Nordic Off-Track Skiing
Tracks and Trails specialise in hut-to-hut Nordic off-track ski tours.
These trips are a wonderful experience that blends challenge with adventure. This style of skiing is simply cross-country skiing away from marked and pressed trails.
Our Nordic off-track ski tours in Norway take guests into untracked terrain through the arctic wilderness and through a land carved out by glaciers. Skiing across frozen lakes, wide open plateaus where the reindeer roam.
Wilderness Adventure Travel
Skiing off-track uses many of the techniques of classic style cross-country ski track touring. The emphasis is firmly on travelling, turning and controlling speed in a variety of snow types. Nordic off-track skis and equipment are a little different though. They skis are wider, the boots chunkier, sturdier and warmer.
On our hut-to-hut tours guests carry everything for the week in their rucksacks. This complete autonomy, in our view, is a great way to reset and guests discover they can survive simply with what they are carrying on their backs.
Nordic Off-track Skiing Highlights
Get off the beaten track and ski in arctic wilderness
Experience ski heritage with true hut-to-hut Nordic touring
Stay in amazing places; remote, inaccessible mountain cabins
Develop and expand your ski touring skills and techniques
Go Low Impact and carry your own kit
Nordic Off-Track Ski Touring Kit
On these adventures guests use waxing skis together with climbing skins. Pro tips on how to get the most from skis as well as managing kit, food and clothing in a Nordic mountain environment are all included. Curious, Nordic Ski Touring: Head Off-Track This Winter gives a the low-down about this type of ski adventure.
To understand more about the freedom of Nordic off-track skiing, our story Crossing the Hardangavidda will help paint the picture.
Our Frequently Asked Questions give lots of detail about the different types of equipment used.