 Poster: A snowHead
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@offpisteskiing timed the descent perfectly for spring snow with some bonus turns in colder snow at the top. Here he is testing it for us.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@horizon wanted to have a go 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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To top off another great day, more sauna action and sublime light.
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@Frosty the Snowman, I love you too x
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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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@Sharkymark, feel like I'm in a shitty parallel universe. If I'm ever reincarnated I am deffos gonna do that trip
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| horizon wrote: |
2: the so-called “Notch of Gnar”, where we finished:
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Now that looks pretty damn awesome!
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@BobinCH, it certainly was. However, if you skied through it you’d go off the so called ‘drop of death’!
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I know you guys have done this trip many times, how often do you get to see such an awesome display of the Northern Lights?? aka can I persuade my wife to let us do a similar trip 
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Looks proper average, especially those Northern Lights shots which summed up the dullness as they reflected off the water |
Yeah, I'm not a bit jealous either.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Two challenges today. Temps have warmed up so finding good snow and skiing what we found both required more thinking. The second being that the TGR crew with Ian McIntosh, Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and Christina Lusti wanted to film on our plan A line! They’ve been here all week with a crew of 5 photographers and drone operators - very pleasant company. Fortunately, @offpisteskiing had a very acceptable plan B...
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Skinning into the objective
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You know it makes sense.
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@horizon mostly enjoying the ascent
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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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@arno and @horizon booting up the Couloir
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Poster: A snowHead
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@offpisteskiing tickling the SW face: it wasn’t a goer with 2 ins of soft on top of rain crust/ice
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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However the north face was excellent
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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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| Sharkymark wrote: |
@arno and @horizon booting up the Couloir |
Looks like a nice line!
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@BobinCH, it was! Weather closed in for 10 mins and the last pic of @horizon is in the top of 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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| Sharkymark wrote: |
| @BobinCH, it was! Weather closed in for 10 mins and the last pic of @horizon is in the top of it |
Lucky he gets more colorful each season!
Do you know how does Lofoten compare to the Lyngen Alps?
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Yep, proper average. So much so that I decided to go home on Tuesday!
Nice pics chaps.
Mike
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| BobinCH wrote: |
| Do you know how does Lofoten compare to the Lyngen Alps? |
Well, Lofoten has 2 Os in it, which gives it way more OOOOO than Lyngen...
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@Hewey, we missed you these last few days!
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@BobinCH, on a more serious note, smaller, quirkier, and more beautiful...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Sharkymark, amazing pictures, simply stunning
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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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@offpisteskiing, can I be the first to sing up for 2020 please?
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@Hewey, we missed you very much but please don’t sing...
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You know it makes sense.
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@summerseat, thanks 
I generally maintain that with the quality of the light and scenery, it’s hard to take a bad photo!
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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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A long stint in Oslo airport coming up so yesterday’s events should appear at some point later today...
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Sharkymark, you've never heard me sing!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Hewey, I maybe wrong but I don’t want to find out...?
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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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After the TGR film crew guzumped us on Friday, we decided to visit the previous day’s plan A for our final day. The objective being a very aesthetic 40 deg Couloir situated 850m up a very aesthetic peak.
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The weather looked ominous and it was warm again. However the TGR team had put in a decent skin track and even left the Couloir untracked (Sage skied down the spine to looker’s left in pic 1: it was insane).
Here @horizon and @arno bootpack into the Couloir mouth.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Having topped out, a few of us climbed (in every sense of the word) the final few meters of exposed nevé to the summit.
After done high fives, we skied the Couloir and totally killed it, TGR style. Here’s @horizon doing just that.
The Couloir was boot deep compacted powder with suitable sloughing. The snow on the face below was some of the best of the trip. The least said about the lowermost 200m the better...
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One final image greeted us as we drove back to the Lofoten Ski Lodge: our line reflected in the fjord in the late afternoon light. EPIC.
Once again many thanks to @offpisteskiing for a superb week.
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@Sharkymark, fab. Thank you so much for sharing and allowing us lesser mortals to dream.
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...barely started!
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