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VIDEO: Norwegian Winter Skiing (mis)Adventure

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth May 13, 2015

May or not, it only takes a few minutes to drive up the mountain here in Norway to where the views are positively wintery, hence I thought it would be quite OK to go back couple of months to a (mis)adventure on skis, this time in a form of a […]

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Norwegian Winter Skiing Adventure: In the Search for Snow

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 20, 2015

That very first night of my very first multi-day ski adventure, right about the time my friend Åsa was clinging onto a tree while her sledge and hunting dog Scooby tried to pull her down the steep hill into the darkness, I lost one of my skis. There was no […]

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Adventure a Week: Never Too Young (or Old)

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 5, 2015

I’m going to bypass the start of 2015 very quickly by wishing Happy New Year, as on Thursday I’ll have bit of loving on its way for 2014, 2015 and Instagram Travel Thursday. Instead, I’ll get straight to the business of adventure. A term, that I seem to use very […]

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Påskevær – Best in Norway

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 22, 2014

There are many good things that hail from Norway. Take koselig for example, a small word that makes everything cozy, albeit the direct translation can’t even encompass all the coziness this word possesses. And then there is something even better. Påskevær. Easter weather. This is what it is, in all of […]

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Kings of a Cabin – Let the Microadventures Begin!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 6, 2014

It was hard to say when the last day of 2013 ended and the first day of 2014 began, as the thick fog enveloped the valley floor and our home, only to greet the grey skies up above. This was our last chance this winter to cross off the first […]

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Easter Escape to the Mountains

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 1, 2013

Bored of wintery mountain pictures with blue skies and lots of white snow yet? I thought I was. I mean I thought I was 100% over and done with winter too. It’s the start of April and the temperatures still drop to −10C (14F) in the mornings. Something is not quite right […]

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Taste of an Adventure

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 4, 2013

This past weekend we got a little taste of adventure. Not in the same way as when we tried to ski from mountain hut to mountain hut with our toddler and ended up returning home, tail in between our legs although even then happy of our adventure. But just a […]

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