Interview

Your great victories at Verbier X-Trem and Big Mountain Pro last winter ?

Ohh it was an amazing feeling to win again in Verbier but the best is the feeling of nailing a run under those circumstances. It’s a very difficult mountain and pressure is for sure on highest level.

 

The Big Mountain Pro for me is an ultimate freeride event, you fly out in the mountains and find your line with the help of binoculars. Then you ski this untouched mountain at full speed, it’s a little bit like filming. Of course, winning this event two years in a row is one of my greatest achievements in my career.

I am looking forward for next year’s event already. J

 

 

Your best sessions last winter filming, shooting or traveling?

Me, Mike Douglas and Chris Rubens went with MSP and Freeski TV to the Montafon valley in Austria on a great trip. We had sun every day and the ski vibe was on top. After competing for some weeks, I enjoyed skiing powder and hanging out with a good crew of friends eating the Austrian grillteller. The bonus was to finish the trip with two days of Heli skiing in St Moritz, nice.

 

 

Where do you ski this summer? Any special project?

Yes, with the Salomon team we went to Chile for ski testing and a Freeski TV adventure show. The Freeski ranges are in constant development, so we went to Chile to test the new models. We found deep powder in mountains that had never been skied before. We stayed in a family farm on the foot of the Andes, went up by 4x4 trucks to the snow, and from there we took snowmobiles to the peaks and made some first descents. It was just a two week blast, really cool and on top of that, I think our new ski is awesome.

 

 

What about your projects for next winter: contests, filming, photo-shooting,

traveling…?

I will do the Freeride World Tour one more year, try to have some good results and have a good time doing it. Then I hope to go visit the Canadian powder or why not the Japanese, we will see.

I really hope I get one more chance to film with MSP to get a nice segment.

 

 

What about the new Freeski range? What do you like the most in these new skis?

Salomon is really getting back on the right track with their new skis. In the 90’s, Salomon came out with the X-scream ski and it was a revolution in freeride skiing. Salomon was the brand that introduced freeriding products that gave the user a super fun experience on the mountain.

I just love the new range of skis, they really give me the opportunity to go out there and have so much fun. With the new skis I can really push and develop my skiing skills and it fulfills my dreams of skiing.

Who is Kaj beside sking: where and how do you live? What are your other passions and hobbies?

I live little bit here and there, in the winter I live in Chamonix and in summer/fall I live with my girlfriend in Oslo. But of course I’m almost always on the road, in the winter on a ski trip as well in the summer season but in the summer/fall I also travel a lot to work with my beanie brand, Kask. I go to Stockholm and Rättvik in Sweden to design and distribute and everything that you do in a company.

Then of course, my life is very sporty so I’ll do some kind of sport every day. Like biking cross-country and I just tried out downhill so I’m pretty hooked on that. Then I practice motocross, tennis, skateboard, surfing, running, and workout at the gym, so it’s little bit of everything.

 

Any other info?

I can’t wait for next season. Skiing is so much fun and I hope you know it to, maybe we will meet out there. We will release Goggles & Helmets this year on Kask, so check’em out. I’m really stoked on them.