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Nordic Tours 1:

Rondane Hut-to-hut: Nordic hut-to hut touring – and develop your skills
Taivalkoski: hut-to-hut touring in Finland with husky support
Hardanger Vidda Venture: relaxed hut-to-hut touring with great huts
Jotunheim – The North-West Passage: classic Nordic traverse of the Jotunheim
Skei and Espedalen: two centres for combined skills development and hut-to-hut touring

See Nordic Tours 2 for more Nordic skiing holidays and tours:
Hardanger Crossing, Skarvheimen Traverse, Snohetta & Dovrefjell, Trollheimen Triangular and The King’s Trail
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NORWAY – Rondane Hut-to-hut    

Nordic Hut-to-hut Tours: develop your Nordic skiing on a hut-to-hut tour in Norway.

LEVEL: INTRODUCTORY
A week for those new to Nordic skiing and wish to start of as they mean to carry on – hut-to-hut touring!
This week is fully described on the Nordic Courses pages – please click here for full details.

Approaching Rondablikk, Day 5 of the tour; the Rondane Mountains beyond.
Photo: Stefan Janik/Lisa King
dossier request

  Rondane ski tour
   
FINLAND – Taivalkoski: Husky Tour (HT)    

Nordic Hut-to-hut Tours: a unique and delightful tour with husky support amongst the frozen forests and 'fells' of Finland.

LEVEL: INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE
A Nordic ski touring holiday with a hotel based ‘warm-up’ day to start, followed by five days exploring the winter landscapes of central Finland.
A North to South traverse finishing at the Iso-Syote National Park, gliding through silent forests, crossing frozen lakes and swamps and skirting the rounded ‘fells’ characteristic of this area.
The itinerary includes four days of hut-to-hut touring and two days of hotel/hut-based day tours; typical daily distances are 20-25 kms. Ascents and descents are small. Each two persons will have a husky and pulk for carrying personal equipment and food; each person will only need to carry a small rucksack.
Accommodation is in a 3* hotel for two nights and in privately-run forest lodges and cabins for five nights – warm, comfortable, hot showers and saunas, convivial company; great environments for 'mellowing out' after a few hours skiing! Everyone will be helping with domestic chores/food preparation at the cabins.

COSTS INCLUDE:
7 nights half board (dinner, B&B and packed lunches) on twin/multi share basis, return transfer between Kuusamo airport and touring area, additional local bus transfers at either end of the tour, all coaching/leadership.
Flights from UK not included.

DATES & COSTS
02/03/08 – 09/03/08 £795
Return transfer from Oulu airport £35 extra
dossier request

  Ski touring hut in Finland

husky team

Nordic touring in Finland

Top: One of the overnight cabins on the tour
Middle: Husky dog sled support.
Bottom: Silent frozen forests, on skis and with huskies – typical Finnish hut-to-hut touring.

Photos Barbara Willen
     
   
NORWAY – Hardanger: Vidda Venture (VV)    

Nordic Ski Touring: a relaxed stride and glide through a wild and beautiful landscape.

LEVEL: INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE

A Nordic ski tour for those who have some hut-to-hut experience (e.g. the Skarvheimen Traverse), but who are not ready (or inclined?) to ski the peaks and are looking for a relaxed Nordic touring week. Also suitable as a first hut-to-hut tour for those with suitable technique and experience.
Starting just south of Geilo, the itinerary links several very comfortable lodges on the Northern part of the Hardangervidda (plateau), finishing at Haugastol for the train home – a quintessential Norwegian experience! The plateau is open and rolling with good views to the Hardanger Icecap to the West and the Hallingskarvet ridge to the North.
Daily distances 12–19 kms,; daily ascents 2 – 300 m. Technically straightforward skiing and rucksacks should be reasonably light.
Accommodation in staffed DNT or privately-run mountain lodges – warm, comfortable, hot showers, convivial company; great environments for 'mellowing out' after a few hours skiing! One night may be at a 'self-service' hut.

Top: Setting off from a lodge near Geilo.
Middle: Space! Near Kjeldebu, Day 6.

Bottom: On the plateau near Kraekkja.
Photos: John Eames
  Hardanger nordic ski tour

Hardanger cross country skiing

     
COSTS INCLUDE:
7 nights half board (dinner, B&B and packed lunches) on twin/multi share basis, return rail travel between Oslo city and touring area, additional local bus transfers at either end of the tour, DNT membership, all coaching/leadership. Flights from UK and airport – Oslo transfers not included.
  DATES & COSTS
09/03/08 – 16/03/08 £815
dossier request
   
NORWAY – Jotunheim: The North-West Passage (NWP)

Nordic Tours: our classic and unique traverse with superb high pass and peak days.

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED

A traverse of the Western Jotunheim and then finding an intriguing and beautiful route to the North-West, to very quiet, remote lodges and 'seaters'.
We will be seeking un-marked or rarely used routes as much as possible, linking quiet valleys, crossing high passes & traversing small glaciers.
We should have two or three days/part days free for peaks or local day tours, including on the final day (where ‘powder’ often lies in the forests!)
An ideal tour for those who have already 'done' other classic Norwegian tours, are confident travelling (up and down!) over mountainous terrain and are looking for the new and the adventurous!
On travelling days expect distances of 12–26 kms and ascents of up to 800 m on the peak/high pass crossing days.
Accommodation at DNT staffed and 'self-service' mountain lodges – so your sack never gets too heavy! Two nights in an Oslo hotel.

COSTS INCLUDE:
7 nights half board (dinner, B&B and packed lunches) and 2 nights B&B, all on twin/multi share basis, bus travel between Oslo and touring area, DNT membership, all coaching/leadership.
Flights from UK and airport transfers to/from Oslo city not included.

DATES & COSTS
08/03/08 – 17/03/08 £935
dossier request

Top: On the way from Olavsbu to Leirvassbu.
Photo: Tom Higgs
Middle: The descent to Sota – who could ask for more!
Photo: Stefan Janik
Bottom: 'Powder puppies' in the Jotunheim.
Photo: John Eames

 

Sota ski decent

Norway nordic ski tour
   
NORWAY – Skei and Espedalen    

Nordic Ski Touring: 'Pistes, Trails and Tours'.

LEVEL: INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE

A superb Norwegian Nordic ski 'sampler' – resort skiing and hut-to-hut Nordic touring over the Easter break. For those wishing comprehensive technical input and a first experience of hut-to-hut touring with professional coaching and leadership.
This trip is described in full on the Nordic Courses pages – please click here for full details.

Typical Nordic skiing on the Norwegian plateaux, a great environment
for learning to do it better!
Photo: Graham Hammond
  Geilo, Nordic ski touring
   
     

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