Switzerland

Last week me and Martin visited Sigrid and Sindre in Switzerland. Also Eskild was visiting at the same time. Lot of fun, its still a beautiful country! We got time to ski a bit, boulder a little and visit my host family and some friends from my exchange year in high school. First day we went to Arosa, nice skiing, bad weather.. Second day, me, Sigrid and Martin went ski touring with Fabienne and some of her friends.

Fabienne and some swiss mountains.

Martin, lots of mountains and snow. So much snow actually, that the tour got a bit shorter than planned. But still fun!

Me

The day after that we went to Tessin to boulder a little. We got a lot of time on swiss trains, here illustrated by Eskild, and a few early morings at Zürich main station. (sunday moring around 7 there is lot of people with skis and snowboards there).
Eskild telling what he just did.

Martin
Me having trouble getting of the ground....


After a day hanging in Zürich checking out the sport shops and indoor climbing there, me and Martin went to Zermatt while Esklid took of in the direction of Sardinia to climb. First day was snow and mist... Here should it be a beautiful view....



Me and Matterhorn! Second day in Zermatt

Great English translation on the train to the top. Me and Martin has a competition who will first manage to publish a paper with a sentece with "In the view of the possibility.."

Martin

Inga Pudderludder in Zermatt :)

On the top of Kleinmatterhorn, 3840 m (i think..)



Zermatt do not allow cars up, however they have these cute little taxies and busses looking like Postman Pat cars :) And all have ski holders, and so does all the bikes we saw.

The castle in Lenzburg, where my host family from I was in exchange in high school lives.


Look, a castle!

Me and my host sister Franciska.

Martin fixing my host mothers lamp :)

Me and my friend Marketa from I was in exchange. Really cool to see her again too!

Me and little sister Sigrid, ski tour last Sunday.

Fabienne and me on the top. Notice my cool goggles! I stole them from Martin who had them as a child in the 80 :) I think they look way cooler on me!

New appartment

A little update of my life: I bought an appartment!! :) At Vestlia, Nardo. Pictures will come when I move in after easter! I am really looking forward to it!

Sleepingbag testing in the cold

This weekend me and Martin went to Dronningkrona to ski. We went there in the evening and slept over in tent to try out my new sleepingbag. However, it ended up being a lot colder than we thought.... We woke up in the morning and met some people from the climbing club, they told us that it was -23C and than we understood why we where so cold trying to take the tent down...

Full moon in the evening!

My sleeingbag really was warm and nice! :)

Going up

Here, after all the uphills, the other people we met turned around because it was getting late and the rest is just quite flat, Martin however insisted on reaching the top...

Martin taking of the skins in the sunset on the top :)

Me skiing down. The snow conditions and weather was absolutly beautyfull! (except the cold...)

Snowkiting in Hessdalen, or trying to...

This weekend we went to Maris cabin in Hessdalen to go snowkiteing. Not to much wind, but otherwise awsome!

Hessdalen is the area in Norway with the most UFOs, here is one.


We also met an ailien.

We had do drag 6 kites on slegdes 5 km into the cabin, we started quite late in the evening from the parking, and used about 3.5 hours on a walk that normally is about 1 - 1.5 hour... Reason: We got completly lost just by the cabin, and managed to be within 100m of it several times without finding it. In the end we saw another cabin with light in, and they helped us by showing the way with their snowmobile :)

When we got to the cabin at 2.30 am it was kind of cold there....

Mari with her nice pink kite
Mari trying to get up her kite, Ingrid helping. It did not work very well, since it was very little wind, and when it came it was gusty and constantly changing directions...

Martin with the kite, Lars teaching.

Ingrid

Next day we just took the skies to hike a little. Lars is efficient and brush his theets while walking...
On the to of Rauhøgda (I think was the name). Mari, Martin, Lars and Ingrid.


Not very good conditions down...

Martin and me on the top.

Martin trying to telemark on touring skies down. Didn't work that well :)

Girl ski trip to Oppdal

This weekand all the old girls from the NTNUI orienteering group went to Oppdal to go skiing and to afterski :) We also met up with Mette and Idun. Mette tried to film while we both were skiing me with her new camera that takes a lot of pictures after each other. Got kind of funny films :) and since I promised to be a better blogger I'll post them here!

New Year trip to Eresfjorden

I know I have been horrible blogging lately, but finaly at least I am posting something again. I promise to get bettter again! :)

Also this new year we went to Eresfjorden to go skiing. It was not the best conditions, but we got an awsome trip to Kirketaket and Litj-Skjorta, and some really nice days.

Martin just got new skis :)


Vibeke on Kirketaket


Mari on Kirketaket


Vibeke, Kristin, Mari, Marianne and Martin.

Me and Maritn on the top of Kirketaket


On the way up to Kirketaket


Me and Skjorta


Vibeke on the way up to Litj-Skjorta

Testing of carabiners

One evening in november we went to the lab and tested some of the climbing clubs old steel carabiners. All of them had been hanging at DragWall for a year and all except the ref. one had also been hanging outdoor in Hell for a summer. The results was that the metal wasn't damaged at all, but the fabric between obviously got worn out. Espessially the quick links was extremly solid. We also tried dropping a couple of biners (3&4) 7 floors in the science building to see if it had any effect, it didnt...

Results, in kN.


Fredrik. "What the ..., the biner broke!"



Hans the crazy basejumpin fracture researcher helped us.


Before
After


Test setup, Martin, me and Fredrik.


Hans dropping a biner 7 floors in the science building.