"Having settled on where to ski in Norway, I found myself packing up the Kvikk Lunsj wafers and sweet brown brunost cheese sandwiches at the glassy Juvet Landscape Hotel, deep in the Sunnmøre Alps. Then the slow ascent, with skins on our splitboard skis, up to the peak at Mefjellet: torturous in some ways, looking at all that glinting Care Bear snow all the way up, but also a deliciously tantric act of meditation and delayed gratification."
"The key thing to remember when it comes to skiing in Norway is that it's not the Alps. Yes, there are excellent resorts, but they tend to be lower and smaller, albeit every bit as snowsure as the highest Alpine resorts. There's much more of a culture of ski-touring - skinning upwards, Nordic-style, and whooshing downwards - which goes hand in hand with the Norwegian philosophy of the friluftsliv ("open-air life")."
Skiing in Norway emphasizes ski-touring and friluftsliv, with more skinning and backcountry descents than lift-focused Alpine skiing. Resorts are often lower and smaller but remain snow-sure. Fjord-veined coastline and areas like the Sunnmøre Alps offer summit-to-sea routes and dramatic waterscape views. Cultural features include glassy hotels, Kvikk Lunsj wafers, brunost sandwiches, saunas, fjord plunges, night skiing under floodlights, and occasional Northern Lights displays. Splitboard and touring equipment are common. The terrain ranges from resort runs to deep nature excursions that reward patience, effort, and an emphasis on open-air life.
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