CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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111 km one way from Fossbergom - plan on about 1 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Sognefjellshytta and Turtagro. The highest point is about 1,450 m. Sognefjellshytta is open in summer only - check it is open before you set off. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 50 km of Lom → Sognefjellshytta.
This part of the ride is 17 km of Sognefjellet Norwegian Scenic Route.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
For about 44 km this is Sognefjellet Norwegian Scenic Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
It has a few thousand people in its municipality, a river that tumbles through a gorge beside the main street and a wooden stave church that has stood for more than eight hundred years. The church, with its dragon-headed gables and dark tarred planks, is among the oldest in Norway, and its interior of carved pillars and painted pews is very fine.
Read the complete Lom write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Lom is where the day begins. Next is Sognefjellshytta.
At 1,434 metres, Sognefjellshytta is the high-water mark of the Sognefjell road, which carries Rv 55 across the roof of Jotunheimen and is usually described as the highest mountain pass in northern Europe. The lodge that gives the spot its name sits right beside the road, a long timber building that has been taking in walkers, skiers and passing riders for generations, and the plateau around it is nothing but bare rock, tarns, snow patches that survive well into July and a sky that seems to start at your boots.
Read the complete Sognefjellshytta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sognefjellshytta comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Nothing on this route is higher. Next is Turtagro, mostly downhill.
Turtagrø is a small hotel at the foot of the Hurrungane, a cluster of sharp granite peaks that Norwegians call their Alps, and it is where Norwegian mountaineering was effectively born. English climbers arrived in the late nineteenth century, led by William Cecil Slingsby, who made first ascents here and wrote about them, and the local guides who worked with him started a tradition that still draws climbers each summer. The hotel has been a base for expeditions since 1888 and has the pleasant, old-fashioned feel of a place where boots by the door are normal.
Read the complete Turtagro write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Turtagro. Next is Gaupne.
Gaupne sits at the head of the Lustrafjord, which is the innermost arm of the Sognefjord, and it is a small village in a very large landscape. The fjord here is narrow and deep, with steep mountainsides rising straight from the water and farms perched on the shelves above, and from the village you can see glimpses of the Jostedalsbreen glacier plateau to the north. Gaupne has just over a thousand people and the municipal centre of Luster, with shops, a petrol station and a few places to eat, and Sogndal, about twenty kilometres away, is the larger town if you need more.
Read the complete Gaupne write-up.
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Gaupne closes the day.
Lom → Sognefjellshytta is 50 km. This is the part worth slowing down for - look through the bends and use the pull-offs.
Sognefjellshytta → Turtagro is 17 km. Brakes and eyes forward; the views are behind the corners, not in them.
Turtagrø → Gaupne is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.