 Poster: A snowHead
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@fuzzydunlop, wow - looks amazing. Keen to visit Arnøya; we were just south of there a few years ago. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Inboard, Unusual to get a week of settled, clear weather. If you go to ski, bank on losing at least one day to the elements.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@fuzzydunlop, oh nice! Looks like you had slightly more settled weather than us. Lofoten gets pretty wild since the islands stick out into the Norwegian Sea and the gulf stream stirs things up a bit more.
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@fuzzydunlop,
Fantastic! 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Loved the pano shot.
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| rogg wrote: |
| Loved the pano shot. |
+1
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@rogg, @Hurtle, thanks. Made my laptop nearly burn up processing it!
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Day 4: A return to the Varden area amidst yet more changeable weather. There were a lot of teams with the same idea; never seen it so crowded. There must've been 15 people on the summit. The light was quite flat so not the best shot but this gives you an idea of how much snow they'd had recently - right down to sea level.
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Happy team on a lunch stop after poaching freshies in really good snow. It got less good below this altitude...but before that, a shot of @Arno showing he's not just a decent skinning model.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Sharkymark, On Storgalten, Lyngen, the Thursday before Easter, we counted around 300 people heading for the summit.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@fuzzydunlop, what?! Lofoten is still un-busy then. If there's more than two other groups, we pull funny faces
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| fuzzydunlop wrote: |
| ...On Storgalten, Lyngen, the Thursday before Easter, we counted around 300 people heading for the summit.... |
That's staggering!
I've been up the Big Pig and Little Pig five times and we never saw anyone else.
In fact, I've just looked at Google Maps and there are so many lodges/cabins and places that are now catering for skiers up there, and Lyngseidet seems to be far more commercial than when I was last there many moons ago.
Presuming there are many more boats as well going to the surrounding Islands up there as well, would also explain why Svalbard is now the new Lyngen?
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You know it makes sense.
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| Sharkymark wrote: |
| If there's more than two other groups, we pull funny faces |
@Sharkymark I would go a step further - I feel a little put out when the snow/weather forces us to go somewhere where we see anyone at all..!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@offpisteskiing, ssshhhh I’m trying to make out it’s really busy!
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Poster: A snowHead
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@offpisteskiing, don't worry though, day 4 is next and that definitely had no one else on it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Sharkymark,
Our guide had been in the area for six weeks and he said it was much busier than any other time he had been there. But there was some competition for parking spots - Easter is probably a time to avoid.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@fuzzydunlop, may as well go to Serre Chevalier 
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Day 5 is going to be a spam fest: lightroom has been on overdrive today processing photos. There were absolute scenes...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Day 5: Conditions looked good for a couloir on @offpisteskiing's list and off the beaten track. There were no other people here. Like many lines, we could park up on the road at the bottom and be skinning up the guts of it straightaway. @Arno on the ascent.
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@Offpisteskiing on the initial pitch. About 40 deg at most but the convex roll over made it look and feel fairly pokey. The snow was also firm so not a place to fall.
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A pano of the view from about halfway down
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Various shots of @Offpisteskiing, @Arno, @Going Downhill and @Andanotherthing on the descent.
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Wow
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Wow. Envy increasing... 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Noice
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Like so many “off the beaten track” lines in Lofoten - clearly visible and easily accessible from the main road but no-else there
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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This was the line of the week for me. Partly since last year I pointed at it and badgered @Offpisteskiing about the photographic opportunities it would present...
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Bergmeister, thanks; probably my fav set of pics too. The bridge just adds a massive amount of perspective and interest to it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I forgot this one of @Andanotherthing in the lower section of the couloir.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Amazing photos - definitely the line of the week, superbly captured!!
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@Sharkymark, the last one is absolutely brilliant in terms of colour contrast. My favourite, I think.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Wow. It's been said before but just...... wow. It was some photos like this which inspired me to go mid-summer sailing in the Lofotens. But without that height and those vistas (and not to mention without the snow, and without much talent at photography) it's hard to capture the extraordinary place.
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Thanks all
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Day 5 coming soon...post processing needs to catch up with forum posting.
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Day 5: Sunset wasn't too shabby - standard lodge view.
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Day 6: The forecast was for strong winds and mild temps so @offpisteskiing's plan was Matmora, which offered options on various aspects and some south facing couloir lines that would already be spring snow and would be skiable by early afternoon. A couple of B&W shots - this works best in bright sun when the contrast is high and the light is harsh. Once again, my skinning model @Arno shows his talents:
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Close to the summit we did indeed discover the wind was strong. Very strong. Scotland strong. It was gusting 50mph+, hard to stand up and would easily take away a loose ski...let alone gloves/skins/kvikk lunsj. Photography was marginal. Rather than ski the SE face, we opted to ski one of the S facing couloirs that would offer some respite from the stiff breeze. As the sun dropped in the sky a little and some high cloud rolled in, the light got good. Here's @offpisteskiing putting in turns on good spring snow at the top of the line.
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