When I was sitting at the computer in Astrid and Roar's house writing an e-mail to Julie, I looked up and saw a moose walking by in the marsh! There ended up being three or four moose. Later that evening when we were sitting down for dinner, I was telling Roar about the moose, and we looked up and a couple more showed up! Pretty amazing view from the house.
This photo appeared in the following ideotrope albums:
Sylan Mountains high traverse - I finished my Norwegian bicycle tour in Stj?rdal and spent three nights at Astrid and Roar's house. They treated me to wonderful food: mushroom soup with mushrooms they picked, blueberry crumble with blueberries they picked, moose that Roar helped hunt, and ice cream with cloudberry sauce from cloudberries that they picked. All the food was wonderful.
My last day in Scandinavia was spent doing a high traverse of the Sylan Mountains. Astrid and Roar invited their friend, Lise, as well, and the four of us drove for ~90 minutes SE of Stj?rdal to Nedalshytta where we started our hike. At the end of the day Roar figured that we had walked 35-40km and done 1500m of climbing, a wonderful way to spend the day before a long day of airplanes and airports. Along the way I think we climbed the three highest in Sylan Mountains, one of which is Storsylen, the highest peak in the range.
We started (and ended) the hike at one the famous Norwegian backcountry huts though this hut was a bit fancier than most. It's accessible via road half the year. The hut used to be located lower, but the power company built a dam and flooded the old hut location. At part of the new arrangement, the power company supplies free electricity to the hut so everything in the hut is run by electricity (as opposed to wood and propane).
I kept way too many photos in this scrapbook, but how often do you get to hike in the Sylan Mountains?!
Tags: id_node_id_80413 id_perms_bryan_public id_album_80479
© All Rights Reserved
This photo appeared in the following ideotrope albums:
Sylan Mountains high traverse - I finished my Norwegian bicycle tour in Stj?rdal and spent three nights at Astrid and Roar's house. They treated me to wonderful food: mushroom soup with mushrooms they picked, blueberry crumble with blueberries they picked, moose that Roar helped hunt, and ice cream with cloudberry sauce from cloudberries that they picked. All the food was wonderful.
My last day in Scandinavia was spent doing a high traverse of the Sylan Mountains. Astrid and Roar invited their friend, Lise, as well, and the four of us drove for ~90 minutes SE of Stj?rdal to Nedalshytta where we started our hike. At the end of the day Roar figured that we had walked 35-40km and done 1500m of climbing, a wonderful way to spend the day before a long day of airplanes and airports. Along the way I think we climbed the three highest in Sylan Mountains, one of which is Storsylen, the highest peak in the range.
We started (and ended) the hike at one the famous Norwegian backcountry huts though this hut was a bit fancier than most. It's accessible via road half the year. The hut used to be located lower, but the power company built a dam and flooded the old hut location. At part of the new arrangement, the power company supplies free electricity to the hut so everything in the hut is run by electricity (as opposed to wood and propane).
I kept way too many photos in this scrapbook, but how often do you get to hike in the Sylan Mountains?!
Tags: moose id_node_id_80414 id_perms_bryan_public id_album_80479
© All Rights Reserved
This photo appeared in the following ideotrope albums:
Sylan Mountains high traverse - I finished my Norwegian bicycle tour in Stj?rdal and spent three nights at Astrid and Roar's house. They treated me to wonderful food: mushroom soup with mushrooms they picked, blueberry crumble with blueberries they picked, moose that Roar helped hunt, and ice cream with cloudberry sauce from cloudberries that they picked. All the food was wonderful.
My last day in Scandinavia was spent doing a high traverse of the Sylan Mountains. Astrid and Roar invited their friend, Lise, as well, and the four of us drove for ~90 minutes SE of Stj?rdal to Nedalshytta where we started our hike. At the end of the day Roar figured that we had walked 35-40km and done 1500m of climbing, a wonderful way to spend the day before a long day of airplanes and airports. Along the way I think we climbed the three highest in Sylan Mountains, one of which is Storsylen, the highest peak in the range.
We started (and ended) the hike at one the famous Norwegian backcountry huts though this hut was a bit fancier than most. It's accessible via road half the year. The hut used to be located lower, but the power company built a dam and flooded the old hut location. At part of the new arrangement, the power company supplies free electricity to the hut so everything in the hut is run by electricity (as opposed to wood and propane).
I kept way too many photos in this scrapbook, but how often do you get to hike in the Sylan Mountains?!
Tags: moose id_node_id_80415 id_perms_bryan_public id_album_80479
© All Rights Reserved
This photo appeared in the following ideotrope albums:
Sylan Mountains high traverse - I finished my Norwegian bicycle tour in Stj?rdal and spent three nights at Astrid and Roar's house. They treated me to wonderful food: mushroom soup with mushrooms they picked, blueberry crumble with blueberries they picked, moose that Roar helped hunt, and ice cream with cloudberry sauce from cloudberries that they picked. All the food was wonderful.
My last day in Scandinavia was spent doing a high traverse of the Sylan Mountains. Astrid and Roar invited their friend, Lise, as well, and the four of us drove for ~90 minutes SE of Stj?rdal to Nedalshytta where we started our hike. At the end of the day Roar figured that we had walked 35-40km and done 1500m of climbing, a wonderful way to spend the day before a long day of airplanes and airports. Along the way I think we climbed the three highest in Sylan Mountains, one of which is Storsylen, the highest peak in the range.
We started (and ended) the hike at one the famous Norwegian backcountry huts though this hut was a bit fancier than most. It's accessible via road half the year. The hut used to be located lower, but the power company built a dam and flooded the old hut location. At part of the new arrangement, the power company supplies free electricity to the hut so everything in the hut is run by electricity (as opposed to wood and propane).
I kept way too many photos in this scrapbook, but how often do you get to hike in the Sylan Mountains?!
Tags: two moose id_node_id_80416 id_perms_bryan_public id_album_80479
© All Rights Reserved
We parked near this "hut" (hytta) which is accessible via road in the summer but only by skis in the winter.
This photo appeared in the following ideotrope albums:
Sylan Mountains high traverse - I finished my Norwegian bicycle tour in Stj?rdal and spent three nights at Astrid and Roar's house. They treated me to wonderful food: mushroom soup with mushrooms they picked, blueberry crumble with blueberries they picked, moose that Roar helped hunt, and ice cream with cloudberry sauce from cloudberries that they picked. All the food was wonderful.
My last day in Scandinavia was spent doing a high traverse of the Sylan Mountains. Astrid and Roar invited their friend, Lise, as well, and the four of us drove for ~90 minutes SE of Stj?rdal to Nedalshytta where we started our hike. At the end of the day Roar figured that we had walked 35-40km and done 1500m of climbing, a wonderful way to spend the day before a long day of airplanes and airports. Along the way I think we climbed the three highest in Sylan Mountains, one of which is Storsylen, the highest peak in the range.
We started (and ended) the hike at one the famous Norwegian backcountry huts though this hut was a bit fancier than most. It's accessible via road half the year. The hut used to be located lower, but the power company built a dam and flooded the old hut location. At part of the new arrangement, the power company supplies free electricity to the hut so everything in the hut is run by electricity (as opposed to wood and propane).
I kept way too many photos in this scrapbook, but how often do you get to hike in the Sylan Mountains?!
Tags: id_node_id_80417 id_perms_bryan_public id_album_80479
© All Rights Reserved