Summer time is vacation time, but not for us! While others are enjoying their well-deserved vacation and letting the sun shine on their heads, we are already in the middle of our next project. And that's far away from sunshine and hot temperatures at the moment, rather the rain has been falling on our heads for days. Well, the weather is anything but stable up here in the north. We spent the past three weeks in Norway high above Oslo to finalize our next track project.

While the Holmenkollen skijumping hill in Oslo has turned into an international hotspot of the ski jumping scene, its little brother "Midstubakken" is far less well known. Located just a few hundred meters from Oslo's landmark Holmenkollen, the Midtstuen winter sports facility offers perfect training conditions, especially for youngsters, and has become a valuable training center for the Norwegian Ski Association in recent years.

And that is exactly where our current assignment is taking us. The Midtstuen is anything but unknown to us. Last year we installed an inrun track on the normal hill as part of our first track upcycling project. The old track from Trondheim was revitalized and reinstalled on the normal hill at Midtstubakken. (Read the report from the track up cycling here -> bit.ly/3OabU8G)

Now the two smaller hills follow with a hill size of 44 and 66 meters, for us they are also the first two hills at Holmenkollen in the juniors area. The bigger one of them has now been completed in a construction period of almost ten days, in which we have been through a lot, from torrential rain to wind and sun. The smaller of the two will follow in September.

Our Norwegian project list is therefore getting longer and longer. We were allowed to equip the "Grand dame" of winter sports, the Holmenkollen hill, with our Mastertrack track in 2017, in 2022 and 2023 the two hills at Midtstuen followed.

"The two smallest hills at Midtstuen are still missing, but the Holmenkollen is slowly but surely firmly in "Riedel's" hands," smiles Peter Riedel while turning the last screw in the track module.

At this point we would like to thank the construction team on site for the perfect cooperation and also say a big THANK YOU to the Norwegian Ski Association for the trust. So many joint projects connect us immensely and we couldn't imagine a better collaboration.