End of January and beginning of February - unsteady weather conditions

When I went to the place on the fjord that I often like to visit, the storm got especially strong on my way back.
I'm curious how it will go on. At the moment, I am not sure which season it feels like: autumn, winter or spring?

The 4th of February it was extremely stormy.


February started with more sunshine but unfortunately still nearly no further snow.


That is something, which is also very typical for Norway, as I believe: the lichens on the branches of trees.


After the skiing, I walked a bit around and saw some traces from the storms and winds of the last time.


On sunday, a Dutch and me left to explore the tracks around Dragvoll campus.
I am amazed when I see the Norwegians on a fly-past...

The 29th and the 30th of January, we had goodluck that the snow had returned. So we could use the weekend for skiing. On saturday, a Danish, who had been living in Australia for 12 years and me, we went to Bymarka. This is a great area west of Trondheim where the conditions are perfect for skiing and hiking. The batteries from my camera were low. But maybe I can add some pictures that my companion made.

We took samples on three different rivers, one wastewater treatment plant (before and after treatment) and a paper factory.

When we went for sampling prior to the Environmental Chemistry laboratory analyses, the weather conditions were still relatively warm so that the nice snow continued transforming into ice...
When the streets and paths look like this, then spikes are a blessing - no matter if you have them on your bike or underneath your shoes.

14.-16.1. - Cabin trip to Øvensenget koie

And that was our weekend. ;-)


In winter, many people put a bunch of crops in front of their door to feed the birds.



Thick layers of snow all around...


Before we went back to Trondheim, we made a stop in Røros, a small and old copper mining town.

The area around is quite open so that tracks are quickly snowed in when the wind is strong. Fortunately, the weather was quite calm on sunday.



On our way back on sunday we met nearly nobody.
However, suddenly this dog slegde came across. Nice to watch. :-)


After having it digged out. ;-)

Another special feature was the toilet. Do you see it?


Everybody of us joined the sitting in the sauna-jumping and rolling in the snow mix. My first real sauna experience - great!

Some meters away from the cabin, we had a cosy sauna that we could use.
On saturday night it became very cold and stormy so that we thankfully utilized this nice offer.



And that is the cabin after we had cleaned it before leaving it on sunday.

That's the cabin's door. I liked the wood carving.






The next day we went around with the skis.

On friday night we went by car to the area close to the cabin. It was very cold that day with about -20°C as the thermometer from the car told us.
After having parked the car on a parking place we, i.e. 9 people from France, Norway, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands and Denmark/ Great Britain went by ski to the cabin. Even if it was very close, it took us several hours to reach it. We had a GPS with the cabin's coordinates stored in it. But it does not tell how the way looks like...
And to pass snowy bushlands or forests at night is not that ideal...
But finally we reached it. And the fact that we had managed this together had us unified to a good team. :-)
After having molten a lot of snow on the stove and cooked for a long while, we could eat dinner at about 3 a.m.

January - back to Norway

I love the afternoon sunlight. It makes the snow glitter so nicely.



But inside, the light is very bright. Dragvoll campus is really luxurious.

In the mornings it is still very dark - this photo was taken between 8 and 9.

Way back home.



Arrived at the right time to see this beautiful scenery.

Back in Trondheim, I used the nice weather to cycle down to the sea.

Many different positions for sleeping...

And there were even much more. Since it was not that comfortable, I got up rather early...

My first night at Prague airport. It was quite save - many guards walking aroung throughout the whole night. What you see here, is my sleeping place and the people sleeping next to me.