Birken

Visiting Maihaugen, Norway’s biggest outdoor museum

When traveling to Lillehammer 🇳🇴 to ski the famous Birkebeinerrennet, you definitely should visit the outdoor museum Maihaugen. Such a beautiful place to go for a walk and experience Norway’s history. It is right next to the Olympic Museum and only a few minutes per foot from Lillehammer’s center.

Prepare for Birken with Marit Bjørgen and Martin Sundby

In 2022 the famous Norwegian Worldloppet race Birkebeinerrennet is going to take place again after the cancellation of past winter. On 18th and 19th March 2022 again thousands of skiing enthusiasts are invited to make their way over the mountains between Lillehammer and Rena. The registrations for 2022’s Birkebeinerrennet are already open and for all […]

WinterBirken QR is going on the finish lane

Only five days remain to finish this year’s skiing event from Birkebeinerrennet. The Norwegian health authorities did not allow the real mass start race, so the organizers came up with an open track event: The WinterBirken QR. Alongside the course five QR-Codes are placed, which the participants have to scan and prove that they have […]

Birkebeinerrennet 2021 forced to cancellation

Birken AS is, due to the strong official covid-restrictions, forced to cancel this years Birkebeinerrennet. But there still is a chance, to collect a stamp in your Worldloppet Passport: To give more people the possibility to enter WinterBirken QR, its period is extended with two weeks, to the original date for Birkebeinerrennet, March 21. In […]

Birken opens registrations with backup guarantee

Today our Norwegian friends have opened the registrations for the Birkebeinerrennet 2021 at the end of March. The organizers are working and planning, that the Birken Festival can take place in a save way. If the race will take place on several days, with wave starts or individual start, with a limited starter’s field etc. […]

IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION: Birken Skifestival cancelled due to Coronavirus

Here you can find the news that was posted few minutes ago on the official website of the Norwegian race website to announce the cancellation of the race that should have taken place in 10 days: Birken Skifestival 2020 is cancelled Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the norwegian health authorities has decreed the […]