the ski tour

the ski tour

mum thats for you. happy birthday. 

tromseo probably one of the most beatyfull located city in the world. here is where our ski tour started. markus bushmann he choose a tour with history. it is about a hero in the second world war who did an amacing tour thru the lyngen alps. his name was jan baalsrud and it's worth it to check out his storry. my friends and i we wanna do just one stage of it. just think about it he did it alone and more than 60 years early. quiet amazing.

a little information about jan and the tour

we did the bit from lyngseiden to fluruflaten, on the map black marked from lyngseiden to the south. we didn' have the time to cross the fjord.

i was already 1 hour bevorhand on the airport, just co uld not wait any more to get started. the excitemnt was just so big. at 9.30 pm markus arrived first and the smile in his face told me he was just as excited as me. there was straight away a challange for us. one of his connection on his backpack was broken during the flight. we did have two hours to fi it untill bleppi arrived. it was quiet funny to find a needel and thread on the airport. at 11.30 bleppi arrived and as the other two of us he was just stunned by the nature up here and could not wait to start. lets get everything in my car and get started. lula was quiet over loaded and after a two ours drive we have been happy that the car did such a good job and we could get hour skis on.

i think it was round about 4 am when we was ready to go up hill to our first stop a smal hut.

on the first few hundret meters of altitude we did have the first sensational few.

after 3-4 hours sleep we did hit the first mountain. by the way in this time of the year it doesn't get dark anymore. no time limits to be on the slope.

just enjoy the awesome pictures.

lets get higher

and higher

and higher

and higher

just to get down again. when fun hits the upper limit

back on the first ski hut. pack up and lets get the first big tour started

over 20 kilos on our back

up the mountain again

3 crazy men

in the most awesome location

and no one eles

can't get better

3 friends have the most fun ever

just bevor the first descent on this day

over a frozen lake

here i come

and there i wanna go

i was doen after this day. at the end of my strengh after 14 km and over 850 m altitude meters.

a stone can be so confi

get our camp ready

;-)

checking the descent for tomorrow

awesome spot. well done guys

in the backround the glacier

melting the snow to cook dinner

i was just fu...... not even could enjoy the dinner that night. off to bed

another day another story. packing our gear for the descent.

lets hit the slope.

thats where we wann go

but this time it didn't go so well. no pictures of it because there was no time. as we skied a couple of hundrets of meters we came to on dead end. just bevor us a snowfield have been gone down the hill, probably a couple of days early. and just above us there was another one hanging. ther was a quick discussion and the desicion was made. back up. wtf for me it was horor because i was still buggered from the day bevore. so two hours later we have been on the same place where we did camped. not all the way back we come from, but at least untill the next valley.

down the river bed. this day pretty much everything you can have on a ski tour happend. we took snow bridges not very thik.

close to the edge on ice cold water

and we did hit a dead end again. a waterfall 50 m down

but our spirit was high. skies on the backpack

and up the side of the river bed to cross higher up the waterfall

2 step up, 1 step sliding down. to be honest it safe me the day. for me it was such fun to get the skies off and get up the hill in our skie shoes. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome

bleppi on the go

markus in the front

a cuople of hours later in our second hut. it is pretty cool in norway, htere are thousends of huts in the hills and all open. just put the money on the table. and it is working. pretty awesome ha. a chicken soup can be so good

our our cooking place

next day down on sea level. no snow anymore. this procedure we know. ski on the backpack and keep walking.

1 or 2 km not too bad this day. back on the main road i hitched back to get the car. fetched the other guys and loaded my lula again.

on the bottom of the valley we could not get down the day before

up thru the woods but

reward was cool.

it was not a hut it was a lodge

with three idiots

in the mittle of nowhere

right on a frozen lake with a stunning few

next morning. get up stand up.

10 cm new snow

it can't get better. i know i do wright that offen. its sounds silly, but it is just like that

thats it. done. a week of happyness, hard work and so much fun.

down below the 3 reindeer

mike aka veggele

markus aka beppi

markus aka buschmann

happy little gilmores

and markus in my lounge back to tromsoe

the last night together sleeping in the car park in front of the airport.

thanks markus and markus. i have never imagine in my live to do such a trip. thanks for your patience and that you looked after me. and most for being such good mates. it was aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome. 

von lyngseiden bis nach fluruflaten bin i glaufa. pfiess hommer weh do ;-)