Where the wild trolls roam...

Warning
This trip will take you into a dead-zone. There is no cell phone coverage. Make sure you have enough gas/range on your car, enough clothes and food, and good shoes.
It's quite much colder in the mountain and the weather can turn. Please notify someone when you leave and when you are expected to come back.

In the old Norwegian folktales there were trolls. Real, large, nasty creatures that roamed the woods and the mountains in search for humans to eat.
It's easy to understand where these tales could come from when you visit Jordalen. This remote valley has it all, rivers, lakes, and even a glacier. Best of all - you can easily drive very far into this wilderness.

This is the lake below the glacier - note the very green water, an effect form the algeas from the glacier.
This picture was taken in the middle of July 2024.

The trip

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One of the bridges you must cross with your car.

When we made the trip we constantly thought we had driven "far enough" but there was still a long way to go.
You drive past the Stalheim hotel (see another of the comments on "Things todo"), down through the tunnels and you will get down onto a flat stretch.
Take to the left at the sign to Jordalen and an additional immediate left. You should then drive up to the right, and up an old mine that's been converted to a tunnel. Watch out for trolls in the side corridors.
You will now be driving - very far - on an gravel road, you will pass through (sometimes the middle of) farms, and finally get to a toll bridge.

You must pay the toll here, if you are having problems I can do it on your behalf. Please contact me through Airbnb.

Open the gate, drive through and, important, closed the gate behind you. You will continue to drive for quite a way.
When you get to this lake there will be a split in the road.

Take the right split and drive up the steep hill. This will take you to the glacier-lake.

You can also walk to the glacier from here, we were hindered as the road was still block by snow in the middle of July.
The landscape here is rough and coarse, and it's hard to think anything is living here, but if you look closely you will see traces of animals, like the lemming which makes it caves underneath stones. .

Life is hard in the mountains.
We found these remains of a crow when taking a stop on top of the hill nearby the lake...

All in all we strongly recommend this trip, but expect a cold trip.