All the way over the top!
Like a Christmas tree! Can you see it? Like tinsel!
Here comes the wind! Let us get ready!
and off we are to the summit!
I already have been to Alaska with Philip in 2012 and 2014.
We did two big projects and tried to kite up huge mountains.
Unfortunately the weather let us down twice!
But I was just not ready yet to give up.
I said to myself let me call Philip and see if he is up for another try!
He convinced me with some pretty nice pictures
and also took onboard two others Tobi and Maxi.
When he talked about the projec, it was clear that I had to join!
The idea is to kite up a mountain and fly, ski or
freeride down again.
Unpack the kite again, kite up, pack down the kite,
get out the speedwing and fly down.
Simply standing on top of a mountain, with the kite up high
and the wind blowing strong...
The biggest concern was as usual How would the weather be?
There are a lot of depression systems passing by with a lot of rain and snow.
Do we finally get the chance?
We arrived in Tromso at the airport with all our luggage
7 bags and 3 boardbags.
I thought how the heck will we fit all of our stuff in this
little VW Passat and drive hundreds and hundreds of kilometers through Norway...
After an amazing drive we made it to our little house on the
Lyngen peninsula from where we wanted to leave for our first big glacier trip.
We started our trip on the Lyngen peninsula in a small fishermen's village.
The snow was awesome - until 3 days of rain. That was annoying!
Has anybody seen the sun?
The weather was so bad that we could not go our glacier tour.
It literally rained and snowed all day and night!
Wednesday looks better, strong winds up high though...
Despite the bad weather we did not allow anyone to dampen our spirits...
What is going on out there?
No matter what we do - he is always sleeping!
In the evening two hours hot tu- relaxing all muscles...
I have to admit, we really have the best weather one can choose!
Avalanches went down everywhere to the left, to the right, in front, below!
I would say it was simply amazing!
It was great!
Are you ready? We are almost done!
I am totally relaxed already!
To find the perfect playground was my personal goal for this trip!
I hope we finally find the perfect playground with this ship!
The others shot upfront with their lightweight Dynafit
toothpick skis - and me with my fat powederskis. I just thought
please let there be wind so that we can unpack the kites ant kite up the mountain!
He tried to pull up the kite, which of course did not work...
Are we there yet? Are we? Are we? I am not sure!
This is it? Is it? Yes! This is it!
When we finally found our playground Tobi and Maxi were unstoppable.
While Philip and me just wanted to go to bed, the other two
went totally crazy and told us to remove all the snow which
they dug out of of the cave!
I always loved to build Igloos and snowcaves when I was a child.
And now finally being on the mountain and having to
acutally build a snowcave to deal with the situation
was something I really enjoyed!
Welcome to the castle!
Welcome to the castle!
Our cooking niche with utensils
one niche for salt and pepper one nihe for gas, trash, groats
packaging, ducktape, cuttlery...
Here is the breakfast niche, camera niche...
This one is for the powerbank and this one for charging.
And up here our ventilation system.
There are also private niches which we are not allowed to filo
...too much highly confidential!
Watch out for the gust!
Fake News...
Complete whiteout!
That's it with the visibility.
Up on the ridge we had to turn around! No chance...
We hurry up now and get back to our basecamp soon.
Yummy! Cheese!
Excellent! And now some Quesadillas!
Good?
Go Go Go! Uo to the summit!
Very frustrating! Coming up here, bringing all the gear...
building a great camp and now only bad weather...
Stop crying!
If you are up here for days and lie in your tent all day
you melt hollow pit's into the snow with your butt.
At the end you slide together more and more for cuddling.
We made the best out of it - we had a lot of fun and
this is something you do not do every day - so it's okay...
We continue! That's clear!
Wait for me!
Then we went on to the Lofoten Islands with the Hurtigruten ferry.
With a granny boat... That was very funny...
Without our knitting gear we felt a bit excluded...
But it was also very nice, we had a great breakfast
and the landscape was just incredible!
I like it!
This is the perfect compensation for bad coffee
and oat meal on the glacier!
The ship just passed the bridge!
Incredible!
Unbelievable scenes are happening right here!
Do we really deserve this?
Of course!
Tobi, what are we doing today?
I am looking for a good run!
Let's go to over there! That mountain looks amazing!
Captain do you think that you can drop us there?
Yes of course - No problem!
Let's go full speed ahead!
17 hours later, all hope was put in the Lofoten Islands.
We finally arrived and... No wind!
Great weather but no wind...
Slowly even I had doubts about how realistic it was
to get this perfect summit day with the kite...
The forecast did not look too bad, so we took the car
to check out the spots!
The wind was a desaster but at least we had some fun!
The wind finally came! However it was the wrong direction!
Discovering new terrain with friends was simply amazing!
Having fun with the crew is always cool on such a trip.
But my expectations were high and I just simply wanted
to kite up a mountain and stand on the summit one time!
We studied the weather every day
and all of a sudden the wind turned!
This compensated everything!
I now believe in the kite again
Kite up with the wind, overtaking the ski tourer
and just having so much fun!
Let yourself be pulled up the mountain by a kiter,
mix and combine all the different sports!
that is my thing!
And then two days full blast!
Sitting in the evening sun watching the sunset for hours
always perfect conditions... just amazing...
It was a great time, with everyone having fun
and enjoying themselves! We had a great time!
It was just fantastic...
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