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Myllykoski rapids and watermill, Kuusamo. Note airy footbridge.
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Log trail through a bog, northeast of Ruka. Put a foot wrong and you’re immediately stuck in bog up to your knees.
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An 18th-century border marker, Litlfjellet, Hedmark. Taken from the Swedish side. It took over two decades to mark the 2200 k. long wilderness border with hundreds of these cairns.
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Cairn and waymarker above Utladalen. There is a dense network of marked trails in much of Norway, but marking (red Ts) is much less frequent than in Austria. Map and compass skills are essential.
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Wooden houses in old Bergen. Kåre, Inna, Jan and Pavla have provided comfortable base camps for our explorations of Norway.
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Ship ahoi! By the fishmarket, Bergen.
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Cairn on the Blåmanen hill above Bergen, with the town below. Getting into the hills is even easier in Bergen than in Vienna.
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Jotunheimen National Park, with Glittertind, Norway’s second highest mountain (2465 m.), on the horizon. All walking in Jotunheimen is above 1000 m.
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Bivouac at Russvatnet, Jotunheimen.
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Participants in a ‘pensionisttur’ of the Norwegian Trekking Association near Høgbrothøgda, Jotunheimen.
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Wanted to check the self-timer when the camera clicked. Jotunheimen, with the Veo glacier in the background.
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Evelyn on Fagerdalshø, Valdresflya, a plateau just south of Jotunheimen.
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Cruise ship in the old harbour, Stavanger.
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Harbour jetty, Åndalsnes.
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Footbridge on the Finse-Kraekkja track, Hardanger Vidda. On this vast plateau all walking is above 1000 m. as well.
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Footbridge boards are stowed in a safe place before winter, so I was confronted with this in Stølsheimen. The unstaffed Åsedalen hut, my objective, was on the other side. I got across on hands and knees.
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In the unstaffed Lurfjell hut, three hours from the nearest road. Norwegian mountain huts are among the most civilised places on earth. When I arrived, a man leaving was brushing the doormat on which his dog had slept.
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The tiny Loennechen hut (see backpack), Dovrefjell.
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The Hurrungane mountains.
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On Storronden in the Rondane mountains, my only 2000-er in Norway.
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Ålesund from the Sukkertoppen trig beacon.
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Reconstructions of traditional fishing boats in the Maritime Museum at Ålesund.
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A ‘Shetland bus’ in the Maritime Museum. With these tiny fishing boats the Norwegian resistance ran a regular service to the British Shetland Islands during the Nazi occupation.
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Sami ‘gamme’ (turf and wood hut), Saltfjell mountains. It is not necessarily cold above the Polar Circle.
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This nameless little lake in Junkerdal National Park, well above the Polar Circle, was my private swimming pool for two days. In the background the Solvågtind. Its curious peak was carved out during the Ice Age.
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Jetty at Kjerringøy, a historic trading post on the Nordland coast.
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Mount Vuorji plays a key role in a Dutch novel set in Finnmark. I wanted to explore the novel’s setting. It was so cold that day that I pitched my tent for lunch. Later, I turned back in a snowstorm: I had three days of treeless plateau ahead of me.
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I returned to Finnmark with my UN Photo Club friend Vadim Novgorodtsev in 2008. Here he is at the Jotka hut on the Finnmark plateau.
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On the way to Vuorji we pitched the tents near a locked private hut. The veranda with sofa was a real luxury; on the other hand, it was still the mosquito season. (Photo by Vadim)
