Well, it's not Norway but the snows the same.
This was a 30 km ride that spanned gravel, icy hard snow on gravel and crusty sugar snow that felt like loose sand. I was in my granny gear on the horizontal for some of it and could feel the suspension fork bobbing up and down like an icebreaker. Good thing I had
Foreigner and
Boston on the IPOD!
The 26er is definitely not fast but so far delivers in all sorts of terrain.