Nice Monday

7AM: -3,5 Celsius, light air from NW, partly cloudy, good visibility.
Update: Nice skisafari in the Northern areas of Venabygdsfjellet, then skied across to Brennflya. Quite icy in the morning, but great conditions during the day. Stayed off-piste most of the day.

 

 

Sunday

7AM: +1,5 Celsius, sunny, Light air from N-NW.
Update: Another rather warm day, approx +4 at the warmest. We start to see a few signs of spring.

Warm Saturday

7 AM: -4 Celsius, light air from N. Sunny.
Update: The warmest day so far this season, almost +10 Celsius at the warmest! Sunny all day, but slightly misty because of the high temperature.

Friday

7AM: -3,5 Celsius, light air from N, sunny.
Update: Another warm day! Klisterconditions in the tracks and in the lower parts, but still dry snow higher up.
Beautiful tours under the blue sky!
Easy tour in the southern areas, round Kyrkjegardsfjell, skisafari from Venåssetra towards Eldåbu.

Warm Thursday

A day with big changes!
7 AM we had approx. -2 Celsius, light breeze from N, cloudy, but good visibility.
Later it cleared up and the temperature got as high as +6 Celsius. Then it got misty, because of the heat.

 

We started skiing on blue extra, but had to change to red and in the afternoon it was time for klister.  Despite of some stops for changing wax, we had to nice tours, one to Indre Uksan and the other one to Gråhøgdbu and Dørfallet/canyon.

Wednesday

6AM: -5 Celsius, light breeze from S-SE, nice sunrise!
We have learnt this winter that wind from S-SE means cloudy weather, even today when the forecast said sunny.
We still had great skiing conditions and good visibility. The tours today were snowshoetour to Myfallet and skisafari from Gunstadseter, through Svabudalen and back to Venabu. On the skisafari we saw reindeer, just 3-400 m away. Beautiful light on the way back.

Sunny Tuesday

7AM: -13 Celsius, light breeze from N, no clouds!
Update: It's easy to be a guide when it's nice and sunny, not to much wind and great skiing conditions :-) We had a great tour to Dørfallet/canyon and round Veslefjell, and a longer one on the Troll-løype to Måsåplassen, just skiing towards the sun the whole day!

Beautiful Monday

7AM: -6,3 Celsius, light breeze from S-SE, partly cloudy, good visibility.
Update: The wind turned to N-NW and blew the clouds away. We had a great skisafari to Dynjefjell, with lunch on the top! Then we skied down to Dynjeseter on "silk conditions".

Changing Sunday

7AM: Cloudy, -6,3 Celsius, light breeze from S-SE and cloudy. During the day it cleared up and we had some beautiful tours.

Saturday

Partly cloudy/partly sunny day, good skiingconditions. We got a few cm of fresh snow in the afternoon.

Nice Friday

7AM: -3 Celsius, gentle breeze from W-SW, partly cloudy, good visibility.
Update: Great skisafari to Gråhøgdbu and Dørfallet. Intermediate tour in the area Veslefjell-Dørfallet. Good skiingconditions both in and outside the track. Blue extra most of the day, violet would have been better for a short while :-)

Foggy Thursday

7 AM:  -8 Celsius, light air from SE,  low visibility and about 5 cm of fresh snow.
Update: Skisafari from Måsåplassen  in foggy conditions. We also had a shorter tour round Trabelia with some off piste. Increasing wind and higher temperatures during the day.

 

 

Snowy Wednesday on snowshoes

7AM: -10.2 Celsius, light air from E-SE, snowing, limited visibility and about 2-3 cm of fresh snow in last 24hrs.
Late update - great tour and company to Myafallet - while it was snowing.

Tuesday - Skisafari in Svabudalen

6AM: -11.1 Celsius, light breeze from N, partly cloudy, good visibility, some fresh snow overnight.
Late update: Great skiing in Svabudalen area.

Windy Monday

8AM: -6.2 Celsius, moderate breeze from W-NW, partly cloudy, good visibility.

Late update: Windy and sunny day out on and around Dynjefjell - skiing off piste was great fun!

Sunday

6AM: -8 Celsius, light breeze from W-NW, partly cloudy, good visibility and some precipitation in last 24hrs.

New snow and a great tour to Muen

7AM: -6.8 Celsius, moderate breeze from W-NW, great visibility, partly cloudy and some fresh snow.
Late update: We had a fantastic tour to Muen and back in mixed conditions with great views and no views.

Wind and change

6AM: -2 Celsius, fresh breeze from W-NW, great visibility, partly cloudy. We are expecting some precipitation later today.
Late update: Nice tours from Venaseter enjoying the change moving into Venabygdsfjellet. Now we have some fresh snow - back to winter mode!

Thursday

Skisafari to Dynjefjell. A great day, we managed to reach the top. A bit challenging on the way down on the southern side.

Thursday

6AM: -3.8 Celsius, light air from E-SE, partly cloudy, great visibility.

Wednesday - Northern areas

6AM: -0.2 Celsius, light air from S-SW, partly cloudy, great visibility.
Late update: Another nice day on skisafari exploring the northern areas around Muen.

Skisafari continues

Today we had another great skisafari tour on Trolloypa from Måsåplassen. We spotted some fresh reindeer tracks and some amazing views coming over to Venabygdsfjellet.

Cold and colorful morning

6AM: -7.8 Celsius, light air from N-NE, partly cloudy, great visibility.

Monday

6AM: -3.7 Celsius, light air from E-SE, partly cloudy, good visibility.
Afternoon update - great day out in klister conditions along with strong light shows and wind.

Sunday

7AM: -1 Celsius, moderate breeze from S, limited visibility, foggy and about 1-2cm of fresh snow in last 24hrs.
10AM: It is partly cloudy, good visibility, +0.1 Celsius, moderate breeze from S.
Late update: It has been warm all day - temperature reached +6.2 Celsius - moving into klister condition.

Saturday - sunny again

7AM: -3.8 Celsius, light breeze from SW, fair visibility, snowing and about 2-3cm of fresh snow in last 24hrs.
Late update: it turned out to be a great sunny day with amazing snow conditions.

Friday - snowing

1PM: 0 Celsius, fresh breeze from S-SE, snowing, foggy and limited visibility.

Thursday

7AM: -2.2 Celsius, some wind from S, foggy, limited visibility.

More fog and wind - Southern tour

8AM: -2.3 Celsius, gentle breeze from S, limited visibility, foggy, about 1-2cm of fresh snow in last 24hrs.

Late update: we had a nice tour with mixed conditions around Kyrkjegardfjell and Trabeliafjell - in some parts were lot of grip some parts were no grip - overall: good time! We even managed to see some sunshine through the fog.

Skisafari from Måsåplassen to Venabu

Beautiful conditions with soft, freshly cut tracks the first part of the tour and good visibility, then more difficult with no visibility at all!