Tuesday, 26 February 2008
The only decent day in Roldal (so far) this year
Even by roldals exceptionally high standards of early season shitness, this season is legendary. Out of four days attempted skiing, have managed 1 day + 2hrs. It basically has not stopped snowing all January, meaning the lifts are constantly shut due to zero vis and high wind. Anyways, here is the only good day.
Morning: Mr H. Bartlema cleaning even more snow off the car.
Roldal teases us with her charms, just before the cloud turns up again
Monica teases us with her charms, just before....
At end of day i stuck keys in ignition of my car and shut the door while i walked round to the back door to take of my boots, and the bloody central locking decided to lock the whole bloody van all by itself. When the NAF guy turned up he said that VW T vans always do it and he,s had it loads of times. offically not my fault then. phew. Anyway, the van got a ride on the back of a big truck all the way to the garage (40km) a where the guy busted in in 3 minutes using some plastic wedges.
two weeks before i lost my car keys but didnt realise til the next day. eventually found them, under 3inches of snow, in the garden of the pub in roldal. 10 000 000 to 1 chance. I new my luck had changed on 23rd dec when i turned up 20 minute slate for the last train from dyce to Sneck and still made the train, then 2 minute slater the conductor walked right past me without making me buy a ticket, sweeet. beats last year, which was cursed (6-month driving ban, 800 quid speeding fine, drove my bike in2 an OAP's brand new car causing 500 quid of damage, crashed into a deer, killed it, and caused 4.5 grand damage, never met any girls plus, Dougal; broke his leg, dropped his phone into a fjord twice, broke his car twice)
Bartlema about to lose 100 kr at Poker:-)
Morning: Mr H. Bartlema cleaning even more snow off the car.
Roldal teases us with her charms, just before the cloud turns up again
Monica teases us with her charms, just before....
At end of day i stuck keys in ignition of my car and shut the door while i walked round to the back door to take of my boots, and the bloody central locking decided to lock the whole bloody van all by itself. When the NAF guy turned up he said that VW T vans always do it and he,s had it loads of times. offically not my fault then. phew. Anyway, the van got a ride on the back of a big truck all the way to the garage (40km) a where the guy busted in in 3 minutes using some plastic wedges.
two weeks before i lost my car keys but didnt realise til the next day. eventually found them, under 3inches of snow, in the garden of the pub in roldal. 10 000 000 to 1 chance. I new my luck had changed on 23rd dec when i turned up 20 minute slate for the last train from dyce to Sneck and still made the train, then 2 minute slater the conductor walked right past me without making me buy a ticket, sweeet. beats last year, which was cursed (6-month driving ban, 800 quid speeding fine, drove my bike in2 an OAP's brand new car causing 500 quid of damage, crashed into a deer, killed it, and caused 4.5 grand damage, never met any girls plus, Dougal; broke his leg, dropped his phone into a fjord twice, broke his car twice)
Bartlema about to lose 100 kr at Poker:-)
Svenske Snow
After several weeks of zero vis and driving wind, it was decided to entake a small trip to sweden (flight to Trondheim and driveing to Are - where world cup was in '07) in search of some better weather, which we got. We also discovered thats Swedes are posher that Norgees and like to dress up at night. which we never.
Match stats so far: Ski days 9, distance flown: about 1600 km distance driven: er, about 2000km, tanks of diesel: 2, lost car keys 1, flat battery: 1, NAF call outs: 2, ski "resorts": 4, post 3am returns: 1.
Swedish border
Nightskiing
Sunrise @ 0930 hrs
Svenske Moose
Snow on our hire car
Classic pose mate!
Dougal on our hire car
Match stats so far: Ski days 9, distance flown: about 1600 km distance driven: er, about 2000km, tanks of diesel: 2, lost car keys 1, flat battery: 1, NAF call outs: 2, ski "resorts": 4, post 3am returns: 1.
Swedish border
Nightskiing
Sunrise @ 0930 hrs
Svenske Moose
Snow on our hire car
Classic pose mate!
Dougal on our hire car
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
The begynnelsen: Hemsedal '08: Beaver in Norske
Thats it, its the 3rd of january folks, and while all u BI feckers are nursing hangovers the size of pilots stiffy whilst he's upside down, me and Beaver were getting on with the job at hand. Geta load of this. 
Thats Al & Monica on the ferry North from stavanger at 7 am on 3rd Jan. Not bad. Yup, this was another EPIC Hemsedal trip. its miles. Chris could get to the alps quicker.
But he cannae stan up straight cannae?
Lunch time:-)
Pretty fjord going dark, about 3pm, 7 hrs in2 the drive
Next is a wee Vid of us Xing The Hardangervidda- the largest upland area of europe. It is like driving over top of the Cairngorms. You arnt allowed to drive alone, you have to wait for the snowplows and drive in a convoy. when we started the crossing, we were behind some lorries that could not get up the hill, that was scary. Bevre was driving, he handlet it well, and did not use the brakes all the way over.
Didnt seem to get many ski-photos! But, it snowed, a lot.
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Thats Al & Monica on the ferry North from stavanger at 7 am on 3rd Jan. Not bad. Yup, this was another EPIC Hemsedal trip. its miles. Chris could get to the alps quicker.But he cannae stan up straight cannae?
Lunch time:-)
Pretty fjord going dark, about 3pm, 7 hrs in2 the drive
Next is a wee Vid of us Xing The Hardangervidda- the largest upland area of europe. It is like driving over top of the Cairngorms. You arnt allowed to drive alone, you have to wait for the snowplows and drive in a convoy. when we started the crossing, we were behind some lorries that could not get up the hill, that was scary. Bevre was driving, he handlet it well, and did not use the brakes all the way over.
Didnt seem to get many ski-photos! But, it snowed, a lot.
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Det er tilbake!: In Search of the Snow
Welcome back heather-and-mud loving dudes! due to popular demand (ok 2 mates who want there names to finally come up on gooogle for once: A-L-L-A-N ...S-T-U-A-R-T and D-O-U-G-A-L...G-R-A-N-T ) its all right here, its 2008 (incidentally, thats potentially the first one in 24(?) that a Clinton or a Bush might not be president of the US) the ski season is quarter over b4 i got arsed turning on my laptop, course i was too busy havin fun wasnt aye, right, aye don,t think so. So, its all new, we have a funky new red background and an foul-language warning page, plus you can leave abusive comments too. geepers, the google boys must have been hard at work all year. IKKE. This year will include exclusive Beaverage too.
I have 2 new pairs of skis from last year to try out, but havnt managed to get off the Volkls or B2,s yet. it started snowing in the alps at end of november with 2 full metres of dumping. Unfortunately mchardski was still stuck in 2007 and was marooned in Saudi Arabia of all places getting a virus that almost scuppered everything. Norske got off to a wild start too, and in January 2008 Hemsedal had its highest ever on record snowfall - about 2.5 metres in a month!- more on that below.
snow; without further snowcrastination; let the snow go on. :-)
ps: snowpromise to spell better this year
I have 2 new pairs of skis from last year to try out, but havnt managed to get off the Volkls or B2,s yet. it started snowing in the alps at end of november with 2 full metres of dumping. Unfortunately mchardski was still stuck in 2007 and was marooned in Saudi Arabia of all places getting a virus that almost scuppered everything. Norske got off to a wild start too, and in January 2008 Hemsedal had its highest ever on record snowfall - about 2.5 metres in a month!- more on that below.
snow; without further snowcrastination; let the snow go on. :-)
ps: snowpromise to spell better this year
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