After being hospitalised with a head injury this evening (I thought it would be fun to walk into a cupboard door), Morten and I decided to go for an evening skate on Sognsvann on the outskirts of the city. We were greeted with beautiful smooth ice interspersed with the occasional snow dump.
The local fire fighters had been doing some sort of training on the ice and had cut a big triangle out of the ice.
More photos from my recent skating trip to Kringlevann. We had terrific weather this day, -6° C and very little clouds. A great change from the past month of dreary rainy crap.
An Oslo native called Morten saw me skating and stopped to come skate with me.
I took the following panorama on my phone whilst skating on Kringlevann, not far from outskirts of Oslo.
Morten and I headed to Langvann for some ice skating. Beautiful weather and a really long and smooth sheet of ice to skate on.
People keep asking me how cold Oslo is. A picture supposedly paints a thousand words, so here is a photo I took outside a bar this morning.
Presumably a patron left their beer sitting outside last night, and by this morning it was frozen solid.
After multiple trips over the past few weeks to Kringlevann all resulted in failed attempts at skating, I was beginning to think my chances of skating in the great outdoors this season was fading fast. Fortunately we had a good freeze over the past few days and only a minor dusting of snow. After I trudged up the hill to the lake, I was greeted with a solid 50 – 70 mm of rock hard smooth ice 🙂 The snow on top was all fluffy stuff which didn’t affect skating at all.
Me skating on Kringlevann
Clearly this went off with a big crack as I turned around immediately!
Beautiful view onto the skating surface at Kringlevann
I brought a drill along in case I needed to gingerly make my way onto the surface, but it turned out to be hard as a rock and not needed.