Skeikampen is a
mountain located in
Gausdal Municipality in
Innlandet county,
Norway. The tall mountain is located about to the northwest of the village of
Svingvoll. The area is heavily dependent on recreation which is dominated by the Skeikampen Alpine Centre plus hundreds of
holiday cottages
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.
Attractions
The Skeikampen Alpine Centre is located on the montain and it offers both
ski lifts and
pistes. The first cross-country tourists arrived in 1895 and the first ski lift was built in 1959. The centre is now one of Norway's largest skiing facilities. The area also has an 18-hole
golf course. Tourists travel to
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...
, the regional transportation hub, before taking local transportation to Skeikampen. Local buses offer several daily bus departures to Skeikampen.
Etymology
The first element of the name is the
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...
word meaning "race course" suggesting that there may have been such a race track here in
medieval times
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire an ...
. The last element is the finite form of ''kamp'' which means "mountain".
See also
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List of mountains of Norway by height
There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ...
References
External links
Skeikampen websiteThon Skeikampen Resort website
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Gausdal
Mountains of Innlandet
Ski areas and resorts in Norway