Nordic Ski Technique

Overview

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A starting point for learning the skills necessary to ski to the Poles or across Greenland

Introduction

Time to dig out those skis and go gliding through the beautiful Norwegian scenery, but this time start the season by focusing on improving your ski technique. It might also be your first experience on skis that need waxing and that's a whole new world opening up to those who have always previously used skins for grip.

With small groups and time to consolidate your learning, let us know what you want to work on developing - ski efficiency, controlling the pulk on descents, confidence on downhills, or maybe another aspect of winter polar travel eg. winter navigation or night navigation. Make this training opportunity work for you!

This course is aimed at those who have already completed a couple of polar trips and would like to focus on their efficiency and confidence on skis with a pulk.

Start pointint: Oslo, Norway
Grade: 2A

Experience Required

The trip requires some previous experience of cross country skiing with a pulk, although you don't need to be proficient in these skills. You need to have a reasonable fitness level (for example, a regular hillwalker able to carry a day rucksack for approx 5 - 6 hours on several consecutive days). The fitter you are, the more you will get out of this course.

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Additional Information

If you wish to discuss any aspect of the expedition or your suitability for it, please phone +44 (0)114 276 3322 or contact us.

Dates & Prices

Date	Meeting in		Availability
2026 dates to be announced — Please register your interest

Know Before You Go

Jagged Globe supports the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) ‘Know Before You Go’ campaign. We recommend that you read the FCDO Travel Advice for Norway on the FCDO Website.

What the price includes

• International flights from London to Oslo (unless joining ‘Land Only’)
• Transportation to/from Oslo Gardermoen airport – Kvitavatn Fjellstue (approx. 3.5 hours)
• 3 nights in the fjellstue
• 1 nights in a tent (if preferred, you can choose to spend the final night at the fjellstue)
• Sleeping bag (suitable to -25C) for the night out in a tent
• All meals from arrival at the Fjellstue, including expedition food
• Waxing track skis, poles and boots for one day of the course (can be hired for extra days directly from the fjellstue ski hire at approx 350nok/day)
• Loan of mountain skis, boots, ski poles
• All leader costs (1 guide per 6 team members)
• All communal equipment, e.g. tents, stoves, sledges, shovels, emergency communications and medical kit
• Jagged Globe kit bag

What the price does not include

• Transportation by taxi, buses and train back from Kvitavatn to Oslo airport (approx 900nok extra)
• Personal clothing and sleeping mat (an equipment and clothing list will be sent to you on receipt of your booking deposit)
• Excess baggage charges
• Bar bills and laundry
• Travel insurance
• Optional trips
• Tips

*Single room available on request, depending on availability.

Tailor-made option

We can organise this expedition on a ‘tailor-made’ private basis for groups of friends, families, clubs, charities or any other group. Depending on your skiing experience, you may want a Jagged Globe leader or go ‘self-led’ with the assistance of local guides. The cost of going private can be surprisingly reasonable, particularly if you take the self-led option. Please contact us to discuss the itinerary and your preferred dates. We will then send you a quote, with no obligation.

Insurance

You will need a travel insurance policy that caters for the activities you will undertake on your trip with Jagged Globe. It is a requirement of our booking conditions that you have such a policy. For a list of insurers who specialise in mountaineering, trekking and skiing, please see our Travel Insurance page »

Itinerary

Here is an outline itinerary for this trip. A more detailed day-to-day itinerary is available as a downloadable PDF »

Outline Itinerary

Day 1:	Travel to course base in Norway Fly to Norway. Road transfer into the mountains. Evening meal and briefing.
Day 2:	Introductory day After breakfast, we prepare the waxing skis, then head off spending time improving glide technique on these 'skinny' track skis the first day. We'll leave some time each of the next two days for you to head out 'on tour' for individual consolidation of skills. This area is well-supported with help and advice, and easy to find your way around. At this time of year the days are short, however there is 9km of floodlit track leading out straight from the door, so you can keep on practicing your skiing even after dark. Overnight at the fjellstue.
Day 3:	Today we swop back to the expedition skis with half skins and polar boots. Time spent on the introductory downhill slopes and offtrack slopes with/without the pulk will improve our balance and confidence in downhill techniques. More consolidation time at the end of the day. Overnight at the fjellstue.
Day 4:	This will be an opportunity to put into practice our ski techniques in a variety of locations around the Kvitåvatn area on steeper ground and almost exclusively offtrack. We plan to explore the beautiful Andordalen area before setting up camp - it feels good to be back out 'on tour' in the mountains, however short the duration of the expedition. Optional night 4 back indoors at the fjellstue, if preferred.
Day 8:	Travel home After breakfast, we return from our campsite early in the morning and have time to sort the group kit/pack whatever we've left behind at the fjellstue. Around midday, we start our journey by public transport - taxi, buses and train back to Oslo airport, arriving early evening for a flight home the same day. (Please note, you make this journey back to the airport with other participants from the course unaccompanied by the guide, who remains at the fjellstue at the end of the course).

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