Lyngen

Full-time skier Zach Paley, known to many PG readers from Patrick Fux's Japan reports in recent years, spent the spring of 2013 in Norway. As a ski bum, he signed on to a ski touring boat, among other things, and roamed the powder and firn in many places in Scandinavia: from Tromso to the Lyngen Alps to Riksgransen.

Our adventures in the mountains actually start at Zurich main station. A train journey takes us to a mountain village, an ascent to a mountain peak. Weightless turns in the powder make beads of sweat disappear. A day out snowboarding with friends. That's what we love.