Återkommer för att tacka dig för ett fantastiskt arrangemang, dessutom snön – riktigt bra. Ditt sätt att hantera oss har givit ordet service ett nytt ansikte. Är du i stan tar jag gärna en fika/lunch vid tillfälle.

Ulf

Hurtigruten
Powder Cruise

We all agreed that this is the ultimate way to combine skiing and adventure travel. The big difference between us and the blue haired pensioners that cruise with Hurtigruten is that we bring our skis and a minibus. Our plan is to make a Legendary Ski Safari with the help of this cruise ship and go from Bergen to Lofoten and Narvik in a week.

Hurtigruten departs every evening from Bergen, and calls at 34 ports on its journey north. There are high mountains which invite to incomparable skiing very close to many of these ports.

Imagine yourself with tired legs after a day on the mountain, roll in with the minibus on the ferry, take the elevator up to your cabin, jump into the Jacuzzi and then enjoy a nice dinner before falling asleep gently cruising to the next port. Go out on the balcony and see the sun come up over the majestic Norwegian Alps, have a breakfast before the minibus rolls on to a new untracked mountain.

This procedure repeated throughout the week, except for a few nights where we believe there is reason to stay overnight. We know that the weather on the Norwegian Vestlandet is anything but stable. Therefore, the program is more than flexible. To get the very best we bring one of Norway’s most experienced skier, Torkel Karoliussen, a star in Free Radical Ski Films, with us as a local guide. Responsible for the safety is our own mountain guide Pelle Bagewitz.

The tour includes:

All cruises with Hurtigruten, minibus to and from skiing, lift tickets, accommodation in double rooms on the boat and at the hotels, breakfast, lunch, dinner, local guide, mountain guide, cat skiing, Rubber Inflated Boat transport and a guide from Alpine Legends that ensures that the journey becomes legendary.

Number of Ski days:
6  weather permitting

Dahu

Few are happy to have seen it. The rare animals from the Dahu family that still walk the mountains and are seen at high altitude. To cope with the really steep mountain sides, it has shorter legs on one side and longer on other.

There are two species, a right-Dahu and a left-Dahu.

To catch a Dahu you whistle. To its own surprise it will suddenly turn around and fall and the hunter can wait below with his hunting bag.

There is a variant with a croissant involved but we prefer to explain that standing together on a south-facing hillside…

Frankenstein

That the story of Frankenstein is written by a 19 year old on a trip in the Alps is little known.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was on the run with her lover and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley visiting Lord Byron in his villa on Lake Geneva. It was the rainy summer of 1816, after history’s largest volcanic eruption (Tambora, Indonesia) when the three chose to sit inside by the open fireplace and read German horror stories to each other.

Lord Byron thought that they would all write their own supernatural tale. Mary wrote a draft during a sleepless night and with encouragement from Percy completed her world famous novel. Some recent researchers claim that the name Frankenstein is taken from Burg Frankenstein in Darmstadt, a place the author is said to have visited on the way to the Alps. Interestingly, in Lucerne, just north of Engelberg they ran out of money and returned to England. He was broke and she was pregnant.

A fate similar to many a ski bum?

Konrad von Sellenbüren

In 1120 Knight Konrad von Sellenbüren wanted to found a monastery, the question was just where it would be. One night the good Knight Konrad had a revelation that he would let a bull lead the way.

He did so and when he came to the valley where Engelberg is today the bull stopped and Konrad understood that he had found the right place. One day when the monastery was completed Konrad and Abbott Adelhelm tried to think of a suitable name for the monastery. Suddenly they heard a choir of angels sing.  They turned around and saw the angelic choir up on top of the mountain Hahn. Engelberg, Angel Hill, felt suddenly a very suitable name, something we are happy to agree with.

Hannibal

The warlord Hannibal is known for taking 37 elephants across the Alps in 218 BC.

Even today, the dispute whether the Carthaginian war army went into Italy via the ski areas Serre Chevalier, Montgenèvre and Sauze d’Oulx, or if it was via Petit St. Bernard Pass and gentle slopes in La Rosière / La Thuile remains. They defied “a roaring snowstorm and lost a large number of elephants”, but persisted and eventually camped north of the off-piste slopes of Gran Paradiso.

We are happy to follow the footsteps of Hannibal with skis on our feet, with or without the company of elephants.

Tack så mycket för hjälpen på vår kick-off. Jag har aldrig varit med om maken på så bra service. Hälsa Cia och Mike så mycket. Upplägget var perfekt med härlig skidåkning och bra möten. Jag återkommer gärna i framtiden för en ny resa.

Nu är det dags att planera inför nästa kick-off i september och Skottland låter väldigt intressant.

Lilian

Tusen tack för ett fantastiskt arrangemang i Borgafjäll! Alla är eniga om att detta är den bästa byråresan genom tiderna. Vacker miljö, underbar mat & dryck, utmanande aktiviteter och helt otroligt härliga och proffsiga reseledare (Anna & Jossan). Stämningen var på topp och vi kommer hem med massor av energi!

Måste säga att ni överträffar er själva varje gång jag åker med er.

Sara

Vill bara säga att vi hade en kanonkonferens. Deltagarna var på topp! Hotellet var perfekt. Vädret så bra som man kan begära. Snön räckte till och solen värmde på lördag och söndag. Guiderna hur bra som helst.

