Nordic Off-Track Skiing
Tracks and Trails specialise in hut-to-hut Nordic off-track ski tours.
These trips are a wonderful experience that blends challenge with adventure. This style of skiing is simply cross-country skiing away from marked and pressed trails.
Our Nordic off-track ski tours in Norway take guests into untracked terrain through the arctic wilderness and through a land carved out by glaciers. Skiing across frozen lakes, wide open plateaus where the reindeer roam.
Nordic Off-Track Skiing at a Glance
Our latest film follows a group of beginners during a fantastic week on the Hardangervidda in Norway.
If you are new to Nordic off-track ski touring, this film gives a great overview of how the technique differs from skiing in classic cross-country ski tracks. Watch the group journey from gaining confidence on groomed trails to the thrill of creating their own tracks through a stunning winter wilderness. Along the way, we share practical tips on skiing technique, packing your rucksack, staying safe in the mountains, choosing accommodation, and much more.
Wilderness Adventure Travel
Skiing off-track uses many of the techniques of classic style cross-country ski track touring. The emphasis is firmly on travelling, turning and controlling speed in a variety of snow types. Nordic off-track skis and equipment are a little different though. They skis are wider, the boots chunkier, sturdier and warmer.
On our hut-to-hut tours guests carry everything for the week in their rucksacks. This complete autonomy, in our view, is a great way to reset and guests discover they can survive simply with what they are carrying on their backs.
Nordic Off-Track Skiing Highlights
Get off the beaten track and ski in arctic wilderness
Experience ski heritage with true hut-to-hut Nordic touring
Stay in amazing places; remote, inaccessible mountain cabins
Develop and expand your ski touring skills and techniques
Go Low Impact and carry your own kit
Nordic Off-Track Ski Touring Kit
On these adventures guests use metal edged touring skis together with climbing skins. Pro tips on how to get the most from skis as well as managing kit, food and clothing in a Nordic mountain environment are all included. Curious, Nordic Ski Touring: Head Off-Track This Winter gives a the low-down about this type of ski adventure.
To understand more about the freedom of Nordic off-track skiing, our story Crossing the Hardangavidda will help paint the picture.
Our Frequently Asked Questions give lots of detail about the different types of equipment used.
Off-Track Ski Kit Q&A
Our interview with off-track ski instructor and mountain leader Ewan Martin answers all the questions we're asked most frequently.
- How are off-track skis different from the track version?
- What do the boots and bindings look like?
- How do metal-edged skis differ from other skis?
- Is that different from a crown ski or skin ski?
- What are kick skins?
Choosing the right equipment can seem a little confusing but this short guide helps answer them.
