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April 2009 |
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New month of April started - to see all of March weeks see here» April 28: Two new groups arrived this week Kurt Wolf from Austria is back for his second visit with Jenny, Mark, Mans and Rob. And the second group is the Warren Miller film crew from the USA with pro the skiers Chris Davenport, Lorraine Huber and Karine Falck Pedersen. We've had a run of poor weather lately but this week the conditions are improving and today the weather has been fantastic which allowed us to film for 14 hours on the mountain. We headed to Ulø¸ya with the Spirit of Lyngen to the zone 2 drop off to film some classic Lyngen skiing above the fjords and the results where perfect. Some photos from today.
April 24: After a cloudy start the sunshine appeared and both groups made use of the sunshine on the mountain. Mario's group headed up to Giilavarri and reported good skiing for the first sections off the summit. Paul headed up behind the lodge for too good skiing upper mountain but wet snow through the forest. Photos from Mario.
April 22: The sun greeted the day and there was panic among the Italians to get out on the hill early doors. Mario Dibona's group from Dolomiti Italy jumped onto the Spirit of Lyngen for the 15 minute boat journey past the nature reservation towards Ulø¸ya island. The sun held until about 2pm then the snow began to fall at the top of the mountain. Paul headed to Sorbmegaisa and reported wind on the summit, compressed snow from 1000m to 600m then wet snow through the forest. Happy days and smiles all round... it's amazing what a bit of sunshine can do..
April 21: It's been a full white out day with snow above 300m. Paul headed to Ulø¸ya and Mario to Svartfjellet. Good snow, thick clouds and big waves. The hot tub seems to be the hot spot for today!
April 19: Full storm providing proper weather... amazing amount of snow, it was tree line skiing only for both new groups this week. I took a photo of a light on the lodge today as that was the only interesting thing I could see in the storm, I spent most the afternoon securing the Spirit of Lyngen boat as the northerly storm was giving the harbour a fair old bashing. Just to remind you if you ever forget that nature has full control here.
April 16: Paul and I joined forces and headed for a Store Galten traverse from east to west on the northern Lyngen Peninsula starting from Ytre Gammvik to Nordlenangen. This spectacular summit offers a direct 1300m ski perfectly in the fall line. We started the day in the Spirit of Lyngen for a beach drop off and began climbing in sunshine. By mid afternoon the forecasted storm was approaching and the summit was super windy. It became a proper mountain day out as we had to climb over the steep cornice ridge to reach the summit in full windy conditions! The ski down was superb, we hit the left couloir and steamed down the excellent mid slopes for a short forest battle before the we reached the bridge pick up from the boat. The journey back was hardcore through 2 meter waves... my favourite..
April 15: We seem to be the blizzard magnets as where ever we go it's snowing! Today was no exception as it dumped down on us the entire day... great snow but couldn't see much. It's weather from the north and this brings in the moist air off the ocean and in turn brings local snow showers that can be real heavy in local areas. Today we went inland to Rotsunddalen to try and get some sunshine but the snow followed us for the whole day. We travelled 16km by ski and had some great powder turns. Paul headed for the Blåtinden traverse from Ulø¸ybukta and had a little more sun than we did.
April 14: We headed north to Kagen today as the northern winds bring most snow to the Kågen region. And what a surprise with boot deep powder on a hard base but the snow has bonded well together. We made a traverse of the island taking in 3 climbs and reaching the col on Storesandnestinden covering 1600m today. The visibility was poor but the snow fall heavy and turns excellent. Paul headed to Svartfjellet and also reported excellent skiing 10cm of fresh on a hard smooth base. Photos today from Kågen.
April 13: It's colder and snowing again with good skiing above 700m. It's been warm over the last few days but now winter is returning ...so nobody panic!!! My bunch of hardened guys and gals headed directly behind the lodge to ski Store Haugen and the snow firmed up as we climbed as the temperatures plummeted to minus below. It was like skiing piste as the wet base from yesterday has set hard and now the snow is steadily falling. It's still slushy in the trees but overnight it will also freeze. Paul headed to Ulø¸ya and visited some dried fish before skiing Kjelvågtinden down to the zone 2 beach pick up. It was an all round great day full of laughs and wipeouts. Photos today from Store Haugen.
