Rest in the men's company

There is such a strange letter in the Swedish language - "A" with a circle at the top, read as "O". To the whole world she became famous thanks to the film "Fucking Åmal" of one director with an obscene surname, and the town of Omal too became famous for him. I even went there somehow to make sure: no, the master of the depressing genre was not up against the truth, well, the pure Swedish Bobruisk. But let's forget about Omal (in huge Sweden it is full of such cities where except for local residents, nobody visited). It's about another place on the letter Å.

Ore. Here it is worthwhile to go, but not in February, when the Swedes and nearby Finns had a "ski vacation", and in March. In some Austria there is already slush, the "teapots" are dirty at the chair lifts, and in Ore - the high season. The city is only at the latitude of Arkhangelsk, not the Arctic, but on the slopes of Mount Orekuttan, where the highest point of the ski slope in Europe north of the Alps, beautiful snow lasts almost until summer.

The most interesting thing is to go here in the men's company, by car through Finland, on the Stockholm ferry duty-free drinks and then drive five hundred kilometers to the north, marveling at the desolate landscapes. It is possible and with the family, of course - but not that. Women refuse to leave the ice-covered summit (which is very wise), children generally are always dragging somewhere to the toboggan slide and demented deer. No, this is a place for ruthless sports - to the point of trembling in the knees, to exhaustion, just to reach home and get into the hot sauna.

It will cost three kopecks - and who said that ski holidays should be expensive? It does not matter that someone will have to sleep on the upper level - there were no double beds in the army! Food is purchased for the whole week at a supermarket on the outskirts of Stockholm, anyway this Viking kitchen in three and a half local restaurants is prepared from the same unfrozen semi-finished products . It's not possible to show off in a ski suit "haute couture" here: the perfect overall for Ore resembles Welder's robe, because at the top there are often real Lapland snowstorms .

However, the Scandinavians themselves consider Ore a place of family rest . In four villages around Mount Orekuttan there are slopes for every taste, and Ore-Björnen is entirely "imprisoned" for children's skiing . But unlike the same Alps, you do not have to take a long bus ride or stomp your skis on the shoulder to get to the ski lift on the "real" slope . The system of trails linking the villages is made so convenient that skis can be worn immediately at the porch of your house - and straight to the "cabinbanan", the only ski lift in Scandinavia . In my men's company during last year's arrival in Ora was a friend in his forty on skis never standing . because of him we settled in Björnen - suddenly he and I'll be spending time with preschoolers . Already by lunchtime the first day I met our neophyte on the slope "above the clouds" . Happy, who forgot about all the problems that remained at the bottom, he was carried down, and his riding style was unlikely to enthrall of the real skier . But who cares? But in the evening he fried us a potato with Lithuanian lard! In general, if you want to know a friend in an extreme situation - a guy in Ora, feel free to risk . At least for a week .