Halfway there

Leaving Vinstra was even more difficult than I thought it could be. In the end, it took about 2.6 kilometres of walking to get back to the Gudbrandsdalsleden path. But it was some climb. Just over 320 metres of it.

After that, the rest of the morning was very much as I remembered the path through the valley. Even the upland areas are very, very wet and boggy. But it's not continuous, and there are delightful sections of forest path that wind in and out and up and down along the edges of farms and above the roads. At the end, it was several kilometres of just a straight ashphalt road.

Today marks the halfway point of the way from Oslo to Trondheim. There are several places that lay claim to being the halfway point, but they are all places that I passed today. It seems to me that much of this is traditional rather than based on any factual measurement of the distance.

Tonight, I am in Kvam, staying in the same campground that I was in 12 years ago. It is behind the Kvam church, which is also a Commonwealth war graves cemetery for British Army soldiers killed here during the Second World War.Read more