We spent a fair amount of time in the kitchen this week drying edibles and preparing food for upcoming trips. I can’t say these times we’re highlights, but when we did get away from the ovens, we made it worthwhile! One day consisted of a trip to Jotenheim, Olof and I, being the foreign students, were unclear as to whether we were hiking, canoeing, or biking. As it turned out, we were mountain biking and filming. Conditions were perfect: a recent fall of light snow, standing water everywhere, and the temperature, barely above freezing. This did not suit Olof, who, unaware that we were traveling to Jotenheim, had come prepared for a much milder trip “just across the lake”. The filming started off slowly, with five of us “biking towards the camera in a nice straight line”. This lasted until we got halfway through a swamp, into which, all five of us fell. Once we started biking, though, the extremities started to thaw and good humours returned.
Climbing in my spare time with Helge and Tor Olav.
The zoom on my camera was not sufficient to capture the reindeer at the base of the mountain, but you may be able to make out a faint dark line in the middle of the picture. They were being herded by numerous helicopters. I am told that they are privately owned and that twice a year, over 7000 caribou are rounded up for butchery.
There is a grocery chain here which guarantees that none of its products will be past date. If they are, you can get them for free, and if they can’t replace the product, they actually have to pay you money. We “purchased” a few kilos of ready-to-cook salmon the other day, not that we don’t get enough fish around here… It makes a very nice midnight snack.
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