Time to book your Lyngen ski touring week or tour for 2014! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
October is almost here and that´s when we get most of our requests and bookings for the Lyngen ski touring season. For 7 years we´ve been fully booked in the main season and for this winter we see the tendency of skiers who want to come already in mid february to experience the northern lights in combination with ski touring.
Booking for the Ascent Descent Ski Lodge in Nord Lenangen includes boat accessed skiing this winter as well and as usual we provide guides for day or multiple daytours in the area.
Tip! This year we also have a ski touring and avalanche course program running in Tromsø from early winter…
Finally we have a place to do some proper work and you will find us in Sjøgata 14, Tromsø city. Cooperating with Tromsø Outdoor we now can provide a full concept of tours, courses and logistics from Tromsø city.
Welcome!
UIAGM guide office in Tromsø city.
Sjøgata 14. our office in Tromsø. Welcome in for a chat and coffee!
Todays climb on Zappfe egga near Tromsø was a good start of this summer´s guiding out of Tromsø, Norway. We will be based in our home town Tromsø for the rest of the summer and guiding in the mountains surrounding the Island. So if you have ambitions of reaching a high summit in the lyngen alps or maybe perform your first steps of rock and alpine climbing on Kvaløya please send and e-mail or call us for more tips and dates.
A great week is ended here in Lyngen and it was a very nice finish of this fantastic ski season. Having three students and one visiting aspirant guide doing his final practice with us made this week a truly good experience for everyone. Starting off with camping and avalanche training and moving into steeper adventures as the days moved on… Couloir skiing, Glacier travel, navigation, rope works and climbing steep snow. Lyngen is fantastic in early summer and normaly we have snow lower down but this spring has been unusually warm and sunny. This week was also warm and sunny but it was all to the better for us. Enjoying midnight sun, epic spring skiing and good atmosphere all week made this week a special one. Thanks to all!
Summer is moving in here and a well deserved family vacation awaits on the doorstep…
From July to September we go trekking, glacier walking, rock climbing and summer mountaineering here so please send a request for these activities in Tromsø and Lyngen!
Best Regards / Jimmy Halvardsson
First evening and already skiing in the midnight sun here. Great snow and cool people! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Climbing one of the nice couloirs on Storgalten today and a perfect intro to ice axe and crampon work. Photo: Jimmy Halvarsson
Mindblowing scenery awaited us at the col today. After many good days this marked a sort of finish for this season skiing… Photo: Mårten Johansson
Beautiful setting in the Lyngen mountains. Stopping for a swim on our trek and navigation day. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
The ski season is still alive here and it´s seems to last for some time still.. Looking back at one of the best winters we´ve ever had here in Lyngen, we now get spoiled by this unforgettable spring. Yes summer is almost here but the snowpack is still as good as it get´s in the mountains. There is still some ski mountaineering to be done before we stop guiding on skis here and for those wondering where to put their last ski motivation a tour to the summit of Jiehkkevarri is always a good season finish. This summer we will trek and climb in Lyngen and Tromsø and just send an request on the contact form and we take care of it!
Here is some pics from last weeks of skiing in The Lyngen alps!
Skiing of the summit of Trolltinden on Arnøya. We have been visiting the Islands outside Lyngen the whole winter and it´s really amazing skiing out there! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
On the west ridge of 1324 in the Jiehkkevarri massif we found some good ground to practice rope work. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Store Kågtinden is one of the coolest mountains in the area wich we reach with a quick boat transfer from Nord Lenangen. Skiing the west face of this island peak is just unforgettable. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
