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Coming back to this. Mate is trying to organize first week of April in Lofoten with Northern Alpine guides. Anyone been with them?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thought that this was going to be a Norrona chat. 
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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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I went with offpistekiing 7 years ago for 10 days. We stayed at Lofoten ski Lodge where Alpine Guides are based.
10 days - 2 good days, 7 clag,drizzle, wet shitty snow. Incredible scenery when you could see - but ultimately its an Arctic Maritime environment and climate change probably making it even more unpredictable....
should have gone to AK in hindsight!
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@BobinCH, when we go with offpisteskiing we stay in the accommodation run by NAG and he gets to go to guides' meetings etc. Based on previous experience, they're a friendly bunch. Mix of American and Scandi guides with one or two others mixed in. There seems to be a pretty consistent group so I'd expect that you'll have someone who has visited frequently. They do tend to stick to the classic lines which are a bit busier (but never *really* busy.). If you make up a whole group you can obviously ask to get a bit more off the beaten track, try out steeper stuff etc. That said, the classics are classic for a reason so all are well worth doing.
The accommodation is pretty good - you sleep in refurbished fisherman's huts then eat and drink in a big converted fish processing plant (better than it sounds). Good sauna and hot tub, decent food (assuming you like cod!). Last time we were there the TGR team were staying there which added a bit of star quality 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Just to note, the accommodation has changed since Norris would have been (it's a similar setup though) and we've been a bit luckier with weather in the last few years but the risks of wind, rain and zero vis are real. The snowpack does seem to deal with rain surprisingly well though
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Five trips to Lyngen and only had rain one day, went to Narvik and it rained for two days, so don't know how you can check if Lofoten is more susceptible to rain over Lyngen but might be worth Googling?
Riksgransen doesn't get the rain as much further inland, and there's quite a lot of landmass before Lyngen whereas Lofoten has nothing in front of the isles and is a lot further South so maybe milder airflow?
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two visits to lyngen for me , 12 days skiing , one white out , two low viz , and balance from good to spectacular , late April time also lucky to catch a northern lights show , heading back to Norway this year but skiing Senja for a change
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Lofoten is beautiful. My brother in law s boss let us use his house (one of them) in henningsvaer before a storm destroyed it. It is beautiful.
We also used his houses in norefjel (ski in/out) and hemsedal not ski in/out because you can't land the helicopter next to the cabins that side of the village. 
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