Sunday, 28 April 2013

Mekicevica's Crew North of the Arctic Circle. 1. Travelling to Lønsstua.

An old idea of ours was to do a hut-to-hut ski tour in Northern Norway. This year, with the Winter lingering in West Europe and forcing a late start of the sailing season, gave us the perfect opportunity. Our goal was Saltfjell, just North of the Artic Circle.
The journey From home to Lønsdal, our starting point, was a long one: over 27 ours, most of them within Norway. It is a big country!
First a flight to Oslo, than more than six hours by train to Trondheim where we had time for dinner at burger joint, and finally about eight hours on the night train, alighting at the small village of Lønsdal.
The Bodø touring club has a cabin just a few hundred meters from the Lønsdal train station, and that was our immediate destination to have breakfast and change into ski touring gear.
At the cabin we were greeted by Simon, a Brit on the last day of a three week tour and very eager to share the food he had left. We reciprocated his generosity with the latest issue of The Economist, for which he was very grateful.