Training Log Archive: olsoran

Travelling

And just for the record Krkonose stats according to Garmin
Total distance: 144.3 kms
Total ascent: 4017m
Time taken: 22 hrs 19m over 6 days

Vasaloppet next year anyone?

C • Vasaloppet 4

Krkonose #5: Cerna Hora-Pec to Zacler.
Couldn't see a thing from the get go. A good day for fog. At least the first couple of hours anyway. Brightened up about lunchtime and all was well, except snow was very sparse late on...skiing on thin ice as it were. Single coffee stop in one of the boudas. Real end of season feeling.
Everything closed in Zacler when we got there. What do Czechs do on a Saturday afternoon?

Good trip but could have been great one month earlier with more consistent snow. Nice to sample some real XCski outside Scandi, Swiss, Italian locations. Norway still wins hands down.

Krkonose #4: Spindelruv Mlyn to Cerna Hora-Pec.
Mighty funny names they have for places round here.
Top day for snow and sun. Iffy snow to start with but got better and then only intermittent problems.
Long day but brilliant and picturesque snow. A few disasters on the occasional downhill pistes though.
The Giant Mountains are worth a visit.

Krkonose #3: Harrachov to Horni Misecky
Unexpectedly great snow for a semi continuous climb up from 700m to Visecka Bouda at 1200m. Brief stop for a coffee before real Scottish mountain weather conditions set in for the further climb to the Polish border to see the great view that wasn't. Then ground out a long traverse in almost white out to a late lunch stop at Vrbatova Bouda. Then it all cleared to great Czech views and in time for a superb run down through a switchback of turns to Horni Misecky. A little tired to make more than a token effort at the steep downhill pistes late on. Sun finally came out. :-)

Krkonose #2: Jizerka to Harrachov
Snow over night provided a decent top up. Mix of decent cut trails and not today. Plenty of snow though and no real impact of slightly higher temperatures other than less glide than previous. Spent most of the day in Poland before crossing back into Czech rep. late on.
Worked hard today especially with the poorer glide.

Krkonose #1: Bedrichov to Jizerka
Cloudy and pretty much snowing all day long. Mostly good tracks today although plenty of fresh snow in them slowing things up. Small clumping problem as temps rose a little. Very much a black and white world.
Slightly sore left big toe but otherwise distance/time fairly comfortable.

Nice loop from Bedrichov village through nice pine forests, round two lakes and across a couple of dams. Not really high enough to have consistent snow throughout but almost all skiable. Cloudy today.
Three days of skiing last week has certainly helped. Now getting back some decent fluidity to technique in the tracks.
Begin Krkonose (Giant Mountains) Trail tomorrow.