Moon rising over Bjordalsbu hut (1580m) in Skarvheimen, 6 April 2012
Over Easter I spent 10 days skiing with a friend, in a 200km upside down J shaped route, from Lake Tyin South of Jotunheimen, via Tomashelleren and Yksendalsbu to Fondsbu, and then more-or-less due South to Finse, the high point on the railway line between Bergen and Oslo.
Norway had had about its warmest ever March, with snow much reduced below 1000m. Luckily by the time we set out cold conditions had returned, with temperatures down to -20oC on some nights (hence the semi-obsession with stoves in the pictures below).
From the second day, fresh snow had begun to cover the nasty "boiler plate" left by the thaw; and from day three, with the North West wind largely gone, conditions gradually improved.
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