I promised I would stop posting pictures with snow in them - so I tried but at least this one has some moss and rocks and other stuff.
My esteemed manager
Torstein told Joel and Leif and I that he would take us for a little ski trip in a national park over Easter break. He wasn't kidding. We left at 8:30 in the morning and I think I got home at 9 at night. In between was many hours of skiing and a few hours of sitting around a campfire cooking up some grub. We also drove up possibly one of the worst looking roads I've ever seen in my life. (and it was a toll road) I was quite certain we were going to have to push that car out of some nasty looking mud ruts but somehow we made it through there.
Torstein drove like a world champion rally car driver to get us through. I tried to get more pictures but the battery died after about 10 shots so this was maybe the best one I was able to get. We spent quite a bit of time skiing above the tree line, which isn't that high at this latitude (maybe 400 meters or so). Skiing up the small mountain wasn't that bad actually, it was much harder coming down the other side on narrow
XC skis and wet snow. We all made it though, no deaths or serious injuries were reported. I didn't see any reindeer or big animals while we were skiing but of course on the way back we saw a moose about 5 minutes outside of Trondheim. I think this was the last week any skiing would be possible in that park, the snow was still deep in places but very wet and hard to ski in. Anyway I'm glad we were able to make that trip. Many thanks to
Torstein and
Eirik for guiding us.
My esteemed manager Torstein told Joel and Leif and I that he would take us for a little ski trip in a national park over Easter break. He wasn't kidding. We left at 8:30 in the morning and I think I got home at 9 at night. In between was many hours of skiing and a few hours of sitting around a campfire cooking up some grub. We also drove up possibly one of the worst looking roads I've ever seen in my life. (and it was a toll road) I was quite certain we were going to have to push that car out of some nasty looking mud ruts but somehow we made it through there. Torstein drove like a world champion rally car driver to get us through. I tried to get more pictures but the battery died after about 10 shots so this was maybe the best one I was able to get. We spent quite a bit of time skiing above the tree line, which isn't that high at this latitude (maybe 400 meters or so). Skiing up the small mountain wasn't that bad actually, it was much harder coming down the other side on narrow XC skis and wet snow. We all made it though, no deaths or serious injuries were reported. I didn't see any reindeer or big animals while we were skiing but of course on the way back we saw a moose about 5 minutes outside of Trondheim. I think this was the last week any skiing would be possible in that park, the snow was still deep in places but very wet and hard to ski in. Anyway I'm glad we were able to make that trip. Many thanks to Torstein and Eirik for guiding us.
Since I had a fully charged battery, I managed to take more pictures than Miles did. These can be found on http://leifalexandre.smugmug.com/gallery/7860913_nvjpY/1/509640247_TN4Vh
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Leif.
Really hard to take pictures not involving snow right now. I was a little bummed to not get any more XC practice in for this year, but going home to the US was awesome.
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