Nordic Skiing
The Nordic Skiing trip is an optional hut-to-hut, free-heel ski expedition in the Huldreheimen region of Norway. This eight-day course is regarded as an important transition from the required skills courses of the PDP to the culminating student-led expedition.
The journey takes place almost entirely above the tree line, through a wilderness that is only accessible by ski and snowmobile. The group will need to navigate carefully as they travel over snowy mountain passes and windswept frozen lakes. Once at the hut, chores need to be done! Snow needs to be collected in buckets (to be melted) and a fire needs to be made in the wood stove. The huts are self-catering, but have pantries full of food, which is prepared on propane stoves. For those who still have some energy, there may be an opportunity to check out the stars while on a night ski. The next morning, the hut is cleaned, the indoor wood pile stocked, and we ski to our next destination.
This course runs normally runs at the beginning of April.
