Up the Lyngen peninsula

Well the day dawned well. Fog on Tromsoya island where Tromso sits. And then we were off to the Lyngen Alps which last time I saw them were brilliant with deep snow. Eventually a long walk to a glacier hanging above a blue lake. 

Although only 4km it was a right sweat over a huge boulder field - the boulders  varied in size but the field didn't - it was vast.


The sun beat down and then we entered the lugubrious world of the last huge moraine and the blue lake.

A hugely satisfying day looking at the geology, the plantology and doing the sweatology. I wrote a long treatise on the glaciation of the gabbro mountains of the Lyngen on my website. They are made of the same rock as Skye's Cuillins.

Also came across Sami people doing a huge gather of their reindeer.

The photo is The Boss showing the scale of the huge boulder barrier before the blue lake. Lucky we had the huskies to pull the sleds loaded with tins of pemican.

The peak is 1543m and called Store Jaegarvasstindane.