{"id":16971,"date":"2023-03-17T20:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16971"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:17:37","slug":"daily_2960_-_hardangervidda_day_3_-_afternoon_circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/daily_2960_-_hardangervidda_day_3_-_afternoon_circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2960 &#8211; Hardangervidda, day 3 &#8211; afternoon circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was still pretty awful the first half of the day, but then gradually improved. Not in time for us to undertake a longer ski and move on to the next hut, but enough to allow us to go out and stretch our legs on a little circuit near the hut.<\/p>\n<p>Bright white skies and white snow made photography difficult today, plus I had my ski goggles on to protect against the wind. Most of the time I couldn&#8217;t see anything on the camera LCD screen. I almost thought the camera was broken, but I could just barely make out some of the indicators in the corners. I just set the camera to Auto mode, pointed it roughly in the right direction, clicked and hoped for the best.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dyranut seems to be a centre for kite skiing. We saw numerous kite skiers and kite snowboarders both yesterday before the storm, and today after it. Yesterday&#8217;s winds were strong enough, even well before the storm, to lift the skiers in to air &#8211; I literally saw some of them flying. Flying among icy rocks with your skis on seems like a dangerous idea, but on the other hand they seemed to be fully in control, so I guess they know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of dog sled teams here overnight. I wonder if the dogs stayed out in the storm all night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2960_skiing_7.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday on the trail we also passed groups who were camping out in tents. One of the groups was training for a trip across the South Pole, if I caught the conversation correctly. I guess if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re aiming for, then a night out in a snowstorm with temperatures no lower than &ndash;10&deg;C is peanuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was still pretty awful the first half of the day, but then gradually improved. Not in time for us to undertake a longer ski and move on to the next hut, but enough to allow us to go out and stretch our legs on a little circuit near the hut. Bright white skies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,768,782,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-skiing_xc","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}