Arctic Norway and Sweden – April 2024
Ten Loiper members had a wonderful trip to Sweden. Nearly a year in the planning, some of us had fond memories of our last northern-Norway Lyngen Alps trip in 2017. This time we went with Mountain Spirit and stayed for a week on the NW side of the Lyngen peninsular doing day trips with Wolfgang and his assistant guide Pere. Neil, Jon, Keith, David, Alan, Tim and Penny, and Peter and Alison (9 of us) managed a warm-up week in northern Sweden, staying at the hotel in Riksgransen, close to the Norwegian border. That gave us the option of skiing on piste at Riksgransen, or day touring from there, or from nearby Bjorkliden which was just a 40 minute drive away. No excuse for not being fit for our following…