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To The Start Line

In which Mrs P and I head to the start line if our next big adventure

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Here We Go Again

16th February 2025 and Mrs P and I are off for a bit of a ski tour in Norway. 6 weeks and around 400 miles.

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Trial run - Part 2 - Big news

Have we passed our own test? Can we ski well enough in most conditions? Does the pulk work? Are we fast enough? Are our rucksacks light enough? The answer is…

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Trial run - Part 1

It all began shortly after sunrise on Monday morning when David, Trond and I set off from the cabin carrying everything our new team of 3 would use should the journey north continue.

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Hair today…

I have my daily chat with the inimitable Mrs P. The counselling sessions have ended (she’s too expensive), so what to talk about?

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That’s no way to get fit

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Packing 200kg of re supplies is not exciting

Fortunately it seems that a modicum of linguistic capability is not a requirement for a short term Norwegian residents permit.

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And so it begins

…while I patted myself down, searched every pocket and rifled through my rucksack for about the 4th time David simply disowned me and wandered off.

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Here’s to a good night’s sleep

The following video shows the sleeping kit I will be carrying on our 4 month Norway ski trip, the Norge på Langs.

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Overcoming Barriers

A brief update explaining how the pack of cards nearly came tumbling down around our ears.

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The ups and downs of piling on the pounds

I need to put on weight. I don’t have a great deal of spare body fat at the best of times and, as usual, lost a bit of weight on our recent trip to Europe (I blame Mrs P’s boot camp).

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Oh no! Not again!?

By way of proof that , of late, I seem to be somewhat accident prone, I managed to break a rib today.

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The Pain in Spain…

Roller skis have no brakes and I have not used them on downhill sections before…

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Are we seriously going to be sleeping in that!?

I think his search criteria was something like:

"What is the lightest thing that we might survive in that isn’t a bin liner?”

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Bloody parrot!

I was planning to fill you in on my Long Covid recovery today. However, I will instead be writing about my latest injury, because today I have injured myself. Again! Suffice to say that I am not a happy bunny.