Mentoware

 

Windows 7 – the new king of operating systems, being superior to Vista in it’s swiftness and feature-rich environment. It’s not yet out but almost everyone is using it  (legally, Microsoft released a Release Client free to download that expires july 2010). Vendors aren’t super-fast about creating supported software though, luckily most software that works on Vista also works on Windows 7, except for the Sony Ericsson SDK.

The Sony Ericsson SDK is a collection of programs to develop mobile applications on Sony Ericsson phones. Every phone brand has thier set of functions and programming interfaces so if you want to develop applications on a Sony Ericsson phone like the one i have, you’ll need the SDK. (If you don’t know what an SDK is, you probably don’t need to read this)…

Anyways, making the SE (Sony Ericsson) SDK work on Windows 7 is a bit tricky and i’ve noticed a lot are having problems with this. There aren’t that many resources and whatever exists is hard to find (Hint: Sony Ericsson developer webpages) so i thought i’d create a small guide.

First off you’ll need the SDK itself which you’ll find here. It’s java based (and not the easy-peasy-type of Java that just works) so you’ll need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 which you’ll find here.

First, install the JRE (Right click on the .exe and install with Administrative priviliges).

Second, install the SE SDK (don’t forget administrative priviliges). Notice how the installation of the SEMC SDK Service goes very slow. This is because it’s lacking a file.

That file is never really copied over and you won’t get any error messages about it from Windows 7, if you go to your \SDK\OnDEviceDebugging\bin directory and run jsl.exe –run jsl.ini you’ll get an error message saying it can’t find MSVCR71.DLL on your system. This is actually a common problem for many MSVCR71.DLL-dependant applications.

The solution is to go to your Java JRE\bin folder, find MSVCR71.DLL and copy it over to your Sony Ericsson\OnDeviceDebug\lib-folder (where jsl.exe is located). On my machine the SDK with JRE installed to C:\sun\SDK\jdk\jre\bin.

Next, configure your firewall. I had to open everything to obtain access, haven’t bothered to experiment further with it – i will if it becomes a matter. To do this, click the start button and write “firewall” - “Windows firewall with advanced security” should pop up. Start it and go to Action –> Properties –> Domain Profile. I chose “Allow” on all profiles (Domain profile, Private Profile and Public Profile).

Instructions for determining if you did it correctly are located here and here (firewall configuration explanation).

Still don’t work? I found a “triks i ludo” for last resorts. Apparently when you connect your phone, Windows 7 automatically sets it to a public network – restricting it sorely. Solution? Press the start button and write gpedit.msc (nothing will show on the search, press enter anyways). The Group Policy Editor will pop up.
Go to Computer configuration –> Windows Settings –> Security Settings –> Network list manager. Open properties for “All networks” and set “User can change location”. Do this for Unidentified networks as well. Now go to the network and sharing centre and confirm that the “park bench”-icon is gone. It still says “Unidentified network” but apparently it’s now correctly treated…

If this doesn't work (like it didn't in my case) - check the error log. Make sure you install the latest JRE update 16 (which is Windows 7-compatible), in my case that made running jsl.exe -run jsl.ini inoperable, i did however make a successful start of the SDK service after a restart and some "trial and error".

That didn't solve every problem though, i still couldn't connect. Looked in the log and it turned out it couldn't find the IP of the phone. Strange because i could by pinging IP.IP.255.255 (169.254.255.255 in my case). It does however use a file called sdkme.properties to try and manually find a configuration and low and behold, by using the IP that's resolved by pinging 169.254.255.255 (169.254.125.38 in my case) and inserting it at proxy.device.ip: 169.254.125.38, it suddenly worked...

Note: You may need to restart your computer / reseat the connection to the phone a number of times to make this work.

This winter, me and my father went from Oslo to our cabin by Hønefoss on skis. It was something i had been thinking about for a long time and was happy to finally accomplish. Then, last weekend, my sister texts me and asks me if i want to go biking Oslo –> our cabin by bike. I had been thinking about this prior to her asking me so the answer was a clear and definitie “YEAH!”

Therefore, the 29th of august 2009 we set out on our journey!

Took the subway up to Frognerseteren and started there. We got to biking at about 1300. 

We started out going to Kobberhaughytta. A cabin i had checked out online as a good link to where we were headed. Following the trail we headed off into a rather steep uphill. Suddenly i became unsure if this was the right way, i thought i had walked it with my father before but i just couldn’t remember the intensely steep uphill!

