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In the end I won’t process photos from Norway during long winter evenings, I did it during a short autumn afternoon.

Some information about the action: I flew to Ålesund on the fourth August (a connection from London Gatwick to Norway is excellent) and took a bus directly to Moa shopping center. I bought some supplies and although I had some unexpected troubles with getting maps, I succeeded eventually. There is a bus terminal in Moa, so it’s quite a good starting place. I went just a short way to Festøya and finally set out.

The first part of my route led along Hjørund Fjord to Sæebø village – it was longer than I expected because I lost the path in one place. I took a ferry in Sæebø to Lekneset, bought delicious bread in Urke and set out for more mountains. I walked around Sloden and because I didn’t come up with a good route to my next sub-goal (Sunnylven), I descended the next day again (to Skylstad) and hitchhiked to Sunnylven. There I took a tourist ferry (expensive, but with commentary in Norwegian, German and English) through Geiranger Fjord. Because it was already an evening, I contended with a camp in Geiranger (and I also appreciated a shower).

In the local tourist information office, I learnt nothing about my planned route – they obviously count only with tourists going to the ferry or by car to the Troll Path. My plan was a four-day trek in the area northeast of Geiranger, but unfortunately I failed to pass through the critical place – there was an overhand of snow in the highest point of the route, the rope was under snow and it all didn’t look safe. I scrambled there half the day in rain and I really didn’t feel like going back. But I had no option.

I thought up an alternative from Sylte (I moved there by a bus) – I walked through easier terrain to Tresfjord in the north and went to Ålesund from there. In the evening I pitched my tent in the wild near to the airport and caught my plane back to England in the morning (14th August).