Reinheim

A new weekend and new adventures. Me and Tor wanted to get on a new trip, and this time we decided to go to Dovrefjell. We drove the 340 kilometers from Oslo to Dombås on friday after work, and got a cabin close to the centre of Dombås for the night. We bought a map and explored the area.

We decided to drive to Kongsvold Fjeldstue early saturday morning, and walk to a DNT-cabin in Reinheim. Our goal was to reach the top of Snøhetta, the highest mountaintop in the area.

Tor Asbjørn

Ready to get started. It's 9am in the morning and about zero degrees Celsius. Tor has pointed out the route and we are just about to start our 18 km hike.

After about an out of walking, we met 4 others that also were walking. There were no other people in the mountain and they were about to turn when we met up. But when they heard we were going to Reinheim, they wanted also. And that was perfect. We had a great company for the rest of the walk.

Sliten nå

After 5 hours we arrived Reinheim and we got into the cabin. The night we spent playing cards and yatzee while drinking cognac and beers :)

Snøstorm

We woke up the next morning to a snow storm. We couldn't see much, and it was snowing like crazy. We were in doubt, wheter it was safe to walk back home, but decided to give it a show. Unfortunately we had to cancel the Snøhetta-trip. We had to walk in 50-70 centimeters new snow for many kilometers, and I steped through small waterholes several times. It felt great to finally pass the storm areas.

We hadn't seen much animals yet, neither reindeer, muskox nor any birds, but this was about to change. After about three hours we came out of the storm area, and the weather cleared up. Soon we almost walked into a crowd of reindeers, about 40-50 of them. This is actually the only wild reindeers in Norway. We came a little bit too close, and one of the "chief"-reindeer threatened us. It ran towards us to tell us to go away, and we took the hint and walk around our route.

1 hour later we saw about 15-20 muskoxes. It's not recommended to be closer than 200 meters to the muskox, since they might attack. But we got past them quietly, but I got a bit nervous when one of them raised up and stared at us.

Norges eneste villrein

Moskus

We used about 2 hours more on the way back and we were all exhausted at the end. Luckily the last kilometers of the trip was flat and it wasn't too snowy.

Mer moskus

When we got back Kongsvold the weather really cleared up, and we could see the unreachable Snøhetta far, far away...

Dovre, Norway