Archive April 2012
Russelvfjellet – Finishing of a great trip by skiing down to the ocean in the sunset!
On Thursday evening, after coming home from Russetind and eating a big lunch, we jumped in to the car again to drive north to Russelvfjellet, where the road ends. After three great weeks of ski touring, ski mountaineering, adventuring or whatever you like to call it; we had a great time, got to ski some […]
Russetind – Rematch on the beautiful east face
On Thursday we went to finish of our Norway adventure where it started – on Russetind. We hooked up with two young Tromsö locals, Lars Andreas Nilssen and Vegard Rye and did the walk up in a neat 2,5 hours. It was a perfect day, fairly cold, no wind and bluebird and the ski conditions […]
Morgan’s photos from Stortinden…
Below are Morgan Sahlén’s photos from our adventure on Stortinden a few days ago! Check out the account of this adventure here! The approach – long, like many times before… The snow was perfect for skiing, but one doesn’t want heavy snow fall on this, huh? Luckily enough we found a big boulder to rap […]
Jiehkkevarri 1833 m – Traversing the island via the highest mountain in Lyngen and skiing a wonderful couloir – a venture that could become tomorrow’s classic
Yesterday the Sahlén brothers and myself went for another try of Jiehkkevarri, the highest mountain in Lyngen. Exhausted from the last weeks big days and not extremely motivated for another early start and climb of Holmbuktstind we took of early morning. Weather being perfect with not a cloud on the sky we easily cruised to […]
Failure on Jiehkkevarri – Or, how we climbed and skied the normal route on Holmbuktstind in a snowstorm
On Monday we went to try Jiehkkevarri, the highest mountain in Lyngen, together with Patrik Jonsson (CEO on Magic Mountain Lodge) and Fredrik Aspö. Our intention was to traverse the whole island via the highest mountain on in Lyngen and then try to spice it up on the way down. We wanted to check out […]
