The season starts for real this week with an avalanche and skitouring lecture in Tromsø on wednesday and first ski touring clients on thursday. March often gives good snow conditions in The Lyngen Alps and fantastic Northern lights in the evenings.
There will be some highly qualified guides joining the AscentDescent guide team this season and we want to welcome both skiers and guides to Lyngen and Northern Norway.
… And yes, we have some dates left for the ones looking for a last minute trip so just call or mail for more info…
See you soon! / Jimmy, Petra and Max
Kvaløya outside tromsø is a great ski touring island with many peaks up to 1000 metres. Here we ski a nice slope close to our home in Tromso. Skier: Petra Halvardsson
Summertime here in Tromsø at the moment and so far we’ve had a pretty cold summer. The climbing is still good though and just done with two days of guiding on Kvaløya with an Australian guy. First day we whent trekking to the climbing hut below Baugen wich are the premier location for nice granit trad routes up here. Our goal was to climb the classic Zapffe arete but the weather didn’t improve so we got some nice Trekking done instead:) Day two was clear and cold and we went up to Lille Baugen wich is slightly lower but still has some really nice granite climbs in different grades. Starting at 700 to be sure that Ben reached his flight to Svalbard later that day… Thanks Ben for two nice days in Tromsø and Kvaløya!
For people interested in wxploring the area there is still some space in the calendar for some guiding until I leave for the alps in the beginning of august. So if you’re interested in trekking our climbing around Tromsø or Lyngen it’s just to send an e-mail!
A nice moment to collect our thoughts after a good climb. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Ben enjoying some nice granite here in the North. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
After three great days of skiing with two finish clients a new storm seems to move in here in Lyngen. The storm will fill in all tracks from the easter holidays and untouched slopes are waiting for us… Until now the Lyngen season has been great with a lot of mixed weather as usual but still very good skiing. The skitouring season in lyngen continues until the end of may and there is still free dates from mid May for those interested!
Ski by boat with AscentDescent “The Lyngen Mountain Guides”
On our way to Russelvfjellet one of my personal favourites! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Sometimes we use boats to reach good skiing. Skitouring from a beach in lyngen is something many people dream of. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Just back after leaving Australian clients at the ferry after 5 days of skiiing together here in Lyngen. They where the third group of skiers visiting this year and it was fun to have people visiting even 34 hours flight time away! We’ve had a great mix of weather so far and that means rain, snow, sun, wind, warm and cold…
At the moment Andreas Fransson, Bjarne Sahlen and Morgan Sahlen (and more) is visiting in our camp in Nord-Lenangen (Northern Lyngen) and On saturday there is new people coming for skiing and we will get our touch of civilization picking them up!
Katie and Andy from Australia on their first ski week ever! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
John Minogue from Chamonix in next years Cosmiques outfit from Tierra. Together with Bjarne Sahlen at Endlessflow we skied and filmed for a few days.
Erik from sweden skis some fantastic powder on Storgalten 31st March 2012. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
At the moment we ski in the Lyngen alps with good friend and Chamonix boarder John Minogue, accompanied by Bjarne Sahlen, a very talented film maker from Sweden. So far we’ve been lucky with the conditions here in Lyngen and we have also managed to ski some great lines. Based in our camp in Nord lenangen we enjoy the new woodfired sauna, fresh shrimps and good skiing. Watch Bjarnes work at www.endlessflow.net or www.endlessflow.posterous.com
Our minds also goes to all those connected to the tragic accident in Kåfjord three days ago.
On our way to ski the \”Veidalsrenna\”. John and Bjarne bootpacking the last ridge. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
