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The Lofoten Islands 2015: The (Sea) Eagle Has Landed

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Indeed, I almost laughed out loud.
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Those fish heads are on their was to Nigeria and Gambia...they really are.
The bodies go to established markets,what used to be waste, i.e. the heads, go to west Africa.
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Time for
http://youtube.com/v/cTpUVAcvWfU
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Great Fotos
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@rungsp, indeed, that's exactly what offpisteskiing said - fish heads go to Nigeria.

(and skittles go back to their offices...)
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Another nice trip, best of both worlds ?

http://www.skitour.fr/sorties/des-lofoten-aux-alpes-de-lyngen,65485.html

And I love the image of the "group", average age ???
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Finally back home and sorting through piccies from 20 days on Lofoten... Here are a few more action shots from this week:

Slope with a (sea) view:



Sharkymark:



horizon:



Richard:



Arno:



horizon:

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offpisteskiing, thanks for the pics, and of course for a great trip! (don't mention how the weather was the following week...)

I think this thread is missing some quotes from Yngvar, our excellent host at Kraemmervika Rorbuer:


One of the skittles: I'm thinking of bringing my wife here next year.

Yngvar: Yes, well, wives are... in general, I'm skeptical about wives.

____________

Yngvar: I don't like busy season. No time to talk to guests. I like off-season.

One of the skittles: When is off-season in Lofoten?

Yngvar: Ten months a year.

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Yngvar launches himself into a complex story about a priest and a bishop and goes on for a while.

irbis: Wait a moment, who died, the priest or the bishop?

Yngvar: The priest died.

irbis: Aha.

Yngvar: They both died.
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@horizon, priceless... Money can't buy quality chat like that Happy

More piccies to follow...

(PS the weather the following 10 days was mixed... As usual...)
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I'm yet to sort through my pics: a job for this weekend if it's raining wink

Epic, epic trip*. Many thanks to offpisteskiing.

* Of course, it was actually terrible and no one should bother going Cool
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Sharkymark wrote:
I'm yet to sort through my pics: a job for this weekend if it's raining wink


Surely a rainy weekend = spend one day getting the new mtb incredibly muddy then spend the next day cleaning it and dismantling and reassembling various components, no?
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And a few more pictures from our last day on Kangerutind:





















Loads more pictures and words on the blog:

http://offpisteskiing.blogspot.com
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offpisteskiing wrote:
Sharkymark wrote:
I'm yet to sort through my pics: a job for this weekend if it's raining wink


Surely a rainy weekend = spend one day getting the new mtb incredibly muddy then spend the next day cleaning it and dismantling and reassembling various components, no?


You've got me worked out!

Great pics and blog entry, offpisteskiing snowHead
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great stuff.

@offpisteskiing, albeit I'm intrigued .. Picture 5 on 10:46 post [ And a few more pictures from our last day on Kangerutind: ] - where are the tracks?!
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@Arctic Roll, either Arno has a pair of hover-skis on secret test, or there is a slight roll in terrain... (I prefer the former)
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@Arctic Roll, must admit I thought the same!
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@offpisteskiing, @Markymark29, Laughing let's go with the hover skis.
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A few more shots from week 2...

Transfer days = great weather this year (Sod's law in full effect...); scenery to die for:



A shot for all the Bo Selecta fans out there... "It'll be proper Bø I tell thee...":



Day 1 very similar to much of week 1... Day 2 we quite literally got blown off Geitgaljern from about 550m - good snow on the way down though:



Finally the forecast blue skies showed up (about 6 hours late!), in time for a quick late afternoon hit above the lodge:

Norris:


Jack:


Summit team!:


Summit view down to the lodge:


Opening up after the steep summit slope:


...more to follow...
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And a few more... Spotted from the road - no info online, classic exploratory ski touring!











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I've wanted to go skiing among the Norwegian Fjords since someone first posted a TR from Lyngen Lodge on here years ago, these pics just make me want to go more although I'd have to improve my fitness and skiing (although my kick turns may be up to standard by the look of it NehNeh )

ps. It does look very Scottish in a lot of those pics, weather included!
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My mid-summer trip to the Lofotens, inspired by this thread, starts next week. I'm spending a few days en route, starting in Oslo where inter alia I'm visiting the Fram Museum. So reading biographies of Nansen and Amundsen - weeks of reading downloaded to my Kindle. The former was essentially one of the founders of "ski touring" as recreation. Before embarking on his polar exploration he'd done several rather foolhardy trips across the interior of Norway as a young man, with just a few bit of cheese and enormous hickory skis with leather bindings. His descriptions of the journeys - the joys of the downhill swoop after miles and miles of carrying skis up impossible gradients are awe- inspiring. If stuck out at night he put on an extra woolly jumper and had a few hours kip in the snow. He was also a pioneering scientist - never knew that before embarking on Roland Huntford's biography.

No wonder the Norwegians did better than the Brits in getting to the South Pole (and back again, alive).
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Sharkymark wrote:
@offpisteskiing, It looks a bit worrying, doesn't it! I can't figure out why the phone processed it like that. !


THe reason for the propeller distortion is because the camera is CMOS. It will readout one line at a time (rolling shutter), so there is a timelag in the lines and the propellers look bent.

Some readout from top to bottom and some frommiddle to top/bottom so you get weird effects like breaks.

Oh I am sad!!!!! But I do work for an imaging company so I have an excuse to be a geek.
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@GlasgowCyclops, thanks for that; the answer had actually been bothering me!

@pam w, how was (is) it?
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Not bad
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not bad at all
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Fishy
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Henningsvaer. Our boat is bottom right - stern to the photographer. Not my usual class of vessel!
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midnight sun
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@pam w, Very Happy
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Very nice; what was the temperature like?
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Temperature varied - the second picture above it was pretty warm. Probably around 18 or 19 degrees and windless. Several members of the crew swam, from one of those lovely sandy beaches, but not I. It was so beautiful just sitting on the boat looking at it all. It was never really cold, but out on the water in any amount of wind I was very happy to wear merino base layers, a down mid layer, heavy duty oilies, sealskin gloves and a hat.
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We had scarcely any rain, which was nice. some good sunny days but they were often pretty windless.
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