Today I went skiing right above the hotel near Bak mountain... After a nice muddy walk through the village, I headed onto a snowy meadow, then up a forested path just covered with big brown bear tracks (maybe a week old). Followed typical Norwegian red and white trail markers put in by Richard at the hotel up to a church and summer herding huts, then safely through some beautiful trees and onto an open peak with excellent laps on the backside to another summer farm. Continued off Bak pass into steep trees and the sides of a nice stream bed that ended in a waterfall... Had I had a rope I may have rappeled, but I wanted to ski more so I bushwhacked a bit and ended up skiing some lovely slopes of Bak and then more steep trees back to the path to the hotel. Overall an excellent day with some excited skiing. Highly recommended... BCA float weighs a bit but worth it on solo missions in the developing world like this. As usual loved my Mammut Eiswand jacket and Patagonia Houdini, the perfect spring touring combo. And growing to love the fleece lined Skida headbands for touring; the fleece is too much for Nordic but perfect for touring.
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