Contributors

Ola Njå

Owner and operator

Interaction designer from the University of Oslo. He has worked on user experience and product development for many years, and has previously developed other digital teaching resources for primary and lower secondary school. Several years as a trip leader, and as a trainer of new trip leaders in the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT).

Contribution: Owns and runs Snuitide. Built the technical solution from feasibility study to launch, and contributed input and experience on user experience, user testing, information architecture and content quality assurance. Has taken many of the photographs on the site, and some of the film. Wrote about hygiene on trips.

Gina Wigestrand

Editor (founding)

Subject teacher in sport sciences from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, with ten years in upper secondary school. An active trip leader and course leader in the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) over many years, teaching courses across different branches of friluftsliv. She rarely sits still, and is happiest on top of a mountain.

Contribution: Was editor when Snu i tide was made as a teaching resource in 2020–2022, with responsibility for content and development. Wrote about clothing, overnight stays, navigation, the Outdoor Recreation Act, the value of friluftsliv and large parts of the teacher's guide.

Bjørn Henrik Stavdal Johansen

Board member · nature guide

A trained nature guide with a deep commitment to communicating about nature and friluftsliv. He has worked on public education about large carnivores through Besøkssenter Rovdyr Flå. He produces courses, informational videos and outdoor communication, and presents a nature programme for children on TV2. An ambassador for Norsk Friluftsliv, and active on social media as Naturveilederen.

Contribution: Wrote texts on equipment, campfires, overnight stays, and animals and tracks. Made films about campfires, the rucksack and winter clothing.

Elisabeth Enoksen

Board member · UiT The Arctic University of Norway

University lecturer at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Alta campus. She teaches various subjects in friluftsliv on the foundation year and the bachelor's programme in arctic friluftsliv and nature guiding. Broad experience from the coast, forest, mountains, winter friluftsliv and friluftsliv close to home.

Contribution: Wrote about traditional friluftsliv, reindeer herding and Sámi culture, and about sustainability, leave-no-trace travel and nature conservation.

Torstein Michael Dynna

Board member · subject teacher in sport sciences

Subject teacher in sport sciences from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, with 12 years in upper secondary school. Several years' experience as an officer in the Armed Forces. A teacher in upper secondary school and network leader for teachers of sport sciences and physical education in Vestfold and Telemark county.

Hilde Grøtte

Food and wild plants

An expert in useful plants, she wrote the trail-cooking cookbook *#eteute*. A trip leader and course leader in Stavanger Turistforening and the Norwegian Mycological and Useful Plants Association, with experience as an outdoor-school teacher at Frikvarteret. She runs courses and team-building on cooking outdoors.

Contribution: Wrote about food, and about food from nature — wild plants.

Inger Wallem Krempig

Traditional and Sámi friluftsliv

Senior lecturer in friluftsliv at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Alta campus. She teaches on the bachelor's in arctic friluftsliv and nature guiding, and nature, health and movement on the kindergarten teacher programme. She researches children in nature and traditional knowledge. She has contributed to several academic books and articles, and communicated friluftsliv through the television series *Villmarksbarna*.

Contribution: Wrote about traditional friluftsliv, reindeer herding and Sámi culture, and about sustainability, leave-no-trace travel and nature conservation.

Jannicke Høyem

Trip guiding · Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

Senior lecturer in friluftsliv at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH). She has worked for the Red Cross Rescue Corps, the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) and the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. Broad experience of travel and stays in the winter mountains. Her academic focus: subject didactics, practical knowledge, and the relationships between people and nature — through sense of place, quality of life, health and sustainability.

Contribution: Wrote the chapter on trip guides and trip leaders.

Lars Peters

Repair and maintenance

An all-rounder who loves everything outdoors. Running in forest and mountains, riding planks when the mountains turn white. He studied friluftsliv at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and works in the travel industry and as an outdoor-school teacher in summer and winter. For his 18th birthday he was given a sewing machine — and his tailoring hobby has since grown into a small business that extends the life of outdoor gear in the Telemark region.

Contribution: Wrote the entire chapter on repair and maintenance, with step-by-step guides for repairing clothing and equipment.

Linda Hallandvik

Avalanches · Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Senior lecturer at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal campus. She supervises students on the bachelor's and master's in friluftsliv. Main fields: guiding on glacier and snow. She recently completed the qualification path to Ski Guide through Nortind. She researches learning, leadership and decision-making in complex and dynamic environments.

Contribution: Wrote about avalanches.

Lærke Søndergaard Stewart

Plants and nature

A biologist with a doctorate on plants and climate in the Arctic. She works at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) in Bø, at the Centre for Sustainable Transition. She has studied plants in Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Alaska and Peru. She has also studied friluftsliv at USN and works occasionally as a ski instructor.

Contribution: Wrote about plants and nature.

Odd Lennart Vikene

Friluftsliv pedagogy · Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

He works at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, teaching bachelor's students in friluftsliv. He has taught sport and friluftsliv in primary, upper secondary and higher education. His academic expertise is directed towards leadership and learning in sport and friluftsliv, as well as nature and health, winter friluftsliv, and friluftsliv, culture and society.

Contribution: Wrote about friluftsliv pedagogy.

Oddvin Lund

Nordic skating and nature management

Thirty years' background as a nature manager responsible for nature conservation and the right to roam (allemannsretten) in the friluftsliv organisations — the last 10 years centrally in DNT. Now retired. He started a Nordic skating group among volunteers in Skiforeningen in 2004; the group grew into Foreningen turskøyting in 2020, where he is a trip leader and teaches theory courses.

Contribution: Wrote about Nordic skating.

Sindre Kolbjørnsgard

Photography and film

Adventurer, photographer and film-maker. He has carried out a number of expeditions to some of the world's highest mountains, walked the length of Norway, and is the fastest to climb all the peaks over 2,000 metres in Norway. He cares deeply about the climate, and shares outdoor life on Instagram and YouTube.

Contribution: Made the films on navigation — compass bearings, grid references, contour intervals.