Start of Easter, Cabin Recon- Nurhan's take:

Nurhan's take:

 Easter in Norway is a big event, in as folk take time off and official holidays are 1/2 day this coming Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & the Monday off; many folk take the whole week off. David (see pic below), Kin, & I (above pic), got skiing on Saturday. The interesting thing here is how little snow there is this year compared with last year. Last year the road below this peak had ~ 1.6 m of snow at the same time (see posts, 

Keeping track of your human is a full time job - Kin

and see post:

Ferries & out doors life - Nurhan's take:

This year there is way less snow. Also interesting is that we normally ski in areas that areon high ground with high ground all around; you can clearly see from the photo that wereally are on the edge of the snow limit, the view over my right shoulder is a NW direction looking out to the sea and the land drops - and spring has arrived; looking the other way terrain is higher, and fighting it's rear-guard action against the arrival of spring.

Wasn't a long ski trip, but in places good fun as the snow was soft enough to blast down and turn - although the 'natural' dog hazard was a bit of a problem. Kin likes to run into you, now if the slope is steep enough (and you are going down) he doesn't have a hope of keeping up, otherwise he'll run sideways into you, or try to grab your ankles... now this tends to not only be annoying but can be quite dangerous, as the skis that we use are called 'fjell-ski' and they have metal edges - or to put it another way, think four long knives, so you have to be very careful not to cut the little chap's legs... he has no such worries as he tries 'T boning' you.

He also has a habit when you are going up hill of running in front of your skis and then stopping, which can be 'entertaining' as you try to herring bone up a slope.

No clue how to cure him of the above issues.

By the time we got back to the car he was very tired - and to put this in perspective, this was a really short ski, the snow was hard, so he didn't sink, and normally we would be skiing for not less than four hours, this trip was maybe an hour - this is one good reason for not taking him on the longer trips, another is that if anything happened, it would be really difficult to get him back to the road/car, and the third is that look at him this kind of trip is on ther right side of what he considers fun, I don't believe that he'd enjoy a longer trip with steeper downhills.

Below pic is of David.

Behind the highest ski tip in the photo is the sea.