Best wishes for 2014 to everyone!
Kickstart of the new year with a weekend trip up to Venabu. We took a lucky guess to wait one more week before we drove up, which proved to be a good choice as the past week had steadily brought in new snow. Little or no wind made sure it was all still there, loose and powdery. Guarantee for knee-deep plodding, burning legs and breathtaking views.
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| saturday: the sun is giving it a try |
Our sunday was an even more unexpectedly surprisingly fun and rewarding day. Deciding agains a posh-alpine resort we stayed around and had 2 unexpected outings. First we took along a group of guests of the hotel on one of their first round of cross-country skiing of their vacation. Surprisingly, even though their experience skiing was little, it did not take long before their pace actually made us break a sweat! Great, rewarding experience.
The afternoon sort of escalated from a possible short round with our friend Robert, to a 'topptur' to Dynjefjellet. We made the hours and minutes of daylight left in the day count and plodded our way up (thank god for the short skins under our skies) and quickly down again. The descent was truly magical as we came down to a forest, with trees covered in a really thick layer of snow. Almost as in a fairytale. So quiet, so beautiful.
See pictures below and some more under the links at the bottom of this post
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| sweat is weakness leaving the body, right? |
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| Keep on rising....up to Dynjefjell |
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| Dynjefjell - but nearly running out of daylight |
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| fairytale forest |
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| and deeeeep powder:) |
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