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Day 76 – to Storvatnet Lake, Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjell National Park It was a good stay with Henrik in his yellow farmhouse. He is a contractor for the hydro plant in Sundallasora and rents his land out to a local sheep farmer. The farmhouse is split into three, his mother has an…

Day 73 to 77 – at Gjøra Staying at what is, when in high season, an AirBnB apartment. It is part of the yellow farmhouse in the picture below, and owned by Henrik and his family. When I was in Varanger I met a friend of his, who suggested I…

Day 72 – to Gjøra, Sunndal On Sunday when I arrived in Innerdalen I walked into Grasdalen, but not far. This morning I ventured further up the valley alongside the torrents of water rushing down it, in light rain that became steady, though the cloud was high so the surrounding…

Day 71 – at Innerdalen (part two) ..as I’m limited to 10 photos per post..

Day 71 – at Innerdalen A grand journey on foot today into ‘Norway’s Most Beautiful Valley’. On this autumnal day with the leaves on the trees making their own individual paths between yellow, orange and red, and all those colours in between, with the waterfalls bursting from heavy overnight showers,…

Day 70 – to Innerdalen I left a sleeping Rindal and drove twenty minutes or so to a trail access point for the Trollheimen mountains. Rindal had been a good overnight stay, despite its youths disturbing the peace one their incredibly noisy trail motorcycles until after midnight. The Thai food…

Day 69 – to Rindal The tiny mountain of Merkespynten at a paltry 341 metres was this morning’s goal. But sometimes even peaks this size can be far more challenging than they appear. The first couple of kilometres were just around the lake next to which I had parked last…

Day 68 – to Malvik There may seem limited appeal to a hike into the National Park here without paths and through wetland, but the place is virtually untouched. I was on the edge of the Park, so there are hunters here very occasionally, though I didn’t see any signs…

Day 67 – to Blåfjella-Skjækerfjella (north west entrance) Blåfjella-Skjækerfjella National Park is the third largest national park on the Norwegian mainland, and one of the largest remaining true wilderness areas. Part of it was established as a National Park as early as 1970, but enlarged greatly in 2004. Sami people…