Mid way through the SIA tradeshow in Denver this January photographer Russell Dalby and myself decided to book a last minute trip to Stockholm for a rail mission with the Brothers Factory crew. There was just enough time to jet over there, session for a week and get back to Vancouver in time to catch the Olympics.

Will Demers, Max Baillargeon, Jeremy Cloutier and Dalby made contact with Stockholm loc Kareem El Rafie who would guide us to the goods and headed out on February 2. P-O Houde and I joined them on the 6^th and Vermont’s Yale Cousino hooked up with us the next day.

Sweden is basically a rail riders dream. There are ridiculous spots everywhere that you can hit any time of day with zero bust. One of reasons appears to be that the same liability laws that we have here don’t exist over there (more research being done to confirm this theory). The another is something called Allemansrätten, or Every Mans Right, which guarantees the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise. So when you start to session it seems that people figure it’s just your right to do what you want in that area—as far as I could tell anyway. And that’s pretty much perfect for shredding.

Everyone we ran into was claiming that this was the best winter (or worst depending on your point of view) that they've seen in 20 years, so along with tonnes of spots there was tonnes of snow.

The downside is that like most of Europe’s developed nations it’s pretty damn expensive.

Word is that Endeavor's Kevin Griffin and Jody Wachniak are over there as you read this getting their fill of what Sweden's got to offer.

Keep an eye out for a feature story dropping in SBC next fall and a travel part in Brothers Factory’s 2010 release The Next Level.

P-O rolled off the plane in Stockholm on Saturday night and had a shot on the gap to down bar (below) 10 tries later.

First night gap to down (shrinker angle). Kareem breaks it down...

Kareem told us about the Stockholm Perfect rail. This spot is far from N.B.D. Jeremy Cloutier gives the run down...

P-O tried to up the ante with a Cab 270 Pretzel out and came damn close but tweaked his knee on a landing...

Day two: P-O figured the trip might be over for him.

Yale getting braced.

P-O with prison stripes. We stayed in Langholmen hostel which was converted from an old prison in 2007.

If you were ever stranded in the wilderness you could just grab a couple of Will Demers' moustache hairs and braid them together to make a fishing line.

Max "CB4" Baillaregeon.

Owning the streets.

Gotta get old school when you go to Europe. Eddie Wall got a shot on this ledge a few years back.

Just outside the church. Any setup, any time, any where.

Red Bull hooked us up with a generator in the form of this car which they drove to any spot any time. Thanks to Jens and Martin.

Red Bull winch=speed.

Red Bull even brought some girls along to keep us company.

Massive triple kink, middle of the day, busy street, no problem. Cloutier killed it.

Sight seeing.

We're on a boat. Rygerfjord hostel. A little cold at night but nice and cheap.

We wrapped up our final nights with a stay at the Hilton. Ballin'.

Swedish girls are world renowned. It's true, there was P-hus everywhere.