Stavanger - South Norway Mountains
The end of march was another chance to enter a FWQ
competition, and the next stop would be Stavanger Freeride. My first impressions on Stavanger was that it was OK but in many ways reminded me of back home, until venturing further into the fishermans quarter which had some very nice looking houses. Heading further into the city streets i found some really cool street art and independent works tagged randomly on everything from the steps to satellite dishes. The town itself is pretty quaint and idyllic but appears very much like a place to live a quiet life.
The trip actually started out pretty weird, I made my way to the accommodation which turned out to be a hospital for outpatients, yes you heard that right, I also booked 1 day early by mistake and ended up losing my booking so i had to make last second plans and find alternative accommodation which turned out pretty well in the end because i found a great hostel on the outskirts of the city in a place called Sandnes, not far away from pulprit rock but i never got a chance to head out there to experience it whilst there. The funny thing is that i still managed to watch the Manchester united game with a few united supporters from Norway on the first night of my arrival. the Norwegians i met were really nice and friendly and pretty fanatical, They were actually visiting Manchester for a follow up game a few days later and only entered the hostel/hotel to watch the game because of lack of digital tv back home, The staff were really nice too and i got talking to a few whilst i was there.
The event was a none starter for me because of the situation which i explained earlier in a previous post, We had some real bad communication issues with the event organisers and well it was just straight up bs and a little disappointing to miss the event because of this but the saving grace was meeting the two American riders fish and ilia and also our Italian rider who we met at a local resort which we visited as alternative plans to the event, we had a real fun day and the italian dude showed us around every inch of terrain to explore around the resort, luckily this day made the whole trip and we discovered some incredible backcountry terrain and deep powder trails all the way down the parking lot, it was a hidden gem destination that we would have never come across otherwise. We returned back to Stavanger and discussed the issues with the event organisers at the closing party of the event, Fish was ready to start a fight with the guys, luckily we managed to calm the situation down and as a result of the issues we were given some free mountain gear almost as compensation for the screw up, it was bittersweet but we left out of there with our consolation gear not sticking around for the afterparty and made our way back home.
The trip actually started out pretty weird, I made my way to the accommodation which turned out to be a hospital for outpatients, yes you heard that right, I also booked 1 day early by mistake and ended up losing my booking so i had to make last second plans and find alternative accommodation which turned out pretty well in the end because i found a great hostel on the outskirts of the city in a place called Sandnes, not far away from pulprit rock but i never got a chance to head out there to experience it whilst there. The funny thing is that i still managed to watch the Manchester united game with a few united supporters from Norway on the first night of my arrival. the Norwegians i met were really nice and friendly and pretty fanatical, They were actually visiting Manchester for a follow up game a few days later and only entered the hostel/hotel to watch the game because of lack of digital tv back home, The staff were really nice too and i got talking to a few whilst i was there.
The event was a none starter for me because of the situation which i explained earlier in a previous post, We had some real bad communication issues with the event organisers and well it was just straight up bs and a little disappointing to miss the event because of this but the saving grace was meeting the two American riders fish and ilia and also our Italian rider who we met at a local resort which we visited as alternative plans to the event, we had a real fun day and the italian dude showed us around every inch of terrain to explore around the resort, luckily this day made the whole trip and we discovered some incredible backcountry terrain and deep powder trails all the way down the parking lot, it was a hidden gem destination that we would have never come across otherwise. We returned back to Stavanger and discussed the issues with the event organisers at the closing party of the event, Fish was ready to start a fight with the guys, luckily we managed to calm the situation down and as a result of the issues we were given some free mountain gear almost as compensation for the screw up, it was bittersweet but we left out of there with our consolation gear not sticking around for the afterparty and made our way back home.
Below is a Picture Diary of the Stavanger post on the travels for competition in the Freeride World Qualifier
Stavangers Art Scene is trippy
Heavenly resort that we visited on a pow day
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