TROLLØYPA – DAY 4

from Vetåbu to Djupslia

^22-02-19

Starting into another gloriously sunny day!

From Vetåbu on there is scooter tracks as well as the usual stick markers. Great to just speed on against the sun over the moors!

Quite soon I get to a series of sæter – summer grazing areas and their cabins; the first of them is Nord-Goppollen.

Then I cross moose tracks several times. ..

…which only makes sense, since I get into lightly forested area.

After some more moors, crossing a snow covered road, and some more cabins, I meet a prepped løype. Soon after its start, I have my lunchbreak in the wind shadow of a little shed overlooking a (frozen and snowcovered) lake.

Then it’s really speeding on, on this highway of a løype:

I have to cross the river Golloppåa, but luckily there is a bridge.

No wonder this feels like highway, when there is even road signs for the european motorway E6!

So all too soon I arrive at my next cabin. I consider to climb the next hill for a view, or get down the 500m (and 50m height difference) or so to the lake Djupen… but the snow is sooo deep and loose here in the woods, and I can start to feel the last day’s effort in my body – so I just can’t be asked 😉

Instead I just axe some fire wood, get the fire going, and relax by the wood oven with reading.

Then it’s pancakes for dinner (in addition to tomato soup and cookies); slightly improvised menue as the food store here is quite depleted (of vegetarian main dishes).

All in all, very happy with my speedy 16+km today!

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