April 12: Our new groups have arrived and we welcome some old friends back, Jim, Rohan, Charlie from the UK and Mark from Canada who will ski with me this week along with Katrina from Sweden. Paul has a group from the UK too. The weather has been warm and today it snowed above 1000m and some rain below. This happens in April occasionally but the forecast is positive with minus degrees at sea level on Tuesday with heavy snow so we will be back to powder skiing by Tuesday pm:) Today Paul skied Sorbmegaisa and I headed over to Ulø¸ybukta for a traverse of Ulø¸ya and Blåtinden. The snow was wet but we had fun. Photos from my group today.
April 8: A sunny day but the last of the cold days as it's forecast to warm up a little, so Paul headed to Olderdalen to ski Giilavarri and abrice headed over to the Strupbreen to climb the Tafeltinden.
April 7: Blue sky day again and Paul headed for a Ulø¸ya traverse from Ulø¸ybukta to Blåtinden via the Spirit of Lyngen. Daniel headed to Kågen for a traverse of Storesandnestinden and Fabrice summited the Sorbmegaisa. Petter went fishing but came back with an empty bucket... no fish today from the Cod Father.. Photos today from Paul's Eagle ski club group and Fabrice who is shown first today.
Paul's photos from April 7 today
April 6: Full action at the Lyngen Lodge today with 3 groups out and some interesting descents.
Paul's photos April 6.
April 5: It couldn't be better as it's snowing in the night and sunny in the day! Well, the weather is from the north so it's blowing snow squalls in and out during the day and the snow is fantastic.
April 3: The last day of the week for Shep and Paul's group. Shep headed to Store Galten for a traverse of the northern end of the Lyngen Peninsula and Paul headed up to Kågen with the Spanish Armarda for a traverse of Storesandnestinden which provides one of the finest views over the eastern side of the range. It was again a wonderful week packed with adventure and quality snow. Paul stays on for another week at the lodge. Photos today from Paul's group.
April 2: The northerly storm has left and now the sun has broken through to reveal perfect powder over every mountain. During the night the temperature dropped and dried the snow out somewhat removing some of the tension in the snow that was built up yesterday. All groups stayed local and remained in moderate angled terrain as the risk is still level 3 avalanche grade. Daniel from Villars went to Rotsunddalen, Paul headed to Giilavarri and Niogel to Sorbmegaisa. All reported super snow. I stayed in the office but went up to Store Haugen for an afternoon blow out... and stole back the record time of lodge to Store Haugen summit from Ali... now he's already breaking out the lycra to win it back and beat 1hr 19 mins..;) Photos today from Shep on Sorbmegaisa.
April 1: Happy new month! And April came with a snow storm from the north, so all groups stayed fairly local today with Shep heading down the valley to Giilavarri, Paul to Rotsunddalen and Daniel a guide who arrived from Switzerland headed to Nordmannviktinden but got beaten off by the wind. Snow forecast for tomorrow also and sun for Friday. Photos from Giilavarri today.
March 31: Postcard day with no wind and not a cloud in the sky. Paul headed over to the Strupbreen glacier to take the Spanish Armarda to the summit of Tafeltinden. Enrique was over enthusiastic to get to the beach and slipped on some seaweed (as you do) and ended up a little wet, well ok very wet and had to empty his ski boots of salty water! Shep took his merry band up to Storetinden in the Rotsunddalen and traversed over to Kippeldalen and Nordmannvik for a bus pick up. Shep had good powder from the summit and enjoyed the stunning inland scenery which is quite different from the fjord side. Photos from Shep today.
March 30: The weather is holding up so the island of Ulø¸ya was on the plan for both groups from different directions. Paul headed up to Kjelvågtinden from Havnnes and Nigel headed round to Ulø¸ybukt for a ascent on Blåtinden. Both took beach pick ups and the reported super snow.
March 29: Two new groups this week. I have the week off from skiing and Paul is guiding the lodge group and we welcome back our visiting guide Nigel Sherpherd who has brought his own group of regular tourers Paul and Fiona, John, John, Adrain who are back for a second time to the lodge. The weather this week looked a little unsettled with a mixture of some snow and sun so Nigel Shepherd decided to take advantage of the good weather and head to the Strupbreen Glacier up to Tafeltinden. A big day for the first day but his group are hard core so they enjoyed the walk through the spectacular scenery. Paul began gently and toured up to Store Haugen with a mixture of a crazy Spanish group Pepe and Enrique x 2 and two Germans Florian and Anja from Munchen.
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