Vi var några som gjorde 2000 fallhöjdsmeter på söndagen, krävande men en upplevelse utöver det vanliga. Vi vill alla rikta ett sort tack för arrangemanget.

Kenneth & Anna

Alldeles för sent kommer här ett stort tack för en fantastiskt välordnad och rolig resa!

Jag har hört så mycket lovord när jag gått runt i korridorerna så jag vill verkligen förmedla det till Dej! Du och Dina medarbetare har verkligen gjort ett superbra jobb!

Ulrica

Nu är vi tillbaka i Svedala med oförglömliga minnen utifrån de härliga dagar vi hade med er i Österrike förra veckan. Dagarna med er var något av det bästa jag upplevt, och jag har tidigare motiverat varför.

Er professionella inställning, gemytet ni skapade, och den skidglädje ni lockade fram är oförglömlig. Superlativen står som spön i backen, men ni är värda alla omnämningar ni kan få.

Martin Netinder, Peak Performance Production AB

January Free ride

One of our absolute favorite assignments during the intense winter season is the Free ride-trip.

Together with a certified Mountain Guide, often our permanent companion with a special eye for virgin powder, Pelle Bagewitz, we tour around with a minibus in a group of six to eight people. The Mountain Guide takes decision on the best runs of the day and our Alpine Legends guide handles the logistics of booking accommodation, restaurants and bars.

A Free ride-trip can be four to eight days. Besides the feeling of being part of this fortunate group of ski enthusiasts, the unforgettable memories consist of good local food, glacier tours, laughter, helicopter skiing, odd bars, sunny picnics, comfy duvet and at least one encounter with an Alpine Legend…

Facts

January Free ride is one of our open Free ride trips. In the Italian Aosta Valley we hike with skins on our skis in March-April and stay in the mountains huts with a 5-course dinner. If you are a group of friends with the same level of skiing ability, we can create an unforgettable ski adventure. We will take you to our unique pearls in the Alps. The price will depend on the choice of flight, accommodation, etc.

Rifugio Guglielmina

Queen Margerita of Savoy was a keen mountain climber, and to her delight the highest ever hotel was inaugurated in 1878 in Olen pass at 2909m, high above the village of Alagna Valsesia.

The founder was shoemaker Giuseppe Guglielmina, who became a hotel entrepreneur. This is where mountaineers could rest on their way to the top of Monte Rosa.

Today the Rifugio Guglielmina is run by the sixth generation Guglielmina, namely Alberto, a former shoemaker. Since only a very few years there is heat and running water in the hotel, and an impressive wine cellar with around 6000 bottles. Guglielmina is where we like to steer our guests’ skis for good food, a grappa in front of the stove, a good night’s sleep and a completely legendary sunrise.

Trygve Smith

The fact that the ski resort of Megève was created by Baroness Noemi de Rothschild is almost written in stone. But who was her Norwegian aide, peer, consultant, who found the site? In dusty tome, we have found the following;

Trygve Smith was born in 1880 in Oslo and died in 1948 in Oslo. In 1902 he wins Sweden’s first organized ski jumping contest in Gothenburg in front of 10,000 spectators. For the historically versed, this is the period of the Swedish Norwegian Union.

In the book “Ski-running” by Ernest Cushing Richardson from 1905 and dedicated to the Ski Club of Great Britain Trygve is mentioned “for many a useful hint and word of advice”.

1909 Trygve jumps 46m in Davos but falls while a Harald Smith (a relative?) sets the world record by 48m. This is all happening in the legendary ski jump Bolgenschanze which today is the name of a hot après-ski place just below the ancient ski jump.

During the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 a Trygve Smith plays tennis. Might it be the same man?

The Walking
Birthday Party

All 60 participants gather in the village of Kandersteg in the middle of Switzerland.

Cable car to the top of Sunnbüel. 2 hour’s easy walk to the historic high mountain Hotel Schwarenbach to drink, party and dinner. Accommodation in dormitories.

Breakfast in the company of good friends. 2 hour’s easy hike up to the picnic-lunch on a cliff on Gemmi at 2350m. Followed by two hours of breathtaking hike down the old Roman path to Leukerbad 1440m.. and three hours of bathing in hot springs. Aperitif, birthday-raclette and all-night party at a cozy hotel in the village. Late breakfast and finally homeward journeys.

Facts

60 individualists want to meet in two days to celebrate a good friend in the Alps. Three different airports and another five arriving by car. We create parties, activities as well as all participants travel plans from concept to homecoming.

Tomas “Tompa” Månsson

1962. A rocker who is a happily married house-owner in Chamonix. He’s a chef, a mountain climber, a skier and a musician with a history as bass player for Sweden’s answer to Bruce Springsteen.

Tatiana Broman

40+. Master Cave Dive Instructor with Russian roots. She has an incredible feel for people as well as being seriously service minded. Moved back from Mexico when she became a proud mother to Frida. A hell-of-a skier.

Pontus Rydlöf

1972. A very international Swede, spent a year in Brasil, left Paris for Nice and Côte d´Azur where he now lives when he’s not on the road . A skiing player with a big heart and fluent in six languages. He’s licensed to drive anything from a Ski doo to a 56-seater coach.

Pelle ”Bagarn” Bagewitz

1970. Our own Mountain Guide IFMGA trained at ENSA in Chamonix, where he lives since last the century. Lately he is enjoying other mountains as well. He is off to Bali surfing as soon as the snow melts.