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Polar slow cross-country skiing

A bɔra kɛnɛ kan: 27.01.2024

Last night it stormed and snowed. In the morning our car is covered in snow and Wilfried has a lot to shovel. Thank God there are huge clearing machines here - the excavator clears the road to our car in the morning.

The weather isn't particularly cold and the trails are groomed, so we decide to go cross-country skiing. The first attempts to glide show: Wow, that's slow and laborious! We decide on a 10km lap and off we go! I suspect that the sports store we trust in Fehring doesn't know the extremely dry snow, which seems very strange to us, and that the wax doesn't fit. But observation of the few “followers” shows that they also struggle and are very slow. So we sneak along for the first 4km until we suddenly see two reindeer in the forest who have dug away the snow next to a tree and found what must have been meager food there.

In addition to the wonderfully snow-covered landscape and the picturesquely blown trees, a beautiful, extraordinary encounter in this absolute silence.

So after more than 4 km it turns out that the loop is actually much longer than stated in our plan... we decide to take a shortcut. A narrow path that is signposted for cross-country skiers with dogs, but not specially marked. At first, running doesn't seem that difficult, but the path turns out to be incredibly curvy and as a result the distance to our destination is actually much further than shown on the map. After more than 4 hours we reach our car pretty exhausted. It was still beautiful and very impressive!

The hot shower feels good and after dinner (couscous with vegetables), we plan tomorrow, which will take us to Inari.

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Gerhard
Guten Morgen euch beiden. Wie geht's euch denn? Wir warten auf neue, interessante Nachrichten. Ganz liebe Grüße und weiterhin gute Fahrt!!