Winter Vacation

Well todays the day, last day in the winter vacation.  I was lucky enough to go see LMFAO in concert with my cousin Jørgen and some of his friends in Oslo city last weekend (the beginning of my vacation) which was great and I really enjoyed!  For those of you who dont know, LMFAO is a popular music group amoung people my age.  I was in Oslo for 3 days, the day before the concert, the day of and then left the day after.  It was almost worth it just going to Oslo because I had never been before so it was cool to just walk around and see what there Oslo had to show.  I then spent the rest of the week here with my grandparents in Askøy doing fitting in some nights out with friends and such as well.  But now its time to get back to school!  Actually though.. I will only be in school tomorrow because Wednesday I leave for Geilo to go work\party at a winter festival  (watch the youtube video on their site so see what its about).  The video is in Norwegian just like the rest of the site so for all you English speaking\reading people this is a 4 day long festival where there will be snowboard\ski\snowmobile jumping, live performances and after parties.  Sounds like a lot of fun rite!  Cant wait!

Super Hut

    Im getting pretty good at these late posts I know but Im slowly catching up.  Last Wednesday was the 8th and Frisport took a trip to Myrkdalen to go skiing/snowboarding.  The weather was beautiful, all sun, no clouds, and no wind.  You couldnt have asked for a better day.  We were supposed to have some lessons on avalanche safety that day but the weather was so good that Arill decided we should just enjoy the day and ski and we did just that.  The weather was so good actually that me and two other guys from frisport went shirtless one run!  We stayed the whole day until closing, riding through endless amounts of powder.  And after the long day of snowboarding we drove maybe 5 minutes to a hut that Frisport had rented and it was huge.  There must have been 20 beds and 3 baths.  I have some pictures that I took along with a walk-through video of the place.  The only problem is that it was a little dark so the pictures came out a bit blurry but the video should be fine.
    We spent the next day doing some lessons on avalanche safety because the weather was not so good, a little wind and lots of clouds.
 

    Today we are heading out for an overnight trip where we will be sleeping in tents, in the snow. Hope its not too cold out!

Myrkdalen 2012.

February 1st

On February 1st Frisport took its first "top tour" trip.  I dont really know the technical term for what we did so Im just going to refer to it as top touring from now on.  Top touring is basically hiking up a mountain with skies.  Now normally if you tried to hike up a mountain covered in snow with skis on you wouldnt get anywhere because you would just slide backwards however, there is a carpet like sleeve that we attach to the bottom of the skies to keep us from sliding back.  This carpet like sleeve allows the ski to move forward but not backwards and after waking with them for a but you actually get quiet used to it.

I never really skied with a backpack on before I came into Frisport but now I hardly ride without one.  Water, food, a shovel, and maybe a few other things are always with me.  Ohh and this is going somewhere just wait.  So the reason Im telling you this is because you cant ride down hill very effectively with the sleeve like thing that goes under the skies for top touring, so we keep them in out backpacks until we get to where we start.  We ended up taking the lift to get as high as we could and then put the sleeve like things that go on the bottom of the skis on and started the hike.  Now, I did say that you get quiet used to hiking after a bit but, that first bit is hell I have to admit.  My legs were not used to that kind of work!  The whole trip took about 2 and a half hours.. I think.  Im actually not that sure but If I had to guess I would say that.  We got to the top, had some lunch and then skied down.  And I bet some of you are wondering how long it took to get down, well no more than 15 minutes but let me tell you it was so worth it!

February 1, 2012