new ski tunnel, 1400meters

this time in Norway, not far away from the Swedish one in Torsby.
http://www.langrenn.com/skandinavias...3648-1743.html

If built, it will be located between Oslo and Lillehammer.

On Oct 11, 6:37 pm, wrote:
this time in Norway, not far away from the Swedish one in Torsby.http://www.langrenn.com/skandinavias...3648-1743.html

If built, it will be located between Oslo and Lillehammer.

There is talk about one in Holmestrand in Vestfold too. They would use
about 1.7km of a car tunnel that is being retired. Part of the
existing tunnel is to be used for a railway expansion, and the road
part is to be abandoned as I understand it, and thus is available for
skiing. A deep mountain tunnel like that I beileve wouldn't take too
much work to get operational. I hope it happens (soon).

Joseph

wrote:
On Oct 11, 6:37 pm, wrote:
this time in Norway, not far away from the Swedish one in Torsby.http://www.langrenn.com/skandinavias...3648-1743.html

If built, it will be located between Oslo and Lillehammer.

There is talk about one in Holmestrand in Vestfold too. They would use
about 1.7km of a car tunnel that is being retired. Part of the
existing tunnel is to be used for a railway expansion, and the road
part is to be abandoned as I understand it, and thus is available for
skiing. A deep mountain tunnel like that I beileve wouldn't take too
much work to get operational. I hope it happens (soon).

That's an excellent idea!

With the tunnel having about 70 m of rock above it, it shouldn't need
any form of isolation at all, beyond a pair of doors at each end. :-)

Terje

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On Oct 18, 4:04 pm, Terje Mathisen
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wrote:
On Oct 11, 6:37 pm, wrote:
this time in Norway, not far away from the Swedish one in Torsby.http://www.langrenn.com/skandinavias...3648-1743.html

If built, it will be located between Oslo and Lillehammer.

There is talk about one in Holmestrand in Vestfold too. They would use
about 1.7km of a car tunnel that is being retired. Part of the
existing tunnel is to be used for a railway expansion, and the road
part is to be abandoned as I understand it, and thus is available for
skiing. A deep mountain tunnel like that I beileve wouldn't take too
much work to get operational. I hope it happens (soon).

That's an excellent idea!

With the tunnel having about 70 m of rock above it, it shouldn't need
any form of isolation at all, beyond a pair of doors at each end. :-)

Terje

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"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

It would only need one set of doors! The other end is going to be
sealed off where they reroute the train.

Skiing in tunnels might actually be fun. A few weeks ago they had an
"open day" at a new 1.3km tunnel in Tønsberg that will go into service
soon. They invited folks to come walk/ski/ride through the tunnel. And
to have waffels made on a huge waffle-iron made from a disused man-
hole cover! I roller skied up and down several times. It was much
darker than a ski tunnel would be, but it was pleasant enough.

Joseph

Holmestrand looks good.

According to SkiFed there are 17 places than plan for ski tunnel:
http://www.skiforbundet.no/t2_gren.a...3&x=1&a=188417