 Poster: A snowHead
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Slightly different perspective of the same line. Paul this time enjoying exhilarating turns in soft snow.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Slightly different perspective of the same line. Paul this time enjoying exhilarating turns in soft snow. |
Fantastic. good stuff....Say Hi to simon too!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wow!
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@inspark, thanks, will do!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Awesome photos.
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Fantastic. Norway delivering again 👍
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Thanks guys 👍. The terrain gives more than a little helping hand, though!
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@Sharkymark, Great reports and pictures again, thanks.
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Keep the great pics coming.
How does the snow quality compare to the alps? I've always thought the lower elevations and sea air would adversly affect the snow but also heard that Norway doesn't see the same temperature fluctuations which often adversly affects the snow in the Alps.
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Keep the great pics coming
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+++ One of the (many) impressive things about this thread is the way you take such great photos in what must be tricky circumstances.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Quick post tonight as on my phone. We met up once again with Kristin (you may recall the name from Lofoten series 1, day 1!), which was a pleasure as always and returned to Unicorn Valley Y (series 5, day 5 I think). This time, the couloir wasn’t full of graupel, the sun was out and the views were...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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After a rather spicy top section from the summit, we dropped into the main couloir that was full of good spring snow. As per usual, the lower 200m or so below the couloir was ‘well baked’. A rather aesthetic line.
@DB the snow is heavier than the alps, although we’ve skied knee deep cold smoke here in the past. It’s remarkably resilient to rain.
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You know it makes sense.
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Here’s Steve skinning out with the line behind him.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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We’ll start today’s report with a photo from last night. Imagine a sauna with a view like this? Yup! 👊
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Poster: A snowHead
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Objective 1 was a 350m lump called Hoven that stands isolated on the only flat bit of Lofoten. A mellow ski with great views. Here’s @offpisteskiing on the way up.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Sharkymark, Epic 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Kristin at the summit.
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Sea eagle cameo. Three appeared and two of them decided to preform a courtship ‘dance’ in front of us. This consists of one inverting so they both touch talons and then they tumble for a few seconds. Impressive given these things have a 2m+ wingspand and I think I’m right in saying they’re the largest of the eagles (I can’t be arsed to google it!).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Finally some skiing. Here’s @Arno. Great spring snow, which surprised us given how low and how tracked it was (very popular when it gets snow).
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I’ll leave you with three of the most stunning views we’ve had so far to ski against. Kristin in orange and @offpisteskiing in blue.
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@Sharkymark, beyond words beautiful. Thank you for sharing. 
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@Hurtle (and others!), thanks. Pleasure to share
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Sadly it was our final day today but once again, @offpisteskiing pulled out the stops for a classic exploration day to a place that has seen few, if any, skis. For the sake of argument, we’ll call it Unicorn Valley A. The light was pretty flat for most of the day so not many pics. Here’s @Arno skinning out of the remote north facing bowl. It’s been very warm so saturated snow below about 250m and good spring snow above that on shaded aspects.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Looking south as the cloud cleared.
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The A Team in all their glory. For the 6th time, many thanks to @offpsiteskiing for a superb 8 days of exploration and ski mountaineering; every year it ends up being the highlight of the season. EPIC 😬
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You know it makes sense.
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@Sharkymark, I appear to either have:
a - grown dreadlocks
or
b - been attacked by seaweed...
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