Flydalsjuvet view point

Due to the debacle with the unmanned reception, by the time we had made the 2Km hike back to town, with our walking gear we were running very late for shop; arriving only 1 minute before its advertised closing time of 16:00. Luckily we weren’t shoed out, but had to compress our shopping substantially. Throwing all sense of forward planning out of the window we grabbed some food for our immediate needs and then headed up the mountain.

Shortly a light to medium drizzle set in, requiring that we don our waterproof jackets. Initially we wound our way up the road, until footpaths became available to us. It was at this point that we realised that Norwegians seem to have a very different slant on public foot paths than back home. At this time of year at least, most of the “paths” we used were in effect full flowing streams in addition to being extremely steep.

By around 17:30 we had reached a view point overlooking the fjord from around 350 (vertical) meters above. We put together some sandwiches with the things we had bought in the supermarket, and used our picnic blankets to keep dry (sitting on one, using the other to keep the rain off our legs).

The path down to the some of the viewing positions is quite steep and treacherous.Weiterlesen