One of my favorite books as a kid was Snow Treasure, which involves kids sledding the country's gold bullion past unsuspecting Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Treasure

It's almost impossible to avoid being harassed into going cross country skiing in Norway. Accept and assimilate.

Heh, that's something I think I'd like, too bad I live in a more temperate zone, we're not even assured of getting a serious snow in any given winter. And as I remembered, apropos of it, the sport of biathlon, cross country skiing + shooting, two activities that work at physiological cross purposes, originated in Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon