What an amazing adventure! The spirit of exploration is clearly alive and well in India! Cross country skiing is a wonderful sport, and many skiers now seem to be choosing to hang up their downhill skis and escape the hustle and bustle of overcrowded slopes and blaring stereos. Switching to cross country has significant advantages from an environmental perspective too, of course. There is less need for lift infrastructure and the problems associated with piste contstruction (deforestation, creating avalanche corridors, snow compaction damaging underlying vegetation, pollution and energy use caused by snow cannons) are largely avoided. Sweden is a wonderful place to go cross-country skiing, and I’d recommend the trails around the beautiful area of Grovelsjon in the west.