Magnificient terrain with endless posiibilities, long descents all the way down to sealevel, untouched and unspoiled.
What we do want as tourskiers is new terrain everyday. We want to travel light and enjoy skiing at it´s best.
But how do you ski a remote place with almost no huts, and without the limitations off a basecamp.
Well you can carry all your gear yourself which means hard work and less fun skiing or you hire a musher to transport your gear!
One sledge, one musher, fourteen dogs and a lot off gear. The musher will take the “low road” to a meeting point, while you go with daypacks to climb and ski everything on your way. In the afternoon you meet up, make camp, and decides the plan for the next day. The musher will break down camp, and if you are lucky it will be set again when you arrive in the afternoon on a new location..
How does it work out in real life?
We were five guys who made a little skiexpedition in late march.
A few days of testing gear and the mountains around Tasiilaq, the capital of eastgreenland. Great skiing, easy access and 1500-2000 feet peaks with skiing down to sealevel. Unfortunately weather was cloudy and foggy and there had been some rain.
We took off on our expedition and at the lunchbreak everything cleared and we had our first little descent, on a sunny slope with 5 inches of fresh powder.
On our way down a glacier later that afternoon we could spot our musher and his fourteen dogs coming down another glacier. At the bottom we met, arriving from each side to our first meeting point. Perfect timing.
Our musher made everything work out for us. Besides from a day in the tents because of bad weather, we enjoyed the most fantastic skiing and the most spectacular views on our roundtrip.
In the middle of the Ammassalik island the tourist agency has three primitive huts. These huts was were the fifth day ended, and we would say goodbye to the musher. For the next days we would use the huts as our base and ski the surrounding mountains. The skiing in this area was great too, and even though we found only little powder we could not be more satisfied. A snowmobile picked up our gear and brought it back to town, while we skinned up the huge Mittivikatglacier, and skied back to Tasiilaq. From the top we could see the icebergs in the great Sermilikfjord sailing by. A fantastic picture that has stayed in our mind.
Watch our 5minute video about the trip with great scenes of beautiful places and happy skiers. See video clip here.
What to bring:
Ski-/touringequipment must be brought to Tasiilaq. It is not possible to buy any specialequipment Remember proper equipment for glaciering.
Food can be bought in the local supermarket, but if you want freezedried food, you must bring it yourself. One of the advantages of using a dogsledge to carry your equipment is that you can bring “real” food.
How to plan a trip:
The easiest way to Tasiilaq is via Iceland. Go to Keflavik International airport, and then to Kulusuk via Reykjavik Domestic airport. When you land in Kulusuk you have a ten minute helicopterflight to Tasiilaq. The area around Kulusuk is also very great for skitouring, and you can choose to use a few days skiing there.
Further details on where to go, different routes etc. contact
When to go:
The best period for skitouring is from medio march until the beginning of may. In March it can be quite cold but the snow is great. April is just superb, and in May the snow becomes slushy but you will have long and sunny days. Dogsledgesupport can be difficult in may.
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