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Vinbekkhorn 779m asl
This time I wanted to avoid a longer car ride and drove around Kongsberg and Notodden. Somewhere between these two cities there is a quite large parking lot, a toilet and, most importantly, couple of hiking trails leading to the surrounding hills. The mountains are not high here and the routes are not too demanding. But in the first week of May, there was still a lot of snow, which made the hike much more difficult. One, that the path lying underneath it becomes invisible, and two, that when walking on such, not often deep snow, the legs sometimes sink to the knees, sometimes up to the waist. Pulling your…
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Skrimfjella
May 17 is the Norwegian national holiday. The inhabitants of the fjords country celebrate it loudly on parades in the city streets, wearing their colorful, traditional folk costumes called bunad. At every step you can see Norwegian national colors and flags waving. Norges Nasjonaldagen commemorates the day of the signing of the constitution, which took place in Eidsvoll on May 17, 1814. Those who do not like street celebrate spend the day in nature. I also planned a trip to the mountains for that day. This time it was just a two-hour drive to Kongsberg and the Skrimfjella mountain range located on its suburbs. The heights of the local peaks…
