May 16
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 last several days of our trip this week, …
May 07
(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 …
May 03
It hasn’t been quite this deep up here in northern Norway recently, but the fresh snow we picked up during the recent blizzard that welcomed us here had us dreaming of the many great days that Old Man Winter treated us to this past season in the northeast.
May 01
(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 …
Apr 24
After catching up on some much needed sleep last night, we ate a very late breakfast before setting our sights for Tromso’s iconic local mountain – Tromsdaltinden – which is featured in the photo below. Looming large approx. 4000′ above this Arctic island town, Tromsdaltinden was impossible to resist. And at the crack of 2:30pm …
