From Høyheimsvik to Navarsete

Day 1. Thursday.

Here I have come to Seat Flatningane. There is almost no rise to Navarsete now. A terrain in birch forest.

Started against Vigdalstøl at. 07.50. Lovely and warm weather.

It was a fairly steep climb up Heggedalen. Were on a little nice seats up in the valley at. 08.35.

Then an even steeper ascension followed to Heggedalsvatnet. Were here at 09:30.

It was nice to walk along the water. Then I went up to Stongfjellet at 1200 m.o.h.

Then the path descended towards Fivla. An unmanned DNT cabin.

Here I found a follow-up from DNT. English people on tour. They were at the age of 60-65 and had to go to Navarsete.

Then I was going down the last steep piece. It was dumped. I was very concentrated and took it very carefully down there.

Then it went on a very nice path to the seat Breidsete. Then the trail went as a fishing hook and across the bridge at Vigdøla and down to Vigestøl cabin where I was at. 13.40.

It was a small but very nice cabin. It actually lived a Pine marten below the cabin.

Have started to walk up Vigdalen from Vigdalstøl in fine terrain. So far, it's easy.

Started at 06:25. The sun had just risen.

Passed over the bridge that crossed Rausdøla. Before the trail went up over the Kvanneskredene (Scree). I thought it was OK in 20009.

Now the trail had changed and went all the way to the end of Raudalsvatnet before it reached Oksli. This was because the Scree where the trail went before had begun to touch.

I did not like the new trail any particular. It was quite steep up there, and some airy places.

Started ascension at 7.30 am against Oksli.

Up at Oksli I lost the red mark and messed me down into a stone wall and threw away 30-45 minutes there.

Stay at Løndøla at. 10.10. There was a lot of water here so I had to go further down where there were breiers to get over. A very nice place here.

Be on the bridge at Leirvaten. It was as difficult and come down as in 2009. Almost 2.5m down to the ground.

Went along Leirvatnet. It was a bit scary when it was a 20-30m that was a bit airy here.

It was pretty much climbing up to the top where I was at. 12:00

Then went along Gravdalsvatnet.

I stood on the dive where the trail went steep down to the dam at Fivlemyrane. There was a barracks set up down the mountain side, so the trail was restored.

Stay down at the power station and then follow the gravel road to Nørdsdedalseter where I was at. 15:00.

Got a bed in a dormitory. They really had a nice dormitory.

Here is the bridge over Rausdøla. There is a lot of water in the river now.

Ate breakfast at 07:00 and started going towards Bøvertun at 07.40.

It was a nice climb upwards. A bit on a gravel road. Went past Vetledalsvatnet.

Stay up at the waterfall in Vetladalen.

Come to upper Grønedalsvatnet at. 10.05. Had gone upwards for 3 hours.

Three people who had come after me had reached me again. We sat and ate by the water here.

Come to Liabrevatnet at. 11.20. My three companions settled down here as I continued. Had to skip the outlet here on the rocks.

Come on a path separating Sognefjellshytta, Bøvertun at. 1200.

Further down to Storevatnet I had problems with red marking. I saw the red-marked on my right side, but went down the snowflakes. It went quite fast down.

Down at Storevatnet I found the red mark again.

From the end of Storevatnett to the descent towards Bøvertun, it was a little problematic terrain. Many valleys lay across, so it went up and down. It was steep up at the ascents. Started getting tired and a little stressed to reach the bus at. 16:00.

Come to descent at 14.50. It was very steep down to Bøvertun, and the trail went down down and forth.

Stay down the road at 15.30. and was very tired in the heat.

The bus would arrive at. 16:00, but it did not come. I hailed a nice man from Nordland with a combined caravan and van. He stopped and took me to Lom. He was really a good man.

I now left the bus to Otta, also the train to Oslo.

This had been a trip I had not seen for me. The problems I got at Vigdalstøl and the trip to Førde.

Wondered if I should have been waiting out the problems and see if they had given up, but it's hard to say

The trip was much more tiring than I could imagine. With very much increase, and I saw the description of the 4 first squares that they were graded as demanding and the last 2 were graded as an Expert.

I have not taken notice of this grade before, but realize they can be meaningful.

I would say that it was a very nice terrain I walked in and I did the trip quite well.

I felt pretty tired when I arrived at the cabins, but in the morning I felt OK and I was ready to go next stretch.

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