Western Norway Sogndal area.

SOGNDAL: (Ski holiday Norway) Around Sogndal it is early skiing.

The valleys around the Sognefjord offer early November trips with low sun that cast magical shadows.

The easiest trip is to start at SIL Hytta in Hodlekve and go up towards Blåfjellet. After this tour, you also get a good overview and quickly select new tours that you just have to try. Here you can compose new trips endlessly and you never cease to be surprised by all the spectacular view experiences with steep or soft descents.
At Hodlekve ski center you can park the car and get up to the top of Blåfjell and enjoy the view down into the fjord on the other side. .
SOGNDAL HODLEKVE: Ski center with car park.
From the Hodlekve area you can also create your own trails in difficult terrain and find vantage points that few have experienced. The combination of deep fjords and steep mountain peaks with wildly changing weather through a dark winter day, gives a rare experience of raw unfiltered nature.

Sogndal Hodlekve

Sogndal has valleys in all directions where you always get a beautiful view as reward for the effort after climbing up the long tough slopes. As an aesthetic trip, the view is one of the most beautiful things you can experience; view with ice green fjords and frost blinding peaks on all sides.
This is one of the more rare wild mountain areas in Norway with good infrastructure for steep fun and other sporty nature experiences.

Many of the peaks around Sogndal require that certain steep sections must be forced with ski traps, over shorter periods. If you want to start cautiously, it’s best to cheat a bit with the lift in Hodlkve and then ski further upwards towards the north-west, until you see the fjord. After enjoying the view over a cup of hot toddy, you can make some great descents down to the starting point by the car park. If some of the ski team do not enjoy long trips at altitude, there is also a fantastic alpine facility with a warming room and children’s ski lifts. Well hidden, there are also some of the roughest snowy descents in Norway, which is one of the reasons why a mountain sports festival is organized every year, where the unofficial ski elite unfolds unrestrainedly with steep fun.

If you are planning a trip here, you can take a flight to Sogndal airport, an express bus from Oslo or hire a car from Avis or Hertz, with a beautiful drive on wild roads across Hemsedal from the east. If you really want to experience the wildness of the Sognefjord, it is recommended to take the fast boat from Bergen to Sogndal. Whether you have a hotel in Sogndal as your base or stay in camping cabins along the fjord, you have a short, decent drive, on beautiful roads, up to Hodlekve. This area is the salvation for those who can’t wait for the skiing winter to start, here the snow comes early already in November. In January – February it is usually very cold with a lot of storms, while the period April-May has some of the most beautiful nature experiences with green ice water in the fjords, fruit blooming, green grass and refreshing snow peaks. Our ski holiday in Sogndal is an exotic Norwegian ski holiday that makes the Swiss Alps seem boring.

Good trip.