4th
August 2015
Rain, snow, and
wild camping
After a great
nights sleep, we woke up to find that Torunn had a great spread on the table
for breakfast, and hot coffee brewing !
Perfect. It was quite overcast, and the weather forecast was not too
promising with heavy rain for the trip north.
But with a start like that breakfast, we were in good shape, and
eventually managed to stop chatting, pack our stuff back into the car, and head
out down the narrow track. We really enjoyed seeing Rolf and Torunn again – It
is always good to catch up with friends.
And their little summer retreat is just gorgeous. Thank you both very much.
Before we left
Larvik we went to a gas (LPG) distributor Rolf had mentioned to us, and he was
able to fill our cooking gas bottle which was getting a bit low, and then we
set off north, taking the smaller (non toll) roads 40 and 35, up through
Eidsfoss and Hokksund, by which time the clouds had descended and it was
raining heavily. The next hour or two was just heavy rain as we climbed up on
to the Hardangervidda – This is the Hardanger Plateau, the largest National
Park in Norway, at about 1200 m ASL.
Up near Gol we
had a rescue helicopter flying along beside us for a while – I think on a
training exercise. We started to see quite a lot of snow still by the road, and
climbed up through Geilo where there is skiing, before reaching Haugastol with
the road still climbing. By now we could
see very little due to the low cloud, but it was very reminiscent of the
Scottish Highlands on a rainy day. We
passed a lake where there were hundreds of small cairns that people had built,
and shortly after that, right up at the top at about 1250 m, we stopped beside
the road for the night. We managed to
find
Rest of the photos are here :- https://picasaweb.google.com/110185357936043625130/0319LarvikToHardangervidda?authkey=Gv1sRgCKj5-uDS-5nZAg
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