Photo of the Week: A Three Sandwich Day
You know you are in for a great adventure – at least you had better be – when you prepare and pack three sandwiches for your ski pack. This particular sandwich making session was followed by a ski tour that kicked off around dinner time, carried us through the midnight hours and didn’t land us [...]
Photo of the Week: Crust Cruising
One of the great things about a little rainfall in the middle of February is that it sometime leads to the formation of a nice supportive crust atop the snowpack. If we’ve got a good base to work with, this can be especially fun, as the crust allows you to go nearly anywhere, and [...]
Surfing Arctic Norway
We recently stumbled upon this terrific short film about Arctic Norway – produced from a surfer’s perspective. It features some of the same mountain areas that we explored by bicycle and skis this past spring. Whether you enjoy surfing or not, we think you’ll enjoy this! – Brian and Emily
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Photo of the Week: Skiing in June – Take 2
Here’s another example of what some of us northeastern skiers are known to do in June – when the snow is gone, but our skiing stoke is not. This is another image from East Greenland’s Schweizerland Alps, captured on a remote island that is part of an Arctic archipelago anchoring the southern end of these [...]
Photo of the Week: The Arctic Alps
Vermonters Forrest Twombly, Emily Johnson and Thomas Hite, with their skiing and camping gear in tow, pedal away from their seashore camp near Djupvik, Norway en route to a ferry that will lead them to the mountains across the fjord.
NOTE: To view our other posts about Norway, click HERE.
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Water Fetching, Gaspe Style
With the intention of being back by lunch, we had left our hut with one full bottle of water a piece.
It was late March, somewhere in the western Monts Chic Chocs on Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula, not too long after sunrise. After skiing a beautiful run through a spacious spruce-fir forest into the depths of a [...]
Photo of the Week: Skiing in June
Even in the Northeast, there is usually some natural snow to ski on in the month of June, especially on Quebec’s Gaspe…and points north. For best results here in the northeast U.S., start walking toward the sheltered, higher elevations of Maine’s Katahdin or New Hampshire’s White Mountains…keep walking…and you might find a worthwhile strip of [...]
2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Norway Withdrawal
After a month of pedal-powered skiing adventure in a truly fascinating corner of the earth, we are all back home in Vermont again – safe and sound. To the wonderful country of Norway, the weather gods and the many new friends we made along the way: We cannot thank you enough for the abundance of [...]
Photo of the Week: Midnight Madness
While pedaling north last week alongside Norway’s Arctic Alps, we savored the warm and colorful rays of the evening sun before embarking on another skiing adventure in the mountains. It was approx. 10pm – just twenty minutes after snapping this photo – when we were finally heading out on our skis. The sun did [...]
2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Midnight Sun Ski Camp
(Time lapse photo of midnight sunset/sunrise – Courtesy Wikipedia)
Since our only real tent-bound day of the trip two Sundays ago on the beautiful and mountainous island of Kogen in northern Norway, we’ve lucked out with nearly 14 straight days and “nights” of mostly clear weather and excellent ski conditions. And as we roll into the [...]
2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Blue Skies and Big Mountains
(Historic photo of Skjervoy – Courtesy Wikipedia)
With virtually no convenient access to internet up here in the countryside of northern Norway, we´d like to thank readers for being patient with our updates and their sporadic nature.
When we left off last time, we had shared with you some tales about a great blizzard we [...]
2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Blizzard! in Norway
(Photo: Arctic Alps – Courtesy Wikipedia)
We knew the weather and snowpack might be a touch on the wintry side during the first part of our month-long adventure in northern Norway, so when heavy snow and near-hurricane force winds (read blizzard!) greeted us upon arrival to a mountainous peninsula way out on the coast (along Kaldfjord, [...]
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