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Lake Selbu through the four seasons
Each season changes the landscape in front of the house, and the light even more so. Here is what awaits you, depending on when you come.
Winter
Around 21 December, the sun rises at about 10 am and sets at about 2:30 pm. From mid-November to the end of April, Selbuskogen maintains its cross-country ski trails, including a floodlit loop for skiing in the evening. Out come the snowshoes, people go ice fishing on the lake (a burbot of almost 6 kg has been caught here), and on nights of strong solar activity, you can watch for the northern lights.
Spring
The days grow longer very quickly: around 20 March, day and night are equal. You can still ski at Selbuskogen until Easter, then the snow melts and nature wakes up.
Summer
Around 21 June, the sun rises at about 3 am and sets at about 11:30 pm; from late May to mid-July, it never gets truly dark. This is the season for hiking, swimming and kayaking (kayaks can be rented in Selbu). Fishing for trout and Arctic char requires a licence bought online at inatur.no, free for under-16s. Cloudberries ripen in July and August.
Autumn
The birches turn yellow and orange, and the forest fills with bilberries and lingonberries. Fishing is closed from 15 September to 15 October in the lake and the Nea, during spawning. Dark nights return, and with them the first northern lights.
All year round, Selbu's heritage
Selbu Church, in Mebonden, is a stone church built around 1150. Right next to it, the Selbu museum (Selbu Bygdemuseum) holds more than 350 knitted pieces: this is where, in the 1850s, the famous Selbu rose of Norwegian mittens was born, still found today at Selbu Husflidscentral. In the mountains, Kvernfjellet was probably the largest millstone quarry in the Nordic countries, worked from the 17th to the early 20th century.
Trondheim less than an hour away
Trondheim, with its Nidaros Cathedral and its houses on stilts along the Nidelva river, is less than an hour away by road.
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