A jogger came jogging by and i decided to ask her. She explained that the way would probably be better if we had gone via Tryvann, which was about 25  min away from we were going, all uphill and would be a huge detour.

I therefore made the decision to go back and go by Ullevålseter.

Lise maintained her happiness even though we had just gone hard uphill and had to descend.

 

On the way to Ullevålseter

The drive to Ullevålseter is very fast and very little challenging. Two steep uphills and all downhill to the destination. Once we got there we quickly passed by. The skies were starting to grey up and i had a feeling we should hurry so we would escape from the rain.

We started biking upwards towards a point i knew led to Kobberhaughytta and Kikut. It would lead onto a footpath but i didn’t expect it to last for too long.
 

Up there we met some guy who was being interviewed. He was into horseback-trips in the Oslo terrain. We chatted for a while and i promised to check out the article afterwards. I like the incredbly norwegian mood that still rests just 30-40 km outside downtown Oslo. Everyone’s happy and chatty, people sit around campfires.. It’s like going back 100 years.

We continued into the bush. Knowing little of what distance and terrain would face us further in.

 

This was pretty late in the year so mud and microlakes were popping up all over! We had to make our way over many of these using whatever remedies were available. Balancing on logs and skipping from stone to stone quicker than the water could protrude our breathable jogging-shoes.

 

Otherwise, the path was quide idyllic!

 

 
Funny tree-growth

 

After about 1 hour and some minutes of trotting in the woods we finally made it out of the footpath and could see Kobberhaughytta. We went up only to discover a ROAD leads right to it! Upon entering the cabin my eyes feasted upon a large wonderfully delicious school-bread!

Mmmmmmm

 

Me and my sister fuled up on pastry and went to study the map for the path ahead. It turns out the online resources aren’t all that and a piece of schoo-bread…

We decided upon a route and recieved a free map for our travels by the worlds most helpful kiosk attendant!

 

The route we were supposed to follow, starting from Kobberhaughytta. Notice the red lines with the black ones that lead nowhere… More on that later.

The map we recieved was, however, extremely poor and out of date. Either way, it was a map and most certainly better than no map!

Going first a big downhill, we started going uphill again. Must have been about 5-6 km until we came to a T-turn which was on the map. We opted against goingto Kikut and headed straight towards Lille Sandungen. About 1 km before we got there we switched onto another footpath.

Interesting signage…By bike it’s 2 kilometers to Kikut, by foot/ski it’s 1.5… Veery interesting..

 

Very scenic path to the footpath

Lise was starting to get tired by now, all the uphills were something new and unfamiliar to her body and she had started to tire. Not so good since we still weren’t half way.

 

Second footpath had even more water, streams and small rivers.

 
Dirty muddy water

 

 
 
We really had to tap into the finest of balance arts to make way across the rugged terrain

 

 
But finally we cleared it and got onto the road again! It started raining heavily now.

Moving on, we were suddenly met by someone who had passet us on the footpath. They told us it was a dead end. We investigated the map and yeah.. we had assumed the wrong road as well.. The black lines on the map marks above where we went wrong.  Nothing to do then but turn around and restart.

 

Wonderful scenery once we got onto the right way. 

 

We ran into an old tree, 38 metres high.

Svartengrana – 38 metres high in 1993, probably taller now.

We were now going pretty much straighforward most of the way, Once we reached Storflåtan, a huuuuge lake – we decided to take a pit-stop.

 

At the lake was a dam. 

We ate the food we had brought, i cooked up some pasta-dinner that we shared. Once refueled we were ready to take on the last stretch!

The scenery was AWESOME as we progressed! Damaged only by the power-lines, but if you ask me – they have a certain beauty to them and create some interesting contrasts and lines in the images.

Lise was getting VERY fatigued now and we slowed our pace down A LOT to accomodate her making it all the way through.

Then – after many many hours on the road – we got to the first sign saying we were on the right way to where we were headed! Ringkollen 6.5 KM!

Happines was across the roof at this moment! We had actually made it, we had cycled all the way!

 
My 2000-kroner bike had taken me to the destination! I was mighty proud of it!

  
Darkness was now filling the night. We had a hint of late night sun however.

 

 

 

Civilization was emerging slowly, cars!

 

Lise was very happy about finally making it to Ringkollen!

 

Go right for about 30 min of biking and you’re at our cabin! We decided to head left instead, to visit our grandmother who lives just 1 hour of biking from here.

 

 

We had made it! And just before night-time!

