More snow on the way

7 AM: -8 Celsius, gentle breeze from N, partly cloudy. Trails prepared in last 48 hours: Trabelia rundt, Kyrkjegardfjell rundt and to Jonnhalt and back towards Lauvasaa, Indre Uksan and Veslefjell roundt. At the moment Forbundsfjellet, Trimloypa, Dynjefjellet and Svartfjellet loops are not prepared - I guess they will be today.
Snow condition outside of trails: rather firm in open areas with some hollow parts around water catchment zones, around forest areas the snow is good, but some areas expect heavier skiing (breaking through) condition.
Snow in trails is hard and almost icy, some places higher up was softer. We would still call it a klister or at least klister based skiing condition.
Looking at weather forecast for the next days: it looks very promising with more snow coming from this evening on until Sunday morning. We hope we could get a few centimeters of snow to refresh the top layer and move back to "blue" condition.

More Photos

Since we finally had a beautiful, sunny winter-day, we'll show you some more photos!

Foggy down in the valley.

Towards Indre Uksan.

The snow shows the way (or at least the wind direction)

Misty along Flaksjøen on the way back.

Sunny day

It has been a great day out on freshly prepared trails. Nice views all around including a small reindeer herd in far distance towards Grahogdbu DNT hut.

Back to winter mode

Good morning - 7AM: -7.8 Celsius, calm, good visibility, partly cloudy and it is looking great.

Still mild

Evening update: It was a nice day with fairly limited visibility and mild conditions. It is getting colder now, so hopefully tomorrow morning we will be back to real winter temperatures and conditions.

Snowshoetour to the waterfall. It had been frozen, but partly melted again.

It might be difficult to see on the photo, but the middle part is running water.
The lower parts looked like trolls!

Mild morning

Good morning! 7AM: -0.2 Celsius, local fog, limited visibility, some wind. It has been snowing for last 6 days - not a huge amount, but little by little the snow-depth is increasing. According to weather forecast we are going to have mild weather for about 24-36 hours before it starts getting colder again. We could call it a consolidation period. We are also expecting some wind and precipitation today.
Evening update: It has been a mild day, temperatures between -1 Celsius and +1 Celsius and some snow and sleet throughout the day. We ended up using universal klister, which turned out to be the best choice.
At the moment the snow is fairly wet and it will possibly freeze overnight. We are looking forward to colder temperatures and some fresh snow on top of this great solid base.

Sunday

-1 Celsius and difficult to wax the skis. -2 Celsius after lunch, that was enough to make perfect conditions.
Robert arrives tomorrow :-)

The first few days of January 2014:

The first few days of January 2014: -2 to -3 Celsius, snow, some wind. Snow on the trees, almost winterwonderland. Good conditions for skiing.

Happy new year!

Happy new year, everybody!
We have had a Christmas with av bit of everything; sun, snow, wind, low and high temperatures (from -14 to +1). Most of the time the snowconditions have been good, and we have got lots of fresh snow, but some days with temperatures around zero, has made waxing difficult. We hope for temperatures below zero in January!