06.03 – 08.03 (Friday – Sunday)

Self organised skiing trip to Langeid

This weekend Katja, Adele, Will, Luke and I spend in Langeid. We took the bus to Langeid and walked up the hill as the snow was too bad to start skiing right away. Unfortunately even in the higher region the snow was not really good, it was too warm and the snow was sticky. But we skied to the first hut and had nice weather.

The way was really good marked so we didn’t have to do lots of navigation. We found the hut (Tjønndalen) and had a nice evening together splaying cards and eating dinner. The hut is very small and it was really comfortable.

For the second day we had planned to go to Gaukhei hut and spend the second night there. On Sunday we wanted to go 30k back to the road. But the weather was really bad on Saturday. We had a big snowstorm and a lot of fog. You weren’t able to see very far. So we decided not to make the way to Gaukhei, because we were not sure if we could do the 30k back on the next day than in these bad conditions. We planned a day tour instead and started. But the weather was so bad, that it seemed to be too dangerous to go around the mountain because we saw that some avalanches had went down. So Adele and me stayed outside, the others spent the afternoon in the cosy hut. We skied around the hut not going too far away and just played in the wind and snow. It was really hard to ski uphill against the wind, the wind was so strong it even blew us back. But going back was even more fun because even in the flat areas the wind pushed us to very high speed. So we spent the day playing outside. And we met a man who carried out wood to the DNT huts and he told us, that he wasn’t able to deliver Gaukhei with wood because of the bad weather. He said we were lucky that we didn’t go there because you couldn’t see anything behind this area. So we were very happy with our decision. It is really important to adjust the plans to the conditions and to let go a originally good plan. I was really sad that we didn’t do the 30ks because I felt this would have been a good practice for the snow hole trip. But sometimes you can’t change it.

On Sunday morning the area looked completely different. A lot of the snow melted over night and we saw a stream right in front of the hut that hasn’t been visible the other two days. By going back we decided to go around the lake because we weren’t sure if the ice was still strong enough. We had a great day and skied back under the rainbow.