Summary: Fokstugu to Hjerkinn. 21.5 km (phone) or 24 km (book). Windy.
I went to bed at 9:30pm last night and slept until 7am this morning. That was great!
We’ve been walking for 21 days…that’s 3 weeks solid. Wow. My legs felt great this morning after two days of under 14km, but they are tired again tonight after our longer walk today.
The place we stayed last night has a small store and a kitchen shared with three rooms (3 bed spots per room) so we were able to buy food for dinner last night and breakfast and lunch today.
8:30 am start walking. Spitting rain, dark clouds and windy. Slow moving. We averaged about 2.5 km/hr. It took me 2 hours to get 10,000 steps and 5.8 km.
Our home last night as we crawl up the mountain.Alien egg!Last week, I couldn’t imagine using my wool gloves. Today, I was so grateful that I’ve lugged them around for three weeks.We were so lucky to have so much dry weather. I think it gets a lot muckier up here!
8.4 km at 11:30 am, lunch stop.
The lichen is amazing!Hello!These were curious rocks. They were very large…too large for a human to place them there (not the ones added on the very top). I wonder what the story behind them is.Bågåstelle
12.4 km at 13:23. Break.
17.5 km break. Apparently 5.1 km to go.
“Årestua had a fireplace inside by the wall to cook, and one in the middle of the room for light and heat. In this site, archaeologists in the 1980s found the largest coin find made in Norwegian mountains, here they found half-finished chambers made of bones from reindeer. Here they found bones from over 20 different fish species, most of them saltwater fish. There has been a lot of activity in this place in the Middle Ages, both by hunters, pilgrims and other travelers – until the place was laid waste after the Black Death in 1349” (pilegrimsleden.no)The final stretchReady!!Ellen, a Norwegian woman who is friends with my Jasper family, and who I met in Jasper, came to say hi!
Stories from the Walk Home 