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Our Pilgrim Road started at Hjerkinn.
The Pilgrim Road to Nidaros is a long-distance footpath with
a difference.
In Dovrefjell you can find nice hiking paths if you are a beginner, and
experienced
hiker can find the challenge they're looking for. Our Pilgrim path is
perfect for family with
children.
Visit the Eystein
church before the trip.
Eystein church
was built in 1969, designed by architect Magnus Poulsson and named
not for a saint but after King Eystein Magnusson, who had a saelehus (hospice)
build
on Dovrefjell for pilgrims and other travellers, though it is uncertain
whether it was at
Vesle Hjerkinn or on the site where the Fjellstue now stand.
We started our trip at the church and continue
behind the church, through the woods
and then left up earth road to pick up PL by waymarks. Otherwise - turn
R(facing church)
over stile to campsite.
The pilgimsleden continues(from the Fjellstue) throught
campsite, passing to L of
reception building. The "Royal Road" was a bridleway at first,
but then in the 1700s
it was made suitable for horse-drawn traffic. Go through gate and continue
up hill,
on clear grassy track and less steep. KSO for 4km to Hjerkinhø
1200m.
Literally "Hjerkin hill". Waymark stone informs
you that there are now 208 km left
to Nidaros. (Trondheim) Stony area with a lot of cairns. Splended views
all round on
a clear day.
F rom here you have a beautiful view and can see Snøhetta in the
north west direction.
You can also see Grønbakken farm, this farm had year-round operation
up to 1964.
We did not saw any Musk on the trip, they are as far as I know 30 km north
West of our location. This is a easy trip for ordinary people without
any training.
GPS position for Hjerkinn fjellstue 3253050E 689840N
Experience the wild beauty of Dovrefjell.
The landscape in Dovrefjell National Park, about 20
miles north of Dombas
(which is about a four-hour train ride north of Oslo), is bleak and treeless
with
rivers fed by waterfalls and patches of snow, much like the moors of Wales
or
the Scottish Highlands. Its unique ecological system has been
called Europe's last remaining wilderness.
It was sculpted millions of years ago by glaciers
when Mother Nature was a
teen-ager, and like a typical teen-ager she didn't clean up after herself
very well.
In the years since, all that has grown over these jumbled
rocks is thick
moss, pale yellow lichen, an off-white lichen that looks like tiny
cauliflower florets, occasional heather and gourse - actually I am guessing
at that - and stunted knee-high willows that musk-ox love to eat.
Dovrefjell are well known for its flora.
Here you have our last approximate intact high mountain ecosystem in the
Europe
With wild reindeer, wolverine, arctic fox live in peaceful coexistence
just here in
Dovrefjell-Skrymtheimen area.
Musk
Ox from Dovrefjell
Dovrefjell , mountainous region of S Norway, c.100 mi (160 km)
long and 40 mi (60 km) wide, culminating in Snøhetta (7,500 ft/2,286
m high). It is crossed by the Dovre railway and highway and is the source
of several important rivers. It is a symbol of stead fastness and independence
in Norwegian folklore and literature.
MuskOx at Dovrefjell Norway
In this winter scenery you can view the muskox really enjoy the falling temperature and high wind
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