CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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Norwegian Scenic Route. historic mountain road, glaciers, stone walls. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 19 km this is Geiranger-Trollstigen Norwegian Scenic Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The old Strynefjell road is a piece of nineteenth-century ambition that still works. It was finished in 1894 and for the first time gave the Nordfjord country a proper road across the mountains toward the east, a feat of hand labour and dry-stone masonry that astonished people at the time. The surface was meant for carts and carriages, not engines, and the road reflects that: narrow, winding and following the shape of the land rather than cutting through it. Stone retaining walls, built without mortar, still hold the edge in places where the mountain drops away.
Read the complete Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 1 write-up.
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Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 2.
Where the old Strynefjell road crosses the open mountain, the landscape feels as if it has been scraped clean. The glaciers that once covered this country have left rounded rock, scattered boulders and lakes in every dip, and the soil is so thin that the vegetation seems to cling on by habit. Mosses and lichens colour the stone in rust and grey, and in the damp hollows cotton grass nods in the wind. Mountain streams cross the road in small culverts, loud with melt in early summer and almost silent by autumn.
Read the complete Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 2 write-up.
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Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 2 comes up 12 km in. Next is Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 3.
This high crossing was one of the major links between Nordfjord and the Gudbrandsdal valley long before cars existed. The road's builders worked by hand through the 1880s and 1890s, blasting rock with black powder and laying walls without mortar, and their work was not just practical but also a statement that this remote part of the country could be connected to the rest. Travellers soon followed, and the first grand mountain hotels grew up along the route to serve the carriages. Some of those buildings are still open as places to stay, with an air of Victorian mountain holidays.
Read the complete Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 3 write-up.
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39 km in you reach Norwegian Scenic Route Gamle Strynefjellsvegen point 3.