Went up to our grandmother and said "Hello”, she treated us to food (as always when we visit her, she’s pretty great) and waited for my sisters boyfriend to come pick us up. Totally we used about 10 hours, which is the same as we used when skiing, I think however that with a little excersise, this trip could be done in about 4-5 hours. The problem is that it’s all uphill all the way (and then all downhill all the way).

All in all, an excellent trip! I’ve now skiied and biked to my grandmother / our cabin.. next will have to be by foot i guess.

 

Time will show… 

It’s been quite a while since my last update now, summertime has been occupying my time and things are changing in a rapid pace!

Since last time i’ve been:

To Bodø

 

On summer vacation in the west

Picture from a cabin in Heidalen where i spent some weeks with my special someone ;o)

At Lom wooden church

I set out to learn how to ride a horse, something i’ve successfully somewhat learnt.

 

At Stryn Summerski / Folven camping

Me and two friends went to Stryn to try out summerskiing! There’s a glacier there with a ski-centre on top.

 

 

It was pretty awesome!  

 

I tried out a “Snowskate” which is essentially a skateboard and asmall snowboard. Very fun, very challenging!

The west has some sweet sights and wicked nature!

I’ went swimming in some glacier melting water

 

Trekking about in the West of Norway

 

 
I wanted to jump “Ridderspranget” – but someone had put up a fence :S

I was at Brimi Sæter in “Brimiland” – lots of cool animals up there

 

I went and saw “Kvitskriuprestin” – a natural phenomenon

Other than that, things are back to normal now. Work is progressing as usual and i’m pretty much just waiting for winter to return so i can go boarding again with good friends!

More blogposts are a'coming - this one i'm writing because i just tested something out and i need to tell the world!

So i brought my Acer One to the mountain this weekend and when i got back it suddenly stopped working. Power-button LED was on but the screen was totally black. Caps lock key didn't work and none of the lamps seemed to blink (except power/battery). My worst fears came upon me, had my trusted computing companion turned into a brick? Would i have to return to printouts and use my Acer One as a paperweight?

Luckily, no. I googled the answer and low and behold! It's a common error that the BIOS suddenly gets reset into blackness. BIOS is a hardcoded system responsible for making the machine operable on startup. It's possible that this is due to me having it run Windows 7 and having it on sleep mode until the battery got drained. System shock?  (Windows 7 runs smoothly on the Acer One but makes CPU temperature skyrocket! I've had it up to 80 degrees at times. Treshold for Intel Atoms is about 90 degrees celcius.

Macles blog describes how to make a BIOS recovery memory stick. The wait is LONG to have the BIOS completely flashed and for me, the reboot feature didn't work. I had the computer running for about 30 minutes. The first 6-8 min. the power-button LED was blinking. Then it resumed a static state of on. After about 20 minutes i turned it off, turned it on.. and low and behold - BIOS up and running, AA1 started up like normal! :D

I noticed Macles link for fetching the newest bios is destroyed so here's the link to Acer's own pages. Filename must still be renamed as per the description.

Today is Norway’s national day and me and some friends gathered downtown to watch the parades and all the downtown action. The plan was to get pancakes at a special bakery (very few norwegian bakeries sell pancakes believe it or not) so in the morning we set out for the pancake place. Upon arrival however it turned out this one day they weren’t going to serve pancakes… only beef sandwiches and other stuff… I was pretty set out and even offered the cashier more money for making me pancakes, yet she refused still. In the end i just went for the beef sandwhich which was expensive but pretty nice.

Afterwards we set out to watch the parade. The bakery lies close to the castle park so the walk down was easy. Arrived there just in time before the parade started so there werent too many people in the crowd.  Got a pretty nice view over things :)

Even though we were early, we were there at about 10:00, hundreds of people had gathered.. maybe thousands.

 

The royal family emerged onto the balcony and the “folk party” could commence. All in all the start was very low-key. Everyone shouted 3x3 hooray which sounded more like whispering in the crowd and the national anthem was a whispering sensation as well. I would be embarrased to be the King quite honestly…

Police marching band came in front

 

 

After some time we decided to start walking around downtown.. Went to the centre and got some sausages and soda and watched the childrens parade a bit further down on Karl Johans Gate.

 

Pretty nice mood downtown, ran into some friends and chatted for a while, some new people entered our possy and some left. Everything was relaxed and great :)

 

Lots of flags, excellent mood in Oslo

 

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Yours truly was wearing a suit for the occasion with a white shirt and my Boppard glasses. My obligatory flag also accompanied me. This is from a bit later when we decided to get ice cream. We met up with some friends of friends and went down to stand in the insanely long queue outside the Mövenpick store. It was worth it though, the ice cream tasted great!

