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Best place in Norway

  • 11-11-2007 3:48pm
    #1
    missyteabags
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    Hi, has anyone been alpine skiing in norway before and if so where and what were your opinions. Going to norway the week before xmas and would love to get some skiing in (intermediate/advanced level), but can't decide between hemsedal and lillehammer???? Any suggestions?


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  • #2
    mcgratheoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭mcgratheoin


    missyteabags wrote: »
    Any suggestions?

    Hemsedal Hemsedal Hemsedal!!!

    It's higher, so there's usually better snow and the intermediate - advanced stuff is much better. There's good tree skiing and above the treeline there are loads of safe places in between pistes to try out your powder skills. Hafjell has a few reds and mainly blues, Hemsedal has mainly reds and blacks - although be warned that the red runs are a bit easier than the red in the Alps.

    Having said that, there are a couple of ungroomed double diamond runs in Hemsedal that are challenging to say the least. Take a left off the top of the main 8 seater chair lift and you'll find them by follwing the trail and keeping to the right.
    If there has been a good fall of powder then there's a fantastic bowl that fills up with stunning snow. It's about a 10 minute walk, but it's well worth it! Go up the lift to the right of the resort as you look up at it - you'll need to go up the main chair lift and ski across to it. It's up to the Rogjin area I think. The 3-man lift goes up to the top of two pistes that you'll see on your left as you go up. Further left, you'll see a big bowl that empties out onto one of the pistes. At the top of the lift, turn 90 degrees to your left and head up towards the back of the bowl. You can usually just follow the tracks in the snow. Depending on how tired you are, and the tracks already laid, you just walk around the top of the bowl and drop in whenever you feel like it. No cornices, no gullies, just a big bowl of powder.
    Another good off-piste run is to take the main chairlift up, and just ski right back down underneath it - one or two rocky bits but in good snow it's a blast.

    Have fun!


  • #3
    koheim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭koheim


    Check out this web site; http://www.skiinfo.no/?CSL=en
    You will find everything you need there, also updated with snow reports every morning (inkluding all Norwegian ski resorts, but also quite a few down in Europe as well).
    Hemsedal and Lillehammer are 2 very different skiresorts;
    Hemsedal is a proper resort and you go there to ski and party. I have been only once and was not that impressed, but it depends what you are after. I went to college in Lillehammer and spent the best of 3 years up in Hafjell and Kvitfjell. The runs are not as steep and challenging, but if they where good enough for the Olympics...

    If you do not have to make a decition yet, wait till you see where the snow are. Let the snow report decide..

    Best skiing in Norway (by a mile) would be Oppdal, 5 hours by train from Oslo. Check out oppdal.com


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