Oslo, Norway, on January 15, 2025, showing a person sledding on the snow before falling down.

Norway’s largest ski resort. “He was so frustrated that, for yet another year, there was no snow, he immediately booked to come to Scandinavia instead.” The exasperation is understandable.

I'm what you might call a snow tourist, a habit that started while ... Snowhotel Kirkenes was our first stop, followed by a drive from northern Norway to Finland where we went skiing in Lapland.

We had someone call us while on a ski holiday in Italy,” Ben Nyberg of tour operator skiScandinavia tells me as we zoom along the road towards Trysil, Norway’s largest ski resort. “He was so ...