The Cross Country Skiing Paradise Of Norway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2023
- Cross country skiing, Norway’s national sport, and where better place to nordic ski than arguably Norway’s best cross country skiing location: Sjusjøen.
Also known as Nordic skiing, sometimes ski touring, or simply XC skiing, this sport is growing increasingly popular thanks to the combination of exercise, technique, and often stunning scenery.
360km of trails makes Sjusjøen a top Nordic skiing destination, with people travelling from all over Norway, and even the world, to ski here. Are the boys becoming the new johannes klæbo? Will they maybe Even meet Øystein Pettersen?
Sjusjøen is the location for several cross country skiing races throughout the ski season, including the famous Birkebeinerrennet which runs through Sjusjøen.
Cross country skiing, or langrennsski as it’s known in Norwegian, actually has two quite distinct styles, classic and skating (klassisk and skøyte in Norwegian respectively). The equipment, and more importantly technique, are quite different in each. Most XC skiing beginners start with classic, and then move onto skating which is usually considered more challenging.
Many professionals come to Sjusjøen to train, including Petter Northug, Johannes Klæbo, Marit Bjørgen, Øystein Pettersen, many of whom have won Olympic medals and represent the best of the best at the sport. And not to forget Therese Johaug.
Nordic skiing can be a serious workout and many consider skiers to have some of the highest VO2 max levels of any support. However, it’s also a popular activity with recreational skiers who simply enjoy heading out for a leisurely trip.
Should we make a episode with Therese Johaug?
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Beautiful scenery-thank you
I had to check: in the Oslo-marka there are 2600km trails and 90km of them with lighting for evening trips. You can take the underground in and out of the marka.
Good Intel! We loving skiing around in Marka, we actually tested out Frognersetteren this week, but still a bit sketchy with the gravel. But looks like the snow has arrived in the weekend!
One of our favourite trips is Mariadalsvannet-Sognsvann and back!
@@Becomenorwegian When we were kids we skied Tryvann-Kobberhaughytta-Ullevålsæter-Sognsvann, or Tryvann-Kobberhaughyta-Sørkedalen(so much downhill through the forest, mostly ploughing with the skies) Good fun!
Nice outdoor activity ❄️🎿
@@espetorthat sounds wonderful ❄️⛷️
I keep looking at Oslo - it looks busy! but keep returning to Lillehammer/Sjusjoen
What a fantastic sport to get into. Enjoying your vids. Oh & Just been to the beach here in Tasmania guys. 🐧
It is indeed, so fun, such a good workout and out in nature! That’s also seems like a good vibe☀️ enjoy!
What cross country skiing content do you wanna see from us this season? 🫶
Bloopers, lots of bloopers!
How-to ski technique videos from the pro skiers, please! Especially rollerskiing technique for those of us who don't live near snow.
@@RedShipsofSpainAgain@johanneshk gives the best content on his channel. Also there are many Russian speaking youtube channels like:
@SkateClassic,
@vsenalyzhi,
@ski_dope
etc
with very good content about XC skiing, but most of them without English subtitles unfortunately.
As a Norwegian, I am impressed 👏
Thats the biggest compliment we can get, looks like you can help us film 🥸
@@Becomenorwegian Anytime. I support all cross country related integration projects 🫡🇳🇴
That is a lot of snow that you have in Norway. We have maybe a centimeter of snow here and it has been fairly. warm. Plus 10c for Wednesday. Glad to see you are all having a great time. Greetings from Edmonton Canada
Thanks Bill!🏆
Quite surprised by the fact that there isn’t more snow in Canada! Maybe we are going to get some climate refugees to Norway❄️⛷️ Edmonton looks beautiful though!
