What Like? and welcome to edition 1 of Mchardy,s Nog Blog. Will be back-dating a few weekends so watch out for that.
Last weekend was Hemsedal. A mere 14.5 hr drive to get there, might be a problem if your soft, but no problemo for the likes of me. My back was not broken in two by the end of that , no way. Wasnt meant to take that long of course, but we end ed up taking a small 7 hour detour, due to the road over the Hardangervidda being shut cos of drifting snow. Modley beat that. Oh yeah, and we also got to drive thru the worlds longest tunnel - 25 Km (see photos), and almost drove through Lillehammer, where they once had some Olympics. Anyways, here is a pretty picture of a fjord we drove around, and under, and through.
Anyways, it all kicked off once we got there, Mia The kayak Instructor (more later), had us doing all sorts of adventures, see Mchardskis abortive 180 attempt above left. Below is Mia and some fat git lagging beehind, climbing up to the top of the mountain after the lifts shut cus of high winds. come an ava go if ya think yer ard enurff.
Anyways, we got down just in time for the pub (see left), the highest mountain in the background is the one we justwalked up and skied down. 2hrs up, 20 minutes down.
I ve always loved jugs.
of beer.
Who likes my swanky new jacket? does anybody need a ski jacket? i have about 5 going spare. i might have a jumble sale.
We set off home at 4 pm Sunday, arriving in Stavanger 3am Monday, after losing 2.5 hrs 'cos of a small issue with 'head gaskets' in Dougal car. Apparently they are essential for proper functioning. The breakdown company gave us a Suzuki Grand Vitara loser cruiser, which i managed to drive 180 km in 2 hours, which on Noggie roads is quite an achievement. here is a piccy of Dougals car being dragged off to the scrappy.
Anyways, thats enough off that, watch out for some videos once i figure out how to do that, to get a taste of the action. Also, go back to early january to find out about the Swedish girls, a hot tub and a snow drift.
ps . new Year Ski team: i thought Hemsedal could be an option for next year: i can get the cabin which sleeps 10, for 15 quid a night for the whole cabin!, flights to Oslo are not too dear, and there is a bus from the airport. I could take my van as a set of wheels. So we have no car or accomodation costs - that would save us about 2 Grand compared to Morzine. The only downside is that the resort is smaller than what everyone is used too, its not ridiculsy small though. Not sure what the early season snow record is either. Could be one to consider though.
What Like? and welcome to edition 1 of Mchardy,s Nog Blog. Will be back-dating a few weekends so watch out for that.
Last weekend was Hemsedal. A mere 14.5 hr drive to get there, might be a problem if your soft, but no problemo for the likes of me. My back was not broken in two by the end of that , no way. Wasnt meant to take that long of course, but we end ed up taking a small 7 hour detour, due to the road over the Hardangervidda being shut cos of drifting snow. Modley beat that. Oh yeah, and we also got to drive thru the worlds longest tunnel - 25 Km (see photos), and almost drove through Lillehammer, where they once had some Olympics. Anyways, here is a pretty picture of a fjord we drove around, and under, and through.
Anyways, it all kicked off once we got there, Mia The kayak Instructor (more later), had us doing all sorts of adventures, see Mchardskis abortive 180 attempt above left. Below is Mia and some fat git lagging beehind, climbing up to the top of the mountain after the lifts shut cus of high winds. come an ava go if ya think yer ard enurff.
Anyways, we got down just in time for the pub (see left), the highest mountain in the background is the one we justwalked up and skied down. 2hrs up, 20 minutes down.
I ve always loved jugs.
of beer.
Who likes my swanky new jacket? does anybody need a ski jacket? i have about 5 going spare. i might have a jumble sale.
We set off home at 4 pm Sunday, arriving in Stavanger 3am Monday, after losing 2.5 hrs 'cos of a small issue with 'head gaskets' in Dougal car. Apparently they are essential for proper functioning. The breakdown company gave us a Suzuki Grand Vitara loser cruiser, which i managed to drive 180 km in 2 hours, which on Noggie roads is quite an achievement. here is a piccy of Dougals car being dragged off to the scrappy.
Anyways, thats enough off that, watch out for some videos once i figure out how to do that, to get a taste of the action. Also, go back to early january to find out about the Swedish girls, a hot tub and a snow drift.
ps . new Year Ski team: i thought Hemsedal could be an option for next year: i can get the cabin which sleeps 10, for 15 quid a night for the whole cabin!, flights to Oslo are not too dear, and there is a bus from the airport. I could take my van as a set of wheels. So we have no car or accomodation costs - that would save us about 2 Grand compared to Morzine. The only downside is that the resort is smaller than what everyone is used too, its not ridiculsy small though. Not sure what the early season snow record is either. Could be one to consider though.
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