Our second trip to the island of Uloya. This time a different drop off on the other side of the island at a small fishing port.
Tonnes of stock fish were drying in the cold air and we had a chance to look in the old village shop, just about the only building on the island [...]
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A bad weather day to say the least. After getting up early anticipating a long day we changed the plans and skinned up the home mountain behind Lyngen Lodge.
More great scenery to take in during a cold slog uphill. With 10cm of fresh snow overnight we had to break trail all the way to the [...]
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Steve the squirrel decided to hitch a ride on the back of houghty’s sack.
We began the week with a skin up behind the lodge to the summit of Sorbmegaiser. Not great weather and although good snow visibility was poor higher up. This was a great first day kit tester and no failures to report.
Enroute we crossed [...]
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This was uncharted territory for both us and our guide, Nigel Shepherd (Shep). Shep has been an International mountain guide for nearly 30 years so knows his stuff and after a cracking trip to Zermatt last year he invited Houghty and I out to Norway to explore the Lyngen Alps. A guide he knows from [...]
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