I prefer to get by on a reasonable minimum, both light- and cost-wise. I guess when you’ve spent 5000 kroner (more than $500) on a headlamp you really want to use it. Some people even use them for an extra boost on the lighted trails.
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Some of the locals, especially the competition-minded, go in for super-powerful (and expensive) lights that throw thousands of lumens (there’s one model that goes to 12-thousand, that is), sometimes blinding those of us of lesser luminosity. So a good headlamp, or better yet a selection of headlamps (the BD Storm is approximately the 13th headlamp in our household collection, not counting hand lights and lanterns), is an essential part of the Vitamin Ski cure.
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About 10 of the 50 km are lighted, but only in the evening from late afternoon until 11PM, and a lot of the best trails are on the higher terrain and unlighted. If the snow is too thin or the trails are too icy, studded running shoes take the place of skis. The hardest thing about it is getting out the door-once I’m out there it’s usually at least rewarding and sometimes downright delightful to be out and moving over snow, either by whatever light is available or using a headlamp.
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When I get home from work, or after dinner, or before breakfast, I can grab a pair of skis and slip into darkness for an hour or two. But I am fortunate to have a cross-country ski trail passing within 100 meters of the front door, my entry to the 50 km network of groomed trails in Estenstadmarka, the city forest park on the east side of the city. On the shortest days of the year here in Trondheim, the sun is up for a little more than four hours, and for a month on either side of winter solstice I leave for work and come home in darkness on roads and bike paths lit by streetlamps. When friends and family back home ask me how I get through the long, dark winter nights in Norway, I usually answer in two words: “Vitamin Ski”!