Untrendy ski trip in Lillehammer?

I found this article from a Bergen newspaper
(Feb 7 2004) by Svein Kvalheim:

"http://bt.no/utskrift.jhtml?articleID=231324"

En utrendy skitur i OL-land - "An un-trendy ski tour in Olympic-land"

Is skiing near Lillehammer considered to be "un-trendy"? Maybe I'm
missing something here. Any Norwegian natives explain?

Or maybe it's because I like "un-trendy" activities.
If XC-sking ever became trendy in North America, I might give
it up! (there's NO danger of that happening!)

The article is a trip of nostalgia on the 10th anniversary of
the 1994 Winter Olympics. But the author's thoughts go further back,
to 1984 and boyhood family trips to Lillehammer when it was just
a small quiet town, with no idea that the eyes of the world would be on it
10 years later.

In 2004 he is climbing Nevelfjell, which is nearly 1000 m above the lake
level in Lillehammer. On the trail he meets another skier, Michael Smith
from Staffordshire, England. Michael is perhaps a rather untypical
tourist, who calls slalom skiing "cocktail skiing". His reason for
returning to Lillehammer are boyhood memories of a world Boy Scout
Jamboree in 1976.

Maybe a ski tour to the top of Nevelfjell in un-trendy but I liked it.
It's the obvious "peak to bag" in the Lillehammer area. Unfortunately the
day I got to the peak, visibility was down to about 5 km. On a clear day
they say you can see over 100 km.

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/

Thanks for the article....I was able to understand the suggestions for
Lillehammer and outlying areas.....due to my knowledge of Danish.

Mark
"David Dermott" wrote in message
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I found this article from a Bergen newspaper
(Feb 7 2004) by Svein Kvalheim:

"http://bt.no/utskrift.jhtml?articleID=231324"

En utrendy skitur i OL-land - "An un-trendy ski tour in Olympic-land"

Is skiing near Lillehammer considered to be "un-trendy"? Maybe I'm
missing something here. Any Norwegian natives explain?

Or maybe it's because I like "un-trendy" activities.
If XC-sking ever became trendy in North America, I might give
it up! (there's NO danger of that happening!)

The article is a trip of nostalgia on the 10th anniversary of
the 1994 Winter Olympics. But the author's thoughts go further back,
to 1984 and boyhood family trips to Lillehammer when it was just
a small quiet town, with no idea that the eyes of the world would be on it
10 years later.

In 2004 he is climbing Nevelfjell, which is nearly 1000 m above the lake
level in Lillehammer. On the trail he meets another skier, Michael Smith
from Staffordshire, England. Michael is perhaps a rather untypical
tourist, who calls slalom skiing "cocktail skiing". His reason for
returning to Lillehammer are boyhood memories of a world Boy Scout
Jamboree in 1976.

Maybe a ski tour to the top of Nevelfjell in un-trendy but I liked it.
It's the obvious "peak to bag" in the Lillehammer area. Unfortunately the
day I got to the peak, visibility was down to about 5 km. On a clear day
they say you can see over 100 km.

--

David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/