27.5 km, 361 floors (1083 m).
7:30 breakfast
8:30 start walking
Cool morning with clear sky and sun.
A detour due to construction started the day.
8.5 km We visited a stavkirke. The smell of the wood in the sun was amazing!! The door to the church was incredible!
10 km noon
12 km Ringebu. I sent more stuff home including guide’s tarp, foldable bucket, bowl, spices & oil, coffee filter, swim suit bottoms. Nice-to-haves are heavy-to-carries.
14.5 km needing a break and feeling it. We conjured up a bench to sit down on and relax.
Smells of a hot summer day wafted by from time to time.
We had a beer at the Pilgrim Senter before walking the last few kms to our destination.
Dinner was right away so I went all stinky. The benches were too high and my tired legs didn’t get a rest until I crawled into bed.
There are newer rooms but we are in the pilgrim’s cabin, an original building apparently built 700 years ago.
The following, about our accommodations, is from pilegrimsleden.no:
“Sygard Grytting is an old farm estate, today functioning as a hotel. Coal pits, rich grave findings dating back to the 4th century, and Viking burial grounds suggests early settlement and powerful families living in the area. Today’s owner Stig Grytting is the 16th generation running the farm. It has been the Grytting’s property at least since 1534, but most likely longer and probably as far back as the 14th century.”
I’m super tired today.
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