Folgefonna glacier (Norway), 1-9 August 2015

Day eight. Conquering Bjørndalsnuten.

The blue line shows our track. The arrows show direction of travel. The tent icon shows our camping spot. Shift-click on the track link will open it in nakarte.me.

This was our last day. We left our stuff at the camp and went up Bjørndalsnuten. We went past a little village of mountain huts. One can rent these huts for the weekend, to enjoy fishing or walking. However this is quite far away from the nearest roads. We guessed that you would have to spend around 5 hours climbing on narrow paths to reach this place.

We are walking up by a little canyon.

We reached the valley head. Now the climb begins. We will be climbing on the right-hand side. The ridge on the left is Juklavasskruna which is a knife-edge arête and offers some great scrambling. We did not have time to go there. In addition we did not like overhanging snow which we spotted on the ridge.

It took us a while to cross the stream. It was not very wide but quite fast. The snowbridge is not very trustworthy.

The climb up proved quite technical. We tried to avoid snow fields as they were quite steep and we did not take ropes/ice axes with us. According to the internet reports, the climb should have been straightforward, and we forgot that there is so much snow this year. We had to scramble a couple of short but wet, slippery and steep pitches. The climb at the top part is much less steep.

The views from the top were breathtaking. Our way up passed by all of these lakes. Our camp is at the furthest lake.

The Juklavasskruna ridge.

A hurried lunch. We have to start descending soon, we should get down to Rosendal by the evening. The snow-white dome at the back of the picture is the Folgefonna glacier which we crossed in the beginning of our trip.

Panorama from the Bjørndalsnuten summit.

We descended on snow fields. This was so much faster and simpler than scrambling. Victor and Lova belayed Sonya from below and were ready to catch her should she slip (she did a couple of times and the belay worked well). The snow was quite soft after mid-day which made our descend easier.


Ringerike waterfall. We have just descended a steep path on the left-hand side of the waterfall. At the bottom of the waterfall, the path became less steep and eventually lead to a road.	This is our last waterfall nearer our camping spot, less than half an hour from Rosendal.

The green carpet in the forest by the waterfall.

Our camping spot across the river from the main road. A very nice spot, particularly when the sun comes out. We tried to dry our boots and socks but we did not have enough time.

Day nine. Bergen

We got to the ferry terminal in Rosendal, caught a boat to Bergen and in less than two hours were in the city centre. We left out backpacks in the left luggage at the railway station and went to explore the city.

The blue line shows our track. The arrows show direction of travel. The tent icon shows our camping spot, and the ship icon shows the ferry terminal. Shift-click on the track link will open it in nakarte.me.

Slackline in the park in Bergen.

We are sending little ships to sail on a "river" in granite embankment. Bergen is very good at keeping families busy.

Bryggen i Bergen with commercial buildings which are quite long, up to 50-60 metres.


Narrow gaps between the buildings are paved with wood. There are lots of little shows and restaurants here.	Sonya and a troll.

Famous Bryggen cod with a wise "face".

There are a few hills in Bergen. We went up this hill on our way back to the railway station.

We found ourselves in very different Bergen. Different buildings, different pavements, no tourists. It is however inhabited. Most buildings are made of wood. It is reminiscent of Finland or maybe some villas on Karelian Isthmus. Unfortunately we were in a hurry to catch the plane back and could not spend more time here.

Graffiti a la Banksy. Zoom in to see a boy who is singing to wake up the cat.

Little streets go up the hill.

This was the end of our trip to Norway. We got back to the railway station, collected our packs and 30 min were in the aiport We flew back to England, dropped Lova off at Oxford and were back at home in York before midnight.

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