@@Becomenorwegian Thank you. I live 20 minutes east of Edmonton. Fort Saskatchewan to be exact. But not to many people know where that is. Edmonton is so very very close.Cheers my friend
@@Becomenorwegian I'm looking in envy at the amount of snow in Norway right now. In Canada (east coast) we had a GREEN xmas ! Never seen that before. Now only 8 cm snow at below 14 oC but it will melt (again) in the weekly-meltdown-day. Wednesday Jan.10. + 8 oC with a little snow but mostly rain.
I went to Sjusjøen for the first time last year after several years cross country skiing in Alpine regions. It was fantastic, I need to get back there. We stayed in Lillehammer and it was easy to catch the bus up to Sjusjøen for a day’s skiing finishing with a ski back to the outskirts of Lillehammer.
Love it! Sjusjøen is just a place thats very hard to compete with, the alps are playground for skitouring and alpine skiing, but not the best for cross country skiing. The home country of xc skiing is simply unbeatable🇳🇴
@@Becomenorwegian it is so easy to get there too. We flew into Oslo where there is a direct rail link to Lillehammer. The Norwegian public transport app made travel to and around the area very easy.
Yeah, I just love this sport and tomorrow I'm gonna check trails near Sjusjoen. Dreams come true 🎉
That sounds lovely and it will not disappoint, that place is just magical!
@@Becomenorwegian it was soooo fantastic! I'll come back in March! Have a great start of 2024!
Love It!
You should check out the Birkenbeiner ski marathon that is in march!
a baby on the trail. WOW. I thought you said it's below 35 oC ?? 🥶
The amount of ways we have seen baby’s being carried around in ski tracks is impressive. Nothing stops the Norwegian from going skiing🧊
both skate and classic💪
That we can fix⛷️
@@Becomenorwegian haha I race both so never will change that 😂
😂😂 Hvor grineren Thomas - jeg har brugt hver vinter i min barndom mellem Nordseter og Sjusjøen 😂
Hahah perfekt, det er virkelig et magisk sted! Hit me up næste gang du er her!
Hi guys.. brilliant video.. thanks. What is it like end March, April for x country skiing...still enough snow? I'm going at this time
Thanks! Hope you will enjoy some of our other videos aswell!❄️
March and April are absolutely lovely, due to longer daylight, more sun and warmer temperatures and the tracks are still very good! In Norway “Easter skiing” is known for being able to go cross country skiing in t-shirt with the sun out. So you have something great to look forward to! ☀️
Great to see you video. Are you still in in Sjusjoen?
We unfortunately do not live there but we try to go most weekends!
where can i watch the video of them skiin last year? i cant find it on their channel
Unfortunately we didn’t do TH-cam videos at that point, but we promise that we will provide very much content this season! Hope you enjoyed the episode!
Please do
We promise!
One thing you have clearly adopted perfectly is the lack of consideration for the classic tracks that Norwegian skate skiers display.
Please do enlighten us in what not to do⛷️ We want to make sure to learn all the customs of a xc track.
@@Becomenorwegian
The thing is that skate skiers tend to disturb the classic tracks, especially on the traditional standard-width trails, where the middle section isn’t broad enough to allow for skating without sticking part of the ski into and across the classic track. This partially ruins the classic track and causes small piles of snow to fall into the track, making it more difficult to keep up a smooth classic stride.
I have just returned from Beitostølen, where many of the tracks have a broad enough middle section to allow for skate skiing, but skaters didn’t seem to keep to those. At one point a track had just been groomed-the grooming machine came towards us-and we were looking forward to pristine tracks after it had passed us. However, in front of us were three skate skiers, and they basically almost canceled the efforts of the grooming machine minutes after.
But hey, I’m Danish. Maybe this isn’t a thing among Norwegians … 🙃
That's some ugly technique guys. 😃 Keep at it !
Haha indeed it is, we are working hard🪄
Sounds like you are Norwegian😂
@@Becomenorwegian American but long time XC skier and racer. Most fun you can have with your clothes on. Best venue (Nature), easy on the body, full body work out, element of speed but not dangerous speed. Wish I had been born in Norway ! You guys are living the dream !