Christmas break, day 7
Tops visited:
| Top | Height | PF | Municipality |
| Nattrudstilen | 960m | 84m | Ringsaker, Norway |
| Storåsen | 974m | 17m | Ringsaker, Norway |
Day 7 on Sjusjøen and today’s goal (for me) was Nattrudstilen (965m) – on the south side of lake Sjusjøen and 5km south/southeast of the cabin. This would start out as a joint ski-trip with our friends Anne May and Jan, and my suggestion was that we split company at Sjusjøkrysset. I was hoping that Jan would come with me though.
When we reached Sjusjøkrysset, Anne May and Anne were happy to return to the cabin along a different track, getting a nice 8km+ round trip. Karma joined them, as she had already done a LOT of running this Christmas.
Jan wanted to come along and then we headed for Nattrudstilen…
There wasn’t a prepared track to the top from the direction we were coming, but it was fairly easy to get up to the ridge. We took a pause to put some more wax on. Today, was skiing on my old skating skis.
The weather wasn’t as good as the other days and we had a light snowfall across the meadows. But when we got to the top it started to clear up. Big bonus!
There is a slalom hill on the south side of Nattrudstilen. We could see the top of it from the high point and didn’t bother to take the trip to see part of the slopes.
Instead we descended to the west, along the ridge and then along snowy roads until we got down the prepared tracks at Rømåsen. There were lots of people there and we could probably buy hot-dogs if just waited long enough.
We sat course back to Sjusjøen, joined our tracks on the far side of Sjøbekken and at Sjusjøkrysset – we followed the same track as Anne May and Anne – northwest to the cross-country arena at Sjusjøen. Which was a crowded place…
Jan hadn’t been to the top of Storåsen before (they had just taken over the cabin) and I suggested we took the route on the west sideof Storåsen and returned to the cabin via the high point. Jan seemed to enjoy reaching the top and 2 minutes after leaving, we were down by the cabin.
A fun 17,3km round trip!
