Trek through Rondane National Park

I leave early in the morning by train from Hamar via Elverum and by bus from Athens to the settlement of Straumbu, from where a three-day trek through the Rondane National Park begins. Along the way I want to visit the 2 highest peaks and experience the Norwegian nature on my own. 15 kg on your back is the first steps to know, especially when you are looking for a lost sidewalk that branches in a forest (almost rainforest) and I choose the path where intuition takes me. I meet a married couple (the last people that day) who were hunting and say that if I go on, the bridge over the river is torn down due to last year's flood and I have to find the way myself. Fortunately, the river is not a big problem in September, but I find the sidewalk after an hour and a half of penetrating the forest and the stones hidden under the densely growing lichen. I'm going relatively well, after a while I leave the forest border, when the views of the surroundings slowly open up to me. With this, the sidewalk gains in steepness until I reach the top of Hoegrenden, where there is a hut in the form of layered stones. I put things here, and the remaining 200 meters of altitude to the top go a lot easily. At Hoegrenden 2118m I see the whole mountain range and everything is completed by the setting sun. The next morning, I decide to descend quickly into the valley so that I can ascend again to the highest mountain of the Rondslottet mountain range, 2178 m. It is already quite crowded here. This is because a large car park has been built under the mountain, where a bus also runs regularly, so there is no shortage of tourists. It calms down until sunset and when I turn behind the hill to the lake, I see only a few tents on the other shore. The night is calm and quiet again. In the morning I pick cranberries and blueberries, make porridge and set off for the rest of the way to the parking lot, where before my bus leaves, I love the landscape, which seems to me like I'm on the moon and not on the ground.

I always thought that narrow bridges are the domain of Asia, even in Norway the driver had to be careful because he just drove a hair around the pillars of the bridge :-)

I finally found the sidewalk and could boldly continue. To the right the top of the day Hoegronden (2,118 m above sea level)

when I leave the forest border

and here I spent my first night in the wilderness, wrapped in a sleeping bag, I woke up at night just stepping on someone / something on the rocks

On top of that, I have not experienced such peace and quiet anywhere for a long time

and he said goodbye to me on the first day

Morning views and right at the destination today, the highest mountain in the park

Morning hygiene in a local stream, I don't know anything refreshing :-)

yesterday's peak of Hoegronden, today from the slope of Rondslottet, the stones you will look at

as in heaven when I walk, people have fun, the sun is shining and the clouds below you just complete the whole scenery

Galdhoepiggen 2469m was the highest mountain in Norway

at the end of the day, when you pick blueberries and cranberries that grow all around

I don't even want to leave here on such a morning

In all its beauty, have a nice time and see you again :-)

on the way from the park