Friluftsliv Nights: Headlamp Skiing

Many say they love autumn and the start of the winter season. At first, we can put on a warm sweater and enjoy the strong colors in the forest. Then we can light a fireplace, read books, go to the cinema, watch an indie film from the nineties and discuss it for hours afterwards – just as we see the first snow is falling outside.

And yes: there can certainly be something special about the months of November, December and January. But up here in the north – in Norrøna's home country of Norway – it gradually gets dark when you go to work and dark when you go home.

In the far north, the sun disappears completely below the horizon – and it becomes dark 24 hours a day. There is not enough light to practice your favorite activities in nature. But there is always light at the end of the tunnel. And long before you reach the end of the tunnel, you can use a modern headlamp.

Such headlamps are now so powerful that they turn night into day. You can go out into a darkened mountainside in November and skin to the top in the moonlight. Listen to the silence and your own pulse. And then, when you ski back down in the fresh snow and imagine that you are a professional slalom racer between the trees, you can light a candle in your own forehead.

A torch. The largest bonfire throughout the history of the world.

Today's headlamps erase all the old limitations in the autumn and winter season. Now we can cycle, hike, run, climb, go cross-country skiing or downhill skiing.

All year round.
Around the clock.
Because you are your own sunshine.