Skiing the Planet

"Mongolia is kind of close, right?" Story about an attempt to ski everywhere in the world where there's snow. And in some places where there isn't. On and off-piste skiing on all continents, skiing into craters of live volcanoes, climbing, photography, and travel.

The blog about skiing around the world. The most recent blog articles can be found in Blogspot. This page lists all the skiing-related articles from this blog series.

	Wappurun Wappu. There's still plenty of snow for a ski run in Vihti. Full story Alternate link May 2020, Vihti ski, Vihti, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Last snow in Grani Now THIS is really the last snow. Two meter long snow patch left... it will be gone by tomorrow. Skied the slope, nevertheless :-) Full story Alternate link May 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Snow, Grass)
	Another day, another conference call, another ski run Another day, another conference call, another ski run Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Five-day winter The official statistics are in: in southern Finland, the thermal winter lasted only five days. But, I should note that first of May and the Midsummer are still ahead of us. Full story Alternate link April 2020, House Arkko, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	I deny my involvement I did *not* have anything to do with this. Really. Full story Alternate link April 2020, House Arkko, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Finally, the final run (?) Now THAT may have been the last run of the season. Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	TDM isolation Time-division multiplexing; reserving a time slot for different entities. A telecommunications concept that can also be useful for skiing in the virus-infested world. With too many people going about during the day, I wanted to isolate myself by going to the ski hill at 1am. It was great, but I also had some equipment breakage. Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Snowing in Vihti It still wasn't the last run of the season! Vihti rules! Full story Alternate link April 2020, Vihti ski, Vihti, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Social ski-distancing I wanted to go skiing with my friend Jarmo. But, the dangers of infecting others... Fortunately, we found a solution: skiing at the same time on two separate slopes. Full story Alternate link April 2020, Peuramaa, Kirkkonummi, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Meltdown lockdown It is the end of days. A meltdown, of the snow on the local ski hill. Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	One more time? One more skiing run? Why not. Also, I have not been to Swinghill in Nuuksio yet this winter. So Tero and I decided to go see if we could ski it. While staying far enough apart to not infect each other :-) Full story Alternate link April 2020, Swinghill, Espoo, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	It's a snow day! We can stay home! ... Oh... wait It's a snow day! We can stay home! ... Oh... wait Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Ducktape is PERFECT for spring skiing Downgrade your skis, and your ski season will become longer! Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	More skiing. Daily? Today I woke up and saw that it was sunny... warm, almost 10 degrees even at 9am. A busy day ahead, but I thought I'd go for a brief ski run while taking the first conference call. Full story Alternate link April 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Grani still going strong, even in bad winter While coming back from the grocery store, I swing by the local ski hill in Kauniainen. To my amazement, they were up and running, with a bit more than half of the slope covered by snow. Full story Alternate link March 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)
	Not the last run, after all I don't often quarantine myself, but when I do, I do it next to a ski slope. Full story Alternate link March 2020, Kauniainen ski hill, Kauniainen, Finland Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts)

This is the 9th set of articles. The previous sets were set 1, set 2, set 3, set 4, set 5, set 6, set 7, and set 8. The next sets are set 10, set 11, set 12, set 13, set 14, set 15, set 16, set 17, set 18, set 19, set 20, set 21, set 22, set 23, and set 24.

See also the Planetskier blog articles about caving, urban exploration, climbing, cycling, flying, swimming, and saunas. There is also a full list of all articles regardless of topic, a list of services "approved by the Planetskier, and a world map of all skiing related destinations from the blog series: