Comments on: Ski Safari Iran 2009

By: Raymond Ghaffari

Raymond Ghaffari — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:42:00 +0000

ne mélangez pas la montagne avec la ville, peu importe la quelle,
la montagne est la nature, inégalée, prenez plaisir, et laissez pour les autre telle que vous l’avez trouvé. rahman de paris.
j’ai skié a dizine il y a 30 ans, et je vous ai laissé ma montagne, et je prend plaisir a la votre chez vous mais, c’est plus chère!!!!!!!
la montagne c’est sacré dit THANAK.

By: Valentin

Valentin — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:24:43 +0000

Hey, we also made a small movie about splitboarding, snowboarding and freeriding in Iran. You can watch it here: http://www.vimeo.com/23845161

And for those who speak german, there is a trip-report in the bergzeit-blog: http://blog.bergzeit.de/4205/reise/freeriden-im-iran

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:50:27 +0000

Hi Espen – my friend and I are going to Dizin in 4 days. Do you know anything about the snowconditions?
yr.no says that there will be snow on sunday byt noting about the current condition and snowpack on the mountain. Hope you can help, Thanks

By: Espen Antonsen

Espen Antonsen — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:18:51 +0000

Alex: Thanks for your comment. Too bad you were unlucky with the snow conditions. Like any ski resort they have to wait until there is enough snow to open. And even though they are ok with you skiing down by yourself it is something else to open the slope for everyone when there is not enough snow. Yeah, the food is fairly basic, just kebabs. Unfortunately they do not serve traditional persian dishes which is really good and more tasteful than kebabs. Regarding the communication problems I can just say that travelling in countries where english is not the first language or widely spoken is always a challenge. I loved Dizin and really think you will love it if you go back when there is enough snow.

By: alex

alex — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:37:09 +0000

We arrived to Dizin just a few days ago and only for 4 days. All ski lifts are closed and they explain it with lack of snow on the slopes and that it is dangerous for us to snowboard here. But the same time they also said that they don’t mind us walking up the hill and ride down, somehow it is not dangerous any more. We did it two days in a row, there is a 4k road which takes you to the top of one of the lifts. Went down – snow is awesome, well, of course there are a few stones, but this is normal. So we tried to explain it to the skilifts management trying to convince them to open the liftsat least for one ride so we don’t have to walk for 2-3 hours for a 10 minutes ride, but did not succeed. So basicaly we’re leaving tomorroe and had only 2 proper rides. Beside that we found food really boring here, people are not very helpful since it’s just very difficult to communicate, they give different answers to different people for the same question, these days phrases “no pist”, “lift close”,”cannot help” we heard like a million times.
IO saw a few really nice vids before i came here and was really expecting something awesome, but it came out as the worst snowboard trip ever. I would never recommend any of my friends to visit this place unless they’re 100% sure there is snow and lifts are open, but everybody should be ready for boring evenings, unless you came with a big company and brought some fun with you.

By: Anoosh

Anoosh — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:44:52 +0000

Okay i understand what you mean, but what im trying to say is that you could have shown other things besides Mosques and only Islamic views in Iran.

By: Espen Antonsen

Espen Antonsen — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:19:35 +0000

Anoosh: Iran has many sides, this is one of them.

By: Anoosh

Anoosh — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:41:27 +0000

salam Espen,
I hope you are fine….i like this video but i think Tehran is completely different from what you’ve shown us.
I think you have only seen the poor parts of Tehran (I hope you understand me )

By: Tannaz

Tannaz — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:07:46 +0000

Espan, you have experienced a totally different version of the winter in Iran than the one i always do. it’s interesting to see and hear about your experience!
That is an arabic song but i honestly don’t see the reason why you were being so insulted for it… i apologise for that.
“shine on – Rio” is the song i listened to everyday on my way to Dizin from Tehran last winter. it made me feel very nostalgic
I hope you had a great time and that you’d want to come back again someday!
have a lovely winter full of snow!!

By: Espen Antonsen

Espen Antonsen — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:35:47 +0000

Salam Ashin. Whistler seems awesome. Never been to North America in the winter, would love to go though.
Espen