Monday, January 5, 2009

Roadtrip to The Sunnmøre Alps !

Simon in front and Oscar is cruising away from the lift. you can see another part of the resort on the left in the background.


Oskar demonstrates how to do the "Telemark" turn. he switched to snowboard in the evening floodlight session.

Simon enjoying the scenic wiev !

Simon always skies with a lot of control. he is hard to follow as well !

You got to have some rest !


Simon and Oskar is "claiming" the day !
No comment on this one..
Just before/During a party for the workers at the Haukeli hotel, the idea of a roadtrip to Stranda in the Sunnmøre alps appeared.. the morning after Simon,Oskar,Victor and me started on the 10 hour drive. the Sunnmøre alps is located in the northwestern corner of Norway, and is famous for big snowfalls and epic mountain ranges ! Today we cruised around in close to a foot of fresh,dry powder. it was a bit tracked in some places but we hiked to and found some untracked snow ! were gonna stay here for a week and the forecast is for about a 6 feet of powder...
Stay tuned !

2 comments:

George Markopoulos said...

Pal,
you know, I thought when you left maui, there'd be no more interesting posts from you. Boy was i wrong. The pictures and skiing look fabulous. I appreciate the posts very much.

When is yout next realistic chance to windsurf? May?

Pål Rype said...

Thanks ! i can windsurf in Norway in the winter on the mild days. still cold though. i find ordinary surfing more interresting than windsurfing in the winter. i like waves the most, and wave sailing in the norwegian winter is a little bit extreme. some weatherbitten surfers do though ! realisticly i will start to sail in early April. might squeese in some flatwater blasting sessions during winter maybe.