{"id":29077,"date":"2023-03-12T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=29077"},"modified":"2024-03-30T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:43:18","slug":"lyngen-2023-1-laukslettfjellet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2023\/03\/lyngen-2023-1-laukslettfjellet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyngen 2023&ndash;1 Laukslettfjellet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was looking good and we set off from our cozy air bnb back towards Troms\u00f8. Johannes D went ahead and rented some touring skis as his had not turned up. I watched with horror as we left the blue sky and drove into grey. We\u2019d planned to meet Johannes D just South of Troms\u00f8 with the plan to approach Tromsdalstinden from the South. We started up from the car park&nbsp; with a few patches of light grey in the sky. As we climbed a wall of grey approached and it wasn\u2019t long until we were skinning in falling snow. Tromsdalstinden was not visible and instead we skinned up the gentle slope to Laukslettfjellet. It was cold and windy. We met a Norwegian guy who was there on his split board trying to decide whether to get out his kite. He was also put off by the low visibility. We dropped back down to the tree line quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Skins back on and we headed back up and to the right. We looped back around and descended via steep powdery slopes. The skiing was very good and it was fun making turns through the trees. Johannes D hadn\u2019t had enough and while the others drove back to our accommodation we headed back up once more and found a steep powdery slope on the left to descend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/View-from-our-Air-BnB-Ski-touring-Lyngen-2023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"View from our Air BnB (Ski touring Lyngen 2023)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/View-from-our-Air-BnB-Ski-touring-Lyngen-2023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"View from our Air BnB (Ski touring Lyngen 2023)\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With a few hiccups we arrived in Troms\u00f8, Norway. It was a stormy, snowy afternoon. I picked up our much too small rental car and we failed to fit our skis into it. Instead I drove 1 hour 20 minute laps between Troms\u00f8 and our Air BnB, picking up Johannes and Theresa in the evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Johannes-in-front-of-our-Air-BnB-getting-the-car-ready-Ski-touring-Lyngen-2023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Johannes in front of our Air BnB getting the car ready (Ski touring Lyngen 2023)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Johannes-in-front-of-our-Air-BnB-getting-the-car-ready-Ski-touring-Lyngen-2023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Johannes in front of our Air BnB getting the car ready (Ski touring Lyngen 2023)\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had a big house in \u00d8verg\u00e5rd about 1 hour 20 minutes drive from Troms\u00f8. It was big enough to comfortably sleep six people. There was a fire, heat pump and two kitchens!It was big enough to comfortably sleep six people. There was a fire, heat pump and two kitchens!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Near-the-summit-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Near the summit (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Near-the-summit-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Near the summit (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We arrived at the top in whiteout and heavy snow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/At-the-summit-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"At the summit (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/At-the-summit-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"At the summit (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First peak of the trip! Laukslettfjellet was just a 500 m climb from the car park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Johannes-navigating-trees-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Johannes navigating trees (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Johannes-navigating-trees-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Johannes navigating trees (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In parts it was hard to find a good path down through the trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Theresa-in-powder-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Theresa in powder (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Theresa-in-powder-Ski-touring-Day-1-Laukslettfjellet-Lyngen-2023_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa in powder (Ski touring Day 1 Laukslettfjellet, Lyngen 2023)\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The powder was no problem for Theresa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Day 1 Laukslettfjellet<\/p>\n<p>Moving Time: 2:17:32 Ascent: 1060 m<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/8703377534\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/8703377534\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/8703377534<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was looking good and we set off from our cozy air bnb back towards Troms\u00f8. Johannes D went ahead and rented some touring skis as his had not turned up. I watched with horror as we left the blue sky and drove into grey. We\u2019d planned to meet Johannes D just South of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,121,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-norway","category-ski-touring","category-skiing","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29101,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29077\/revisions\/29101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}