Marianne had a friend in the band playing at Universitetsplassen, so we went down there to check them out. Pretty nice actually, it gave the whole thing a special sort of mood.

Then came time for the Russeparade. About 20 minutes out we decided to get out of there, just too much whistling and high pitch sounds. Also, some clever bastard discovered that Norwegians like the “foam-in-a-can” spray and decided to sell it. I hate that guy.

 

 

We left to go to Solli plass to drink soda and have a chat. The guy from the universitetsplassen band had joined our party and we were all hanging out. Once we got there, the place was packed full with quadrillions of people.. so we decied to go to a Mix kiosk and buy another sausage.. Here something strange happened and we got sortof separated. Marianne went home with her choir friends and me and Øystein went to go grilling.

The original plan was to check out Kubaparken. Promoe and Kultiration were playing tonight. It seemed like a lot of stress though, tons of people – overcrowded and no real place to sit down and rest our weary legs. So we headed to his house @Muselunden to chill out, grill sausages and enjoy the remaining hours of our national day.

 

 

The sad thing is, i forgot to put on suntan lotion… so now i’m pretty red and hot everywhere, my hopes are however that it will turn out as a fantastic tan :P

I ran "Sentrumsløpet" today. A 10 km run starting in Karl Johans gt. going past the castle, up by Frogner, trough Frognerparken and down towards Karl Johan again, then down to the lower parts of downtown (Youngstorget) and up towards Karl Johans gt. for the finish line. According to the website i got the time of 56 minutes and 49 seconds. A time i'm VERY pleased with. Especially since i've strained / damaged my IT-band somehow and it gave me tons of pain througout the entire race. After finishing i couldn't bend my feet and had to limp my way to my office where i had parked my bike.

 

 

As many of you know, i'm planning to cross Greenland. The original plan was to cross in August 2009, but because of logistical and other difficulties we decided to postpone it to october 2010. We do however have a lot of gear so me and my friend Bjørn-Ove decided to go for one last snow-trip of the year. It was a good time to test out our new Åsnes Amundsen mountain skis!

Åsnes has an ingenious "trap"-system on some of their skis. The system consists of two holes in the skis where you put the end of a ski-trap-thingie.

 

 

 

There is a strap with a metal head which goes through the ski. On the underside there is glue which makes it stick to the base of the ski, on the other side are small hairs which provide resistance against all snow conditions. I had a chance to test it on the super-rotten  conditions of Grotli and it worked perfectly!

 

My new skis! I upgraded the bindings for 50,- extra. The skis themselves were on a super-sale - 1000,- cheaper than normal. This was a golden opportunity that we seized. The skis themselves cost about 3000,- without bindings. Now we got them for 1999  WITH bindings. Add 50 extra for upgraded bindings (worth 750,-) and you've got yourself a super-deal! It's insane really...

The bindings are Rottefella Magnum:

 

You pull up the release lever to withdraw the catches that keep the skis to the bindings. This has two upsides contrary to the ordinary bindings where you push down to release.

1. It's easy to get on even if it's iced. Ordinary bindings can ice easily and be impossible to get on. If this happens, the recommended trick is ... to "release the pressure" on them (read: pee).

2. If the ski gets stuck underneath the ice in water, i'll prevent my foot from icing up and going all gangorine on me because i can get the ski off very quickly. I'll also have a greater chance of salvaging the ski...

 

We decided this trip was going to be all about taking it easy. No big strainous goal. We planned to walk to a cabin called "Klemsbu" and around the mountain back to Finse. If we had time, we'd set out to find Appelsinhytta, a small cabin shack somewhere around the Hardangerjøkulen glacier.

 

Of course everything happened last minute. I left work at about 1300 and the train left 1437. First we went to XXL to find a shovel and for my friend to buy more food rations. They didn't have a nice snowshovel there so we went on to some other stores.. very few of them had any, if they had they were made of plastic. Plastic breaks too easily, we wanted quality stuff. Finally we ended up on Oslo Sportslager. They had the Rottefella snowshovel which is absolutely superior! We also bought some 50cm long ski-plugs for Bjørn-Oves tent.

 

Best picture i could find...

