Our ski and hiking season
On the Ski and Top Tour line, you learn skiing techniques and safe driving while experiencing some of Norway's most beautiful winter mountains together with others.
On the Ski and Top Tour line, you get the opportunity to become confident in skiing in the winter mountains, while experiencing the magical nature of Lofoten. We spend many days together outdoors, where we learn skiing techniques, avalanche assessment, and how to make smart choices in steep terrain.
The line offers many exciting trips – both short day trips and longer overnight trips – that provide you with varied and unique nature experiences.
The best part about this is the community – sharing good experiences, challenges, and achievements with others who share the same interests. Here you become part of a team that supports each other, and together creates memories for life. Please note that to follow this path, you must have some skiing experience beforehand.
- loose key driving and technique
- off-road driving and technique
- Top tours on skis
- route selection and travel in the winter mountains
- snowfall training throughout the winter
- overnight accommodation in the snow
- Skiing in a larger alpine resort
- Emergency rescue operation underway
- climbing and rescue
- First aid
- use of step-irons and ice axes
Top hiking camp on Senja
The teacher
Ole Christian
If there is snow in the mountains, Ole Christian is there. He has worked for a long time as a teacher at the school, is a certified ski instructor through NORTIND and has a lifetime of experience with guiding in the mountains, skiing, snow and avalanche safety and safe route choices in the winter mountains.
Feel free to write if you have any questions: ole-christian@lofotenfolkehogskole.
Information
On this page you will find everything you need when you arrive at the school, both for living in the hostel and for the lessons, as well as good tips for other cool things you might want to bring along.
Former students tell
For me, the year in Lofoten was well worth the long flight home. I really enjoyed myself there; the social environment is something in itself and the fact that everyone you meet is interested in outdoor activities makes it very easy to make friends. In addition to this, the teachers are incredibly skilled and engaged, and that really makes a difference in how the trips and planning go; everything we did together was fun no matter the weather.
So of course I have to mention the area the school is located in, which is absolutely incredible beautiful. It is a completely special feeling to walk up to a mountain peak and see the sea, the mainland and countless other mountain peaks all around you. Lofoten was a completely amazing year for me and if I were to attend a folk high school again I would choose Lofoten.
You learn a lot by moving away from home, at least I did. Everything from washing clothes to figuring out how many times you can go on the mix in Kabelvåg without going broke. You learn at least how to be self-sufficient, which has been very beneficial to me lately. On the line (Climbing & Top Hiking) I learned a lot of new things even though I had been climbing for 4 years; this says a lot about the knowledge level of the teachers at the school.
Overall, I don't regret the choice I made after high school; I needed time to figure out what I wanted to study, but I figured it out during the year.
Misses Lofoten dearly and constantly
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Two weeks of skiing in Finnmark in April/May. We spend every night camping, and have all the equipment and supplies with us in our pulkers.
