Sun and mountains

Today we woke up bright and early at 2:00 am (EST). We then proceeded to wander aimlessly around Trondheim in vans, hopelessly looking for a way out. Then, we found a tunnel! And it went through a mountain! And two hours later we ended up in a little town called Meråker.

            It took us a while to find a good ski area. After visiting the Meråker school and receiving directions to a good place we headed off. It was very cold, as most of Norway is, but it was surprisingly light and we headed off on the trails. We skied in wonderful sunlight through the beautiful Norwegian mountains. The trails were well groomed and rolling which was a nice change of pace compared to Granåsen, which has very steep uphills and downhills. We headed off toward the mountains and as we got close we decided to summit the mountain closest to us!! After a beautiful trek to the top we were rewarded with gorgeous 360 degree views against a blue bird sky. We saw another peak to the right at the top and proceeded to summit that as well. We were rewarded for our efforts with a ripping descent down the mountain and with a beautiful ski back to the vans on the groomed trails.

Photo stolen shamelessly from Julia's Facebook page!

Hamish, vying for “likes,” collected a plethora of photographs under which he planned post captions of “#Sun” and “#Norway.” Keegan, the ultimate training machine, refused to climb the mountain and instead double poled intervals around the base. Cal, the resident expert on downhill skiing, was shamelessly beaten down the mountain by his hopeless crush, Heidi. Haakon, lacking much skill, fell several times on his trek off the peak. And Evan, disappointed that he forgot his instagramming device, was awed by the view but was sorry that he would not be able to post captions of “#Sun” and “#Norway” under his own pictures. Overall it was a great day and fun was had by all.