After our long drive east, we ended up in Eskifjordur for the night, a nice little fishing town lost in the fjords, but we also ended up in a hot pool by the fjord, watching the snow falling in the night... Eskifjordur has a secret, a ski resort!!! The
Oddsskarð ski resort has some nice terrain and couloirs accessible directly from this one main drag lift going up to 900m above the fjord. They don't usually run the lift in the morning in the week but the friendly manager of the resort opened the lift just for us, it was quite foggy but we had the good surprise to discover the backside of the resort clear of clouds, you can then ski down to the next valley where a car car can pick you up after driving through a misty 700m tunnel, a tunnel with a giant doors that opens when you get close enough... We took a few laps in the backside riding nice untracked (of course) couloirs straight down to the road. The weather started opening in the front side as well and we could see the fjord waters shining 900m below us. We filmed a couple of nice lines in a north face above the piste and ended our day in the hot pool again, talking about tomorrow plan, the local snowmobile guys are motivated to drag us up the mountain, so we'll see what happens!
Check out Oddskard at
www.oddsskard.is
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| A bit of fresh snow this morning |
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| The view from the top of the resort |
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| Michele is waiting for the clouds to clear |
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| Pier enjoying a couloir just above the resort |
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| Pier, Michele and Paul (far in the middle) in the backside of the resort |
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| Paul looking for the entrance of a narrow couloir |
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| here is the couloir, maybe a bit narrow, maybe not? |
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| Paul enjoying the late afternoon powder above the fjord |
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| Out on the road scouting for faced to ski |
