My trip to the highest mountain of Norway

Last week I went on a trip to Galdhøpiggen with my class. We went on a trip so we could get to know each other in the new class. We started Tuesday morning and went home at Friday morning. On the bus trip up to our first camp, we visited many interesting places.

Firstly, we went to “Helvete” or in English “Hell”. This was a cool place, which contained some large potholes. They were made of the river, which dragged stones and rocks around in circles. This procedure just kept on going over a long time and made a 40 meters deep pothole.

Then after surviving Hell, we went to see a geographical phenomenon in Kvitskriuprestinn. We saw some extremely rare pyramids made of different types of materials with a larger rock on top. It was incredible, I had never seen anything like it before, and you have to travel to a different country to see something likely.

After visiting both those places, we were all exhausted and hungry, and we finally arrived our camp “Heidal camping”. We made our own food with camping stoves and spent the night in our tents.

Next morning, we woke up and rafted down the river Sjoa. It was very exciting and extremely funny. The water was stunningly cold, but at least we wore wetsuits. The funniest part was when we surfed on a bigger wave and tons of water splashed in your face. It was a cold experience, but also extremely funny.

Now the trip went to Lom. This is a city not far from Galdhøpiggen. Here a guide walked through the “Norsk-Fjellmuseum” (Norwegian-Mountain museum) and stuffed us with information about things found in the ice glacier. It was interesting to see the things that had been in the ice for many thousands of years, and still look the same. Arrows, shoes and other hunting equipment had been found there when the ice melted.

In the evening, we travelled up to “Juvasshytta” and walked into some ice tunnels under the ice of “Juvafonna” to see 6000 years back in time. This was awesome. The cool sculptures and arrows. I just admire the people who built the tunnels by hand, it had to be a lot of work and it looks so cool.

After Lom and visiting the tunnels under the ice, we drove to “Bøverdalen Vandrerhjem” where we was going to stay for the next couple of days.

Then it was time for our main trip to the highest mountain of Norway, Galdhøpiggen with its 2469 meters. First, the bus drove us to “Juvasshytta” at around 1800 meters above sea level. Then we travelled up to the ice glacier. From there we had to walk in a rope as security, because we could fall down into cracks in the ice. The last part was to walk up to the peak. Here it was a little hut with some soda and chocolate to buy. The view up there was amazing. We saw as long as our eye could see in every directions. It was just awesome. In addition, the weather was incredible. It was the best weather ever been there, I think. 

After taking a bunch of photos, we went down to “Bøverdalen”.

The morning after, we started our bus trip home after an extremely funny and interesting trip.  Thanks for the trip J