All 3 winters that we have been here in Norway, part of the fjord has frozen over near Sandvika. We had heard of and even seen people skiing, skating and generally enjoying a walk on the frozen fjord. We had never been out in such a way ourselves, so this is something that we have been talking about doing for awhile. Our friend and neighbor Harini suggested we go out and try on Saturday, so this is what we did. Of course, after a spell of slightly-above-freezing temps and lots of wet snow, the conditions are not ideal for gliding on ice. But we said we were going to go, so we did. Our two families caravanned along the fjord from Asker to Sandvika and parked at the beach where we had seen people walking from previously. It had been snowing pretty hard all night before and all morning, and we were the only ones in the parking lot. So we put our kids in the pulk (pictured below) and Riya went in a stroller and we set out.
We ended up just trudging through the heavy snow around the island of Kalvoya. Having a stroller in the expedition made going off-pathway impossible, and this was the only option for getting down to the beaches around the island (except for the beach right by the parking lot). And the whole time it was windy and blizzardy, though not super cold, so it wasn't exactly a huge success. We never did make it onto the ice. In fact, there wasn't any ice visible on the fjord -- it just looked like a field of snow. But in my eyes, none of that mattered anyway. The whole point was to get everyone outside (not the easiest option in these conditions) and to have a bit of an adventure with our friends. Bentley had a grand time though, bounding through big snow drifts and jumping to catch snowballs in his mouth. Here he is with his "snow hemorroids" -- they were all over the backs of his paws too. I don't think he minded though.
Anyway, one of the good things about not having an entirely successful ice expedition is that now we get to plan another one when the conditions are different!
We ended up just trudging through the heavy snow around the island of Kalvoya. Having a stroller in the expedition made going off-pathway impossible, and this was the only option for getting down to the beaches around the island (except for the beach right by the parking lot). And the whole time it was windy and blizzardy, though not super cold, so it wasn't exactly a huge success. We never did make it onto the ice. In fact, there wasn't any ice visible on the fjord -- it just looked like a field of snow. But in my eyes, none of that mattered anyway. The whole point was to get everyone outside (not the easiest option in these conditions) and to have a bit of an adventure with our friends. Bentley had a grand time though, bounding through big snow drifts and jumping to catch snowballs in his mouth. Here he is with his "snow hemorroids" -- they were all over the backs of his paws too. I don't think he minded though.
Anyway, one of the good things about not having an entirely successful ice expedition is that now we get to plan another one when the conditions are different!
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