this slash while Nick Visconti was handplanting in Saas Fee. Japanese Freerun and Italian 5th season mag. ran this photo in their latest issues. thanks Matt Georges for this one.

Car Danchi was one the best trips I have done. Whitelines Magazine features huge story in their newest issue. photo: Matt Georges

Italian 5th Season Mag. also ran the story from our Car Danchi trip to Hokkaido, Japan. Photos: Matt Georges

One of the first issues of Onboard had liftline article of me talking about competitions. photo: Matt Georges

My home resort Ounasvaara is located in city of Rovaniemi,Finland. For years I have been starting my season over there riding on articial snow pumps that are on the hill before its opening.  Some might call it weird but to me it has been one of the best ways to get back into riding. photo: Jani Karppa

You have to use your imagination to be able to ride this snow because after it lands on the ground there is only a short amount of time when you can ride it soft. photo: Jani Karppa

Dreamy looking pillow fields are usually hardback. photo: Jani Karppa

While temperatures are jumping up and down there are days when snow gets soft as well. photo: Jani Karppa

Shovel work is needed once in a while
photo: Jani Karppa

Those are not clouds on the background. it is snow flying from the snow cannon photo: Jani Karppa

Sometimes best days I get to ride my home resort actually happen before its opening. this inverted 540 happened one of those days. photo: Jani Karppa

Last January we did a trip to Niigata,Japan. Local guide Takumi Nagai invited us to stay at his place and showed us some spots that no one had ever ridden before. The amount of snow and Takumi´s hospitality made our trip to Niigata as one the highlights of the season 2013. All thought our goal was to get video for the upcoming movie my filmer Teemu Lahtinen ended up capturing few photos from trip as well. Talking about multitalent. Laama is the MAN!

It is early november and I really want to go ride powder! But I have decided to grow my hunger and wait until January before going for my first filming trip of the season. There is one location that always stands out to me as best way to get back into powder and filming. I have been there 14 times and it never gets old. Hiking and riding the lightest powder in the world. This location is JAPAN!   photo: Sami Valikangas

Sharing is caring! Saku Tiilikainen (behind) is coming to Japan again with me this season! If you are unknown of riding big terrain the best way to get the feeling of powder riding is to get lost in the trees.  photo: Sami Valikangas

Doing tricks in forest is sometimes difficult. this cab 360 was challenging because I had to ride thru tight spot of trees right after landing. stay tuned for new photo edit from Niigata, Japan. dropping end of this week. Photo: Sami Valikangas

¨Snowboarding in the trees is the best type of snowboarding I know! There is something magical when you are riding in this very stunted scenery. It sometimes feels like I need to achieve this feeling of getting lost to actually realise that in the nature Im purely driven by completely focused motivation¨ photo: Sami Valikangas