Been a long time but one of my favorite trips ever.
Final approach into ENSB from the east. The loc is quite significantly offset.
Longyearbyen houses at Svalbard
Fantastic rock formations on the way to Barentsburg
Peter wrote:
but have almost never seen a solid gap of say 3-4 days of wx which doesn’t involve moderate to severe icing, and airline pilots confirm that.
Way exaggerated. Need to choose your season. May-Oct should not be too much of a problem. And soon you’ll have TKS…
Peter wrote:
…have almost never seen a solid gap of say 3-4 days of wx which doesn’t involve moderate to severe icing, and airline pilots confirm that.
Norway is tricky weather-wise with the mountains causing airmass lifting during the prevailing westerly winds. The southwestern parts have among the highest amounts of precipitation i Europe.
Wonderful pics 
I have a customer in Trondheim and have been looking at popping up there. I can do it nonstop from Shoreham, even avoiding much of the N Sea (doing the curved route) but have almost never seen a solid gap of say 3-4 days of wx which doesn’t involve moderate to severe icing, and airline pilots confirm that.
Great
24. Almost 2 hour drive from Bardufoss: Hamn i Senja (well worth it)
25. View from Sukkertoppen at Senja:
26. Going to Svolvær in better weather
27. Trollfjord, still on the Lofoten islands
28. Just north of Lofoten
29. Flying by Hamn i Senja, view on the hotel
30. Leaving Tromsø
31. Tromsø to Hammerfest
32. The North Cape
33. Final at Hammerfest (don’t forget PPR ahem)
34. Departing Hammerfest
35. Now, here we are really talking desolation!
Since you all seem to appreciate the desolation, this made me go through my photos of our Norway trip from May last year, of which I had promised to post photos but never got around to it.
1. Somewhere south of Bergen:
2. Final at Bergen
3. Bergen downtown
4. Mountainside south of Bergen, on the way to Lysefjord
5. Lysefjord
6. Fjells south of Lysefjord
7. Turning north
8. Iced up lake on the way from Lysefjord to Sogndal
9. Departing Sogndal
10. Cloud and mountains on the way from Sogndal to Trondheim
11. Final at Trondheim after breaking through the cloud layer
12. Trondheim to Bodø (planned to Svolvær)
13. Coastline
14. Coastline
15. This should be Sandnessjøen airport
16. More coastline
17. Coastline
18. Coastline
19. Coastline
20. Coastline just south of Bodø
21. Diverting into Bodø due to low cloud ahead
22. Enroute from Bodø to Bardufoss (IFR)
23. Approach into Bardufoss
I love the desolation! LOL, great pics and report!
Great pictures! Honestly – I can understand LeSving
More desolation. Hjørundfjorden
Ålesund
Road infrastructure
Bergen
A little taste from the fish market in Bergen
A little peek at Southern Norway
A whaling ship (now museum)
Approach to Sandefjord Torp (ENTO)