 

The end is deattachable and attaches by pulling a metal ring up over the rod, creating some serious pressure over it. This shovel was designed with the help of the Norwegian Red Cross and the Norwegian ski-union. My friend bought one and i thought it would suffice for the trip.

Bought the shovel and drove to the station where we quickly offloaded. I drove to the fortress to park the car.. Of course this was the one and only day when some UN-veterans were holding a procesion and walking with flags just where i was to walk...

 

 

Got stuck behind them for a good 5-6 minutes. Parked the car and stuck my card in the windshield. Time started running out, we were both hungry and wanted to avoid spending an insane amount on train-food so i started running to the station to reach ordering at Burger king!

Once there (good and sweaty, it was particulary warm this day as the picture reveals) i ordered some food and patiently waited while the service argued with some other customers. Well.. arguing or just debating, i really don't know..

Got my food and ran towards the track.. 7 minutes to go. Bjørn-Ove suddenly told me we haven't got any suntan-lotion. Knowing it costs a grand fortune at Finse (there's no real convenience store, just a small "shack" assosciated with the hotel) we ran into Rema 1000 to purchase trip-goodies and lotion. Time REALLY started running out but with good teamwork we made it out of the store with some 3-4 minutes to spare. Ran all our energy could carry us down the runway to the train and made it just in time!

Then the trip could start.. Hours passed and we passed through Geilo which i've visited with Marianne, Richard and Sebastian before. Still a lot of snow there, looked pretty nice actually!

 

Then, 21:45 (NSB still got it) we arrived at Finse station. Snow here was ridicolously more than anywhere we had been.

 

Bjørn-Ove preparing

Look at all that snow..

 

 

Beautiful evening light at Finse

 

Bjørn-Ove is rummaging through his backpack.. why? (Also notice my skis laying beside his snowsled)

 

Well, it appears Bjørn-Ove had made the ultimate failure.. He had forgotten the ingenious snow-traps for his skis... An attempt to go on without it proved futile. Good advice certainly was getting costly now..

Well, costly enough at least. We talked to the hotel receptionist and he told us he HAD snow-traps for let! Phew! Unfortunately, he couldn't lend it to us now, because he had to man the reception due to his responsebility of placing people at the tables for tonight dinner.. Bummer we thought, but made the decision to camp nearby anyways. It would be a nice test since we didn't bring a winter tent..

We walked a small distance from the Hotel (not too far though, Bjørn-Ove had his skis prepared before going so they were about as useful as walking on pure ice barefoot.

Put up the tent eventually and Bjørn-Ove dig a ditch so we could dangle our legs. But also so the burner would get a nice gap between the roof of the tent and the bottom. The tent went up fine this time btw. The snowplugs proved very useful. However, with this snow - even ordinary plugs worked like a charm..

 

 
The ditch

 

 
Me and Bjørn-Ove just before the first fire of his gas-stove. It worked nicely this time, but firing it up is sortof a project..

 

 
Burn well burner.. It burnt like crazy!

 
Camp cozy!

 

We boiled water, filled up our food rations and had dinner at about 21:54 that night. The energy given was quickly consumed and we decided to fall asleep quickly. Played a game of cards and had some laughs before we passed out both of us.

However.. this wasn't a summer tent.. not at all.. It was freezing cold and provided no insulation to the frost that started forming outside.. Our sleeping bags were supposed to "suffice" (they weren't winter bags) but at this point they seemed to fail horribly, becoming very very cold.. The night itself became insanely cold and we ended up sleeping with headwear on.

 

The next day we set out to Klemsbu. Bjørn-Ove rented snow-traps for his skis and we could start walking. Climbing the mountain was a series of valleys, first going very steeply up, then down, then up, then down, then up, then down... The sun was really hot this day, no skies anywhere and a full mountain sun made us very glad we brought suntan-lotion.

Walking was a very sweaty affair now, and with every wipe of sweat we became less protected by the suntan-lotion. Wary of this however, we applied it several times and kept moist by drinking a lot.

After about 4 hours of walking up, then down, then up again, then down again and then up again, we arrived at Klemsbu. A very friendly and nice couple volunteered here selling waffles and cocoa. It was expensive, but we decided we could afford it after all the work. Had two waffles with sugar on them and got an extra one for free since it had been overfried.

Klemsbu

We took a rather long pause at Klemsbu and decided to go to the top of one of the nearby mountains afterwards. We left the snowsleds by the cabin and went up with only a light pack. The view from the top was gorgeous! The visibility was crystal clear, several hundred km's of visibility.. a great day for mountaineering! :)

 

Roald Amundsen on my skis!

