October is the month when we often get the first proper snow falls in The Lyngen alps and some years we start the ski touring way before christmas. It´s a good time to prepare for the main season and our ski touring weeks in the Lyngen alps starts in the end of February. We still have available weeks through the season so please get in touch to get your dates in the calendar. Our ski touring weeks is the complete Lyngen experience with local food, private guiding, boat rides and a relaxed stay at the Ascent Descent Ski Lodge. All groups and levels are welcomed to ski with our locally experienced and certified guides and enjoy the magical scenery of the Lyngen alps. Please send a mail from our contact page to get your dates for 2016! Best Regards / Jimmy Halvardsson IFMGA Mountainguide at Ascent Descent “The Lyngen Mountain Guides”
Skiing back to the lodge on our home mountain Storgalten Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Our boat gives access to remote ski touring from the sea. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Experience the Lyngen alps with Ascent Descent “The Lyngen Mountain Guides”! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Finishing of the Lyngen skitouring season with a great ski weekend at the AscentDescent Ski Lodge in The Lyngen alps. Last weekend of May has been our season finisher for years now even if guiding continues in the range from other locations. Guiding non stop in the Lyngen alps from late February to early June makes for a great summer vacation and preparing for a new season.
Skiing the lower slopes of Storgalten, the last weekend of May. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Midnight sun ski touring in the Lyngen alps. Russelvfjellet at the Northern tip is one of the midnight sun calssics of the lyngen alps. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Last weekend of May and midnight sun view over Fugløya. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
It´s been fantastic guiding in the Lyngen alps lately. Good snow, stable conditions and great weather. AscentDescent Ski Lodge is filled up with happy skiers and guides and we enjoy the North Norwegian ski culture of fishing, skiing by boat, great local food and some of the best ski touring on the planet. Please make ready for 2016 all ready since 2015 is full and bookings for 2016 is picking up!!
Best regards / Jimmy Halvardsson
Viewing the ski by boat options from the Lyngen peninsula. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Skiing by boat with AscentDescent in the Lyngen alps is something that gives that extra flavour of the ski week! Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
Skiing the west face of Russelvfjellet. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
March is always a month when we have a lot of mixed conditions. It´s been windy and warm lately with occasional rain showers. More snow is around the corner as we´re filling up The Ascent Descent Ski Lodge in Lyngen with guides and groups. The best time of the year for skiing in the Lyngen alps has started and we´re not stopping until June and summer arrives.
This is from one of our ascents last week and although we had heavy winds and some warm weather we had a lot of good skiing. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
As usual we get a lot of mixed weather in the Lyngen alps and Tromsø this time of the year. Last weeks has been exceptional with lot´s of heavy storms and avalanche activity. Sticking to low angled skiing up high or tree skiing down low has been the key and the snow has been amazing. We´ve had a few days of sun in between lately and being out guiding in the sun after weeks of heavy snowfall is almost unrealistic. The season at AscentDescent Ski Lodge in the Lyngen alps is about to start, opening the doors on the 1st of March.
Ski touring on the Kvaløya island just outside Tromsø city. Photo: Jimmy Halvardsson
