Nallangaisi, Imagaisi, Balgesvarri (16.04.2021)
Written by Sosnovsky (Juan Losada)
Ascents | Bálggesvárri (1,627m) | 16.04.2021 |
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Vestre Bálggesvárri (1,565m) | 16.04.2021 | |
Imagáisi (1,505m) | 16.04.2021 | |
Nállangáisi (1,595m) | 16.04.2021 |
After a terrible weather Easter, we finally got some sun in the North and decided to drive to Lyngen for the weekend. This was my first trip to Lyngen since I moved to Tromsø. The main goal was to do Nallangaisi, after that we could do some of the other summits around Goverdalen if the conditions allowed. I joined Mauricio, who I had met the week before, and two new skiers for me: Erik from Sweden and Bjørn from Norway. All of them were in quite good shape, so I had to make sure I could keep the pace.
We drove from Tromsø kl 18.30 on Friday under the rain. Hopefully, that would be fixed by the next day. We started an 8 km approach in Goverdalen with the pulkas with camping equipment. We made a camp base by the lake right under Rundvatnet (seems to not have a name on the map).
We woke up early the next day and started the ascent to Nallangaisi. The approach was already done the day before, so it quickly became steep. We did a couple of snow profiles that showed good snow stability, so we continued up. We changed to crampons at about 1150m, where the couloir gets narrower and steeper.
At about 1420 we climbed on top of the ridge in a short (<15m) pitch. The snow was very loose, and the rock beneath seemed to have no holds at all! Somehow, Erik managed to get on top of this short hard section and pull the rest of us up (thanks Erik). After that section, only an exposed and somewhat steep traverse was left and some ridge walking. We did this part on a running belay, but it was good enough to do it without a rope. We made the summit on an unbelievable clear sky with awesome views of the surrounding summits. We downclimbed the ridge, rappeled the steep section, and enjoyed a beautiful down ski with nice snow down the couloir.
We took a break and decided to continue with Imagaisi from Steindalsbreen. We crossed the glacier and ascended Imagaisi from the Eastside. We descended a couloir towards Ellendalen and ascended to the coll between Ellendalen and Goverdalen before the last descend to our campsite. Out tents were still in place, and we enjoyed some well deserved cold spaghetti with tuna, pesto and snow before getting to sleep early.
The next day we skied up Blagesvarri twice and decended two different couloirs. The first from Vestre Balgesvarri after walk traversing the ridge between Balgesvarri and Vestre Balgesvarri, and the second was the bowl in the ridgeline. After the two descents, we had enough skiing for the day and descended back to the road after an awesome weekend in Lyngen.
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Written by Øyvindbr 23.04.2021 14:50Beautiful Lyngen! I still hope to visit both Imagaisi, Nallangaisi and Balgesvarri, hopefully sooner than later...
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Written by Sosnovsky 25.04.2021 08:27Indeed, it is an amazing place. Hope you can visit them soon!