 

Once we took some pictures and enjoyed the view we skied down and started the descent from the mountain by going on the opposite side of it as we had gone the last time. Lot of steep hills here..

It's called "Idyll" 

I found a great way to get down the hills was to sit on my snowsled and just let it drift me down.. this however produced a great speed and my GPS later showed i had reached a neckbreaking 54 km/h..

 

Not all the rides ended with success though...

 

On this particular run i veered off to the right into some suspicious-looking snow.. turns out it was just a heapload of animal tracks (i thought it might be a river or something just waiting to quench me - so i decided to stop the joyride.

 

After some walking we were tired, getting hungry (waffles with sugar on top only lasts for so long) so we decided to make camp. To try and get some experience from it we started digging with our newly bought snowshovel. We decided to dig about 1.5 metres down and use the snow we dug up to build a snow wall over our fortification. So we walked a bit further until we found a suitable hill. It quickly appeared obvious that we should have had two shovels. Also, it wouldn't have hurt to have had a larger shovel - it would probably have made the whole thing take a lot less time. It would however have weighed more, so .. it's something to pick up again on the next training run.

After about 2 hours of digging we were ready (it's a big tent) - we found a nice combination of one person digging and the other one stacking to be very efficient. And at last - our new home was ready to be used! I stacked some more for the wall while Bjørn-Ove started digging the ditch inside. One thing we were worried about was wether or not the fortification we had produced would act as a cold-hole.. only time would tell...

 

Digging is great fun, Bjørn-Ove announces

 

 
Our new home - ready to be lived in!

 

 
Base camp

So beautiful in Finse!!

 

 

 

firing up to cook dinner..

 

Me - phooning.. 

 

 
Planning tomorrow's activities.. cozyness defined!! :D 

Time spanned and it was time to say goodnight.. when i went out, i suddenly saw these skies coming...

 

Sure enough, it was bad weather and it was moving towards our camp at a quick rate...

The night was very VERY cold, our sleeping bags were too thin for this kind of conditions. The tent also had no preparations for cold weather and was very well vented. This made condensation somewhat less, but also made the cold easier to feel. All in all it was a very cold night. Didn't sense much of the wind either although it was blowing a lot!

 

The next morning, the tent showed signs of the cold.

 
As did our skis

 

Snowsleds looked cold as well... 

 

 

Cooking breakfast

 

 
Enjoying tent life :)

 

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Morning sun through the fog thicketh..

Packing for departure

Heading out.. it was a cold morning and i had been freezing all night long in my sleeping bag so i decided to suit up.

Bjørn-Ove found time to take some snapshots during our trip

 

 
Much like painting... 

 

 

 

Coming down to the hotel i sent off the day's quota of SMS - there were no coverage on the mountain. We rested there for a while and decided to go find Appelsinhytta.

 

Started by crossing the lake just next to Finse, then moving towards the glacier. Appelsinhytta should be just at the ridge of the glacier. On the way we met this autistic boy who were quite the talkative one.. his parents were nowhere to be found.

Technical rest after climbing 70% of the mountain

That's overhanging show there.. ready to fall down and crush everything in it's path. Walking up the ridge was not without it's dangers.

 

 
The view to Finse.

 

 

This was as far as we came this time.. The GPS showed there were 900 metres to go forward but we couldn't see any cabin anywhere. That's why we decided to go back. The weather was acting up again and typical whiteout-clouds were forming and coming in strong. We had maybe 20 minutes before the entire area would be covered in whiteness... Too dangerous to continue anyways, with the rotten snow that was forming on top of the mountain we would have risked releasing an avalanche...

 

 
Back at the hotel. The snowsled stood here for the duration of our Appelsinhytta quest. That's what i love about Finse.. you can leave your stuff in free sight and nobody will mess around with it :) Good old norwegian spirit!

 

 

 

 

Bjørn-Ove suffered some serious solar burns on his face.. I was more lucky.

 

 
Last sight of Finse.. train approached shortly and we loaded our snowsleds. On the way home some train had torn down an overhanging electricity line so we drove in queue from Asker to Oslo. Took it's time but time we had.. in great abundance..

 

I got some pretty nasty sores on my feet, i need to buy new shoes for my winter skis. I want to get the Alfa Skarvet ones though as i've heard only positive things about them, so i've decided to save up for them this summer.

 

All in all the trip was a huge success! We got to walk a lot on our skis and made a bundle of new experiences, i loved it!