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- From: blix@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Gunnar Blix)
- Subject: Re: Skiing in Southern Sweden/Norway
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1993Jan21.154101.414@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:54:12 GMT
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- malcolm@cm2f.uni-c.dk (Malcolm Brown) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >I have been posted to Copenhagen by my company, and I would like
- >to do some skiing. Since Denmark doesn't have any snow I thought of
- >Southern Sweden or Norway.
-
- >Can anyone give me recommendations of good places for cross country or
- >downhill skiing not too far from Copenhagen, which could be reached for
- >a weekend trip.
-
- Weekend trips are probably going to be pretty strenuous... Getting to
- Sweden is an easy thing, but you don't exactly end up in the best
- terrain for skiing by taking the ferry across. Getting to Norway is
- going to cost you an airplane ticket or an overnight ferry, and then
- you have to get from wherever to the ski areas, which would be a few
- more hours...
-
- There are small ski hills in Oslo. Maybe you could make it a long
- weekend and have fun on the boat accross. You have to go a couple of
- hours from Oslo to get to anything with several lifts (Kongsberg,
- Norefjell). Taking the boat across to Kristiansand would probably put
- you closer to some areas in Telemark (yup, you guessed it, that's
- where the name of that weird style of skiing comes from :-).
-
- About Sweden, the Swedes can probably answer you better. All I know
- is that Aare is out of the way for you.
-
- And then there is always the possibility of going south. There should
- be several reasonably priced offers for trips to Austria, France,
- Switzerland, and such.
-
- Go visit a travel agent when you get there.
-
-
-
-
-
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