Geiranger to Linge

Today was a long day of doing all the things! We started off by hiking from camp up to Storsæterfossen. It was only about 3km up, but it was pretty steep but manageable as it was mostly rock steps (so it was a lot of steps!) when we woke up there were low clouds on the tops of the mountains, but clear down lower and we could see the town and fjord for the first time! About halfway up to the falls we walked through a sheep farm with all the sheep! They were so silly and making such a racket when we got there. We took a break there and a family came through and the dad was like look at the goats!! Which made me laugh as they were definitely sheep!

Then when we got closer to the waterfall we went up into the clouds! So it was foggy at the falls, but still pretty nice. It was cold out, it said 2C when we left camp so I wore my warm pants and layers and that was a mistake! It was so humid and it was so hot hiking up there!! I had to take them all off, except the pants which I couldn’t…and then when we took a break had to put everything back on as it was freezing! No more wearing warm pants hiking for me! We still have not figured out the correct layers combination for hiking here…but maybe tomorrow we will!

After the hike we walked down to town a bit and along this waterfall trail there and the river/falls were so crazy after all the rain! It was pretty fun, but we didn’t go the whole way into town as we were tired and needed to head out soon. We ate lunch by the river then back to camp and off we went!

First up was to the viewpoint from yesterday and the sun had come out and it was gorgeous!! Then over to a viewpoint on the other side of town looking back at Geiranger and that was gorgeous as well! And had a nice waterfall on the viewing platform! There was so much traffic up to the first viewpoint above town, luckily not as much after leaving town, and after the second viewpoint it was back to almost no one else on the road. I am so glad we are off season as I cannot imagine how awful busy it is on the high season! That would be annoying trying to drive these narrow windy hairpin turn roads with a ton of traffic!

Then continued on to the ferry at Eidsdal which was the end of the scenic route for us. We could have gone about another hour on, but then the road was closed and we would have to come back the hour and continue on which would have been a lot. I am sure it would have been gorgeous, but so were the stops on the road we took!Read more