 Poster: A snowHead
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So, I'm considering going to Norway in February. My idea is to take an overnight ferry to Kristiansand, and then I was looking at skiing places nearby(ish). I've found Vrådal, which looks reachable by bus/train within a day (around 5 hours). I can see it's a pretty small resort, but a few different lifts and pistes, webcams look good for lots of snow. I'd be aiming for 4 days of skiing, and would get some lessons too. I mostly just want to get some exercise and to enjoy being outdoors. I prefer easy pistes - wide gentle greens/blues are great and really don't mind repeating the same piste over and over again.
So anyone been?
In particular, if I stay in the hotel in the main village area, this looks to be a couple of kms from the ski lifts - is there any transport available? I can't see anything about ski buses.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's 6km from hotel to ski lifts. You need to arrange trips with hotel's own bus. No public transport.
Great variety of pistes, wide Red and blue and 1 black
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks for the information, that's really useful.
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@Rcav, pretty niche. Something special about the place that warrants all that travel?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| @Rcav, pretty niche. Something special about the place that warrants all that travel? |
It's more that I want to try out the new ferry route to Norway. I have a week off work for carnival in Feb, which is half term for many people, so alpine resorts will be rather busy - so thought I could combine this with the new ferry route and I was then looking around at places to ski in Norway, this seemed to be one of the better options for me within reach of Kristiansand. I'm open to suggestions of other resorts that are within reach by public transport from Kristiansand.
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Gaustablikk might be an option (35km of slopes), just going on RometoRio says 5 1/2 hours from Kristiansand to Rjukan then Gaustablikk isnt far. Looks an interesting ski area, well to me anyway.
And a bit of history as at the hydro plant there was where the heavy water was made in WWII that the Nazis wanted to use for their atomic weapons programme until some commandos sent a big shipment to the bottom of the lake.
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