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

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This year, the Powfinder General, aka offpisteskiing has based the trip at Balstad in the Wild West of Lofoten so we can explore some different terrain. Despite gale force winds of an impending arctic storm, which scuppered an attempted tour up Stornappstinden, we managed 1200 of vertical and a surprisingly good steepish couloir descent just to the East of Leknes. For the past few hours we've been staring at horizontal snow pasting the harbour. This post has a happy team braving the gale. Next posts show this afternoon's ascent and stunning light from Stornappstinden
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Gale force skinning
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Looking SW from Stornappstinden. Winners
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Oslo airport: we decided to avoid this bar. Not only because it was early morning:

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Getting to Bodo was beautiful:

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And so was getting to Leknes:

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And then we had a fun day to take pics while our guide and powfinder general waited for SAS / Wideroe to bring his skis, and ended up borrowing some:










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Cod was drying (of course):

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It was a bit breezy when we started skiing:

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Great pics. Looking forward to seeing how this develops!
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Looking forward to seeing how this develops!

If it's anything like the last trip, it should be a doozy!
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@horizon, Great photos. Looking forward to more. Very Happy
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More, more! Very Happy Very Happy

@BobinCH, how's the leg doing?
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Looks like an awesome trip. Very much looking forward to the next instalment. snowHead
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This photo summarises day 2 well. It'd be too easy if a day's skiing didn't involve an hour bushwacking over rocks and heather, rain, snow, wind, low vis, rain crust , waist deep porridge, 'powder' and a very nice couloir that perhaps only a handful of people have ever skied. Classic Lofoten snowHead
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Probably the longest bootpack ever recorded that wasn't on snow. More like a yomp. Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the couloir on the lookers left between the cliffs in the distance
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Our starting point in Nusfjord: ball achingly pretty but as you can see, snow was thin on the ground. Hence the bootpack...
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The Powfinder General in the couloir
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Can't believe how 'accessorized' I am with those borrowed skis - almost a perfect match to the arcteryx green!
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Couple from the roadside this morning:





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Everyone skinning up:

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Arno going up

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Sharkymark starts down the Bushwhack Couloir

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That looks so much fun. How good does one have to be to be able to do something like this?
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Superb
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Can't believe how 'accessorized' I am with those borrowed skis - almost a perfect match to the arcteryx green!

You just need a green goggle lens to complete the picture wink
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of Kermit.

Wonderful pictures. snowHead
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Day 3: At breakfast, the light was epic.
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For the rest of the day we had many choices: (a) wind (b) 'snow'* or (c) wind and snow*.

The morning was spent conquering Pilan in the east of the islands and the conditions were perfect, as you can see.
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Light from above

(the only light we had all day)

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This afternoon we attempted a tasty looking couloir but the snow was super saturated and at 40 deg with a lake-related exit, we gave it a miss. Here offpisteskiing takes a look into the entrance before the abort
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* rain
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You lot are taking bag of skittles steeze to new levels.
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to break the sequence of landscape and skiing shots, here's a modern art installation. Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, eat your heart out.

Drying stuff:

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'Snow'* turned to snow this morning. However, the wind is now a strong gale, gusting supersonic. Today's activities may well involve the Viking museum!






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That looks so much fun. How good does one have to be to be able to do something like this?

1. Fit enough to skin uphill for anything from one to four or more hours. It's actually more tiring than it looks - the weight of skis and boots makes it more difficult than hiking. Then there's the weight of a heavy pack if ski touring between refuges/huts. And after skinning up you need enough energy left to ski the descent safely.
2. Reasonably competent on skis or board (ie able to get down without endless falls) in any snow conditions - from powder to breakable crust.

We started off our ski touring in Chamonix - with a guide, hire kit and a two day trip with a night in a refuge. Loved it - despite the hut being the (unrenovated/primitive at the time) Argentiere Hut. We have since graduated onto buying our own kit, multi-day (guided) trips in the Alps and (self-guided) day tours in the Scottish Highlands and North Pennines.

It's just a completely different experience and a different sport to downhill (which we still love). The solitude of the mountains and just being out there in the wilderness on skis just makes ski touring special Very Happy . And arriving at a staffed mountain hut (beer, hot food, sometimes hot showers) to spend the night is one of life's great pleasures.
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