VIEWS SOUTH DOWN LYNGEN FJORD
Every minute piece of conceivable ski equipment is available to rent or borrow & well worth saving the cost & effort of transporting it out here yourself. Top notch Kästle skis, skins, ice axes, harness' & crampons, not to mention gloves, jackets, hats & so on and so forth.
Every breakfast sitting there is a fight to sit along the Eastern side of the table & soak up the panoramic views across the 4 mile wide fjord to the untracked couloires & slopes beyond.
These guys really know how to treat you like royalty.
DAY 5: ASCENDING TO 1,200m
DAY 5: ASCENDING TO 1,200m
By boat, minibus or ski, we have accessed the slopes every day. Sadly the snow conditions are not as anticipated with ice, breakable crust & very little powder but the guides have persevered taking us hiking up slopes & focusing on techniques for using skins, crampons, ice axes & so forth.
With the inimitable humor of our Austrian guides, we have enjoyed every moment & laughed more than ever before.
The sauna with views over the fjord & jacuzzi on the veranda just finish the day off to perfection, time for recovery before once again perching before the open log fire & tucking into another gastronomic event courtesy of Martin the resident chef.
On return to the Lodge each day we were treated to the most decadent of cakes for tea & then a dinner of Norwegian delicacies.
My favourite dishes included pickled herring, reindeer casserole, crab ravioli with seductive artichoke sauce, red fish with sweet, vibrant green pea puree, scallops with THE most velvety textured cauliflower puree, that just dissolved across the tongue.
Lyngen Lodge on You tube
The melange of guests is truly international with American, Asian, Australian, Irish, Swiss, Swedish, Finnish & of course English which just adds to the novelty of the stay hearing about the diverse lives and ski experiences.
Despite the snow conditions, I haven't heard a bad word said of the trip. How could you not enjoy a break in this haven, protected from the outside world and our normally chaotic lives.
We have been spoiled with 2 nights of fabulous Aurora Borealis displays, piercing the unpolluted blackness overhead, hard to believe that its not a fabricated light show.
SPECTACULAR SHOW OF ARORA BOREALIS
One thing's for sure, it will be hard to adjust to the flat Yorkshire landscapes, green flooded fields and beans on toast tomorrow!
On return to the Lodge each day we were treated to the most decadent of cakes for tea & then a dinner of Norwegian delicacies.
My favourite dishes included pickled herring, reindeer casserole, crab ravioli with seductive artichoke sauce, red fish with sweet, vibrant green pea puree, scallops with THE most velvety textured cauliflower puree, that just dissolved across the tongue.
Lyngen Lodge on You tube
The melange of guests is truly international with American, Asian, Australian, Irish, Swiss, Swedish, Finnish & of course English which just adds to the novelty of the stay hearing about the diverse lives and ski experiences.
Despite the snow conditions, I haven't heard a bad word said of the trip. How could you not enjoy a break in this haven, protected from the outside world and our normally chaotic lives.
We have been spoiled with 2 nights of fabulous Aurora Borealis displays, piercing the unpolluted blackness overhead, hard to believe that its not a fabricated light show.
SPECTACULAR SHOW OF ARORA BOREALIS
One thing's for sure, it will be hard to adjust to the flat Yorkshire landscapes, green flooded fields and beans on toast tomorrow!
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