frozen face, sweaty pants and snow all over..

after a looong time, there was finally made a trip to mountains, to take out our cross country skies. A beautiful chance to take few special people, two cars, several bottles of moravian wine and on Friday afternoon say bye to the life in czech republic capital. Two cars, two racing pilots, one car without any map, the other one with a map older than my own grandpa. Way to Krkonose mountains was really everything, except smooth. At one time we took a wrong turn and instead of enjoying speed on highway we did a visit of a city Jicin (old and quite famous czech city). When we came back on highway, our second racing car (which was behind us before we took the wrong turn) was further on their way to the mountains.
Fortunately, they got lost with their special map, so we got in front of them again and were ruling the race till the end. When we arrived to Krkonose mountains, we were struggeling to let our luggages be picked up and taken up to the mountain (6km straight up to the mountain). Again, luck was on our side and a snowmobile took our luggages and then another one picked us in the middle of walking up. Usually, such snowmobiles needs to be paid with extra fee, but in time we arrived, the country house we supposed to sleep in had problems with their snowmobile, which made such a chaos in communication that at the end, we were delivered to our country house for free.
Having there hot tea and some of us warm soup, prepared us for bed after such racing time. Early in the morning (8am) a breakfast was prepared. We eat everything we could and dressed up for a day spent on cross country skies. What a marvelous time. The weather was not so great, but skiing in a nature, having good time in country houses offering delicous lunch was just marvelous experience. Using the second part of day to search for 'normal' ways instead of high hills and loong downs made us ready for dinner in our country house. After dinner we enjoyed an extra session of Activity game played till late night. After midnight we jumped to beds and slept again till our breakfast time. Weather of our second day was just perfect, sun and no falling snow. We used that day to ski with my friend Peter to the highest mountain in Czech Republic, Snezka. To get there was an olympic effort, as the wind which blows around Snezka is playing with your bodies like you would not weight a kilo. On our way back from Snezka, we stopped by Lucni Bouda (another country house) and had unbelievable delicious lunch. I also ordered a ginger tea. I liked that tea so much, that I tried to write down all ingredients we could recognize. I believe the tea is done so that you take ginger, peel it, grate it and pour it with hot water (like a classic tea), together with the ginger you also put to a cup pieces of apple, orange, blueberries, plum and lemon. Actually, you put there everything you find at your place and you might like in the tea.
Strengthened, we made our way back to Dvorska Bouda, which was the country house we lived in. We packed and waited for another snowmobile to take our luggages down. Part of our expedition walked down, another part, Peter and me took the skies and slided the mountain down in a bit faster way we expected. At the end, all of us met down the mountain, jumped to cars and in a chilled out manner we travelled to Prague, to slowly soak in our city lifes.

Here you can see photos from our artic Krkonose expedition