Our (Moritz, Daniel, Adele, Zuzana and me)plan was to go to an area in Telemark close to Steinsbu and do a 2 day hike there and one daytrip the first day. As we did our daytrip and we jumped off a 3 or 4 meter diving board we decided to make camp quite close to a school, not closer than 150 meter ofcourse. We played some frisbee golf as I knew that Adele wanted to learn how to make fire and it would be easier without to many people around. We chilled at the fire had some dinner, played some more frisbee until it got dark and after some more chilling we went to bed.
Around 8 am we got woken up by some curious kids sniffing around our tent, because we where apperently on there playing area in the forest. They threw some pinecones on our tent and we could hear them giggle. After hilariously scaring them away with a deep bear growl coming from the tent we decided to wake up and have some breakfast. During breakfast there was an odd looking nature philosopher/ nature musician/mountain guide. He asked what we where doing and where we where heading as he saw some oldskool trangia’s and got curious. When we told our plan he didn’t agree and said we should go the other way. After some time explaining what and when everybody agreed and we changed our plan. After a few hours hiking and jumping around from stone to stone in a canyon ending up at a nice waterfall chilled in the sun for a few hours, there was enough daylight anyways. After some time our inner motivator told us to move on and we drove to the end of the road and started our hike towards Eiriksbu, a DNT hut 6 km away from the road (uphill). It was quite wet and still some snow, every now and then we lost track but found it back. As we reached the hut it got colder, the original plan was to camp close to the hut. Big surprise that didn’t happen. It took some convincing for some people but in the end everybody was happy and warm and cozy in the hut.
We weren’t in a rush so we didn’t start until 13:00 or so. We hiked south towards another hut, wich was supposed to be a nice direction, we would just stick to the path for a bit and find another way back after a while. The few was great and the weather as well. We could see into the Hardanger Vidda and we could see the Gaustatoppen laying majesticly on our west. As we where invincable that trip Moritz convinced us to go up the biggest mountain we could see in our area, so we did. After an hour or so of climbing we reached the top and chilled there for at least half an hour, probably more. The way down was annoying, steep and alot of trees and bushes to penetrate but we managed fine and also saw some raindeer. We decided to go back to the hut and take the same way down. Eventhough Daniel had other plans, but his opinion got outnumbered and he had to give in. After a long walk down we reached our campsite, pitched the tents, made a fire, ate some food and enjoyed our last night of the trip.
In the morning we woke up in the pissing raind, so we packed our tent threw it in the car and drove home.
Learning outcomes
Always bring a map! It felt quite uncomfortable to not have a map of the area, since we lost the track every now and then.
Dont go stupid light! Since my obsession with lightweight backpacking I left some extra clothes in the car because it was such nice weather, until we reached a higher altitude and it got cold. And other then that I had way to much food…. Stupid light but also stupid heavy!