All I Want Is A Life Full Of Laughter: juni 2015

søndag 28. juni 2015

Time to go home

We left at 7 am for Mineralnye Vody, then we changed in Moscow. Arrived in Oslo saturday evening. Sigvald continued to Stavanger and the other two were at home. Me and Andreas had to spend the night at the airport then we took a flight to Bodø where Andreas went to Svolvær and I had to wait for my connection to Leknes. My neighbour Anne Marie picked me up at the airport, that was really kind of her. My fridge was kind of empty but it was good to be back home at Lofoten. Tomorrow it's time for work again.

fredag 26. juni 2015

Last night in Baksan valley

Today we just did lots of fun things all day and night...

torsdag 25. juni 2015

Day of rest

Today we had breakfast at 9. As usual oatmeal porridge, 3 fried eggs, white bread, thick slice of cheese and coffee. Even if hardly anyone manages to eat all of this they kept doing the same amount and communication was a bit difficult with the kitchen staff. After breakfast we went to the next village. One Terje stayed. We went all the way to Azau. It was another sizzling hot day. Sigvald and Andreas took the cable car to Garabashi at 3800 m. Me and Terje already know this place so we went for a beer. Later they came down and joined us. As we went back to our hotel it started raining, just a light refreshing summer rain. I bought some knitted mittens for my self and some to give away. Then I think we had some more beer...

Steady breakfast.

Shopping.

Daily life in a russian village.

Joys of Russia.

Photo: Andreas

Enjoying holiday.

This picture makes me SMILE!

What can I say? Photo: Andreas.

onsdag 24. juni 2015

Back to civilization

At 07.30 am I woke up the others since the weather was absolutely fabulous and we intended to go to Patorn Peak. It was a sizzling hot summerday. We all had breakfast outside! Then we were off. Terje and Terje stayed to work on their tan. Really close to the last snow chute I hit my knee on a rock when sinking down in the edge of the snow field so I stayed and watched them heading up. When we were descending we saw a bunch of russians who set camp close to us. I tried to have a conversation but soon gave up. They were a whole bunch. Maybe russians like to hike in big groups? We had lunch and then decided we would descend all the way today. It was a long and strenuous hike down to the village and we came down just before 9 pm. We called for transport and only had to wait 15 min. We got our rooms. I had a really quick shower before we went to restaurant Semerka. There was high life with a group from Pilgrim celebrating that they summited with a lot of vodka and crazy dancing. It was quite fun with chaos, happy people, drunk people, good food and cold beers like we were in a movie by Emir Kusturica.

Daily morning routine - sunscreen.

Looking for the peak...

Summer day in the mountains.

Flower.

Crossing the river. Photo: Sigvald

Photo: Sigvald

Descending.

A whole bunch of sheeps.

Tree.

Following the river.

The path.

The path again.

Having a break before sand towers.

The least blurred image from the evening.

tirsdag 23. juni 2015

Day 9

Today we are descending to 2922 m. After crossing the glacier I picked up the tent that I left at the Irik chat camp. Descending to 3500 m where Terje and Terje had a great hurry getting down to green grass while we wanted to play a little in the blue glacier ice first so we put on crampons and got up there to have a look. Later we headed down to 2922 and set camp in a beatiful meadow of flowers. Horses grazed on the other side of the river. We came down around 5 pm. It was an absolutely wonderful summer day so we had dinner outside all together.