Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Day 9

Ingleshus to Furuhaugli
Miles walked: 9
Lodging: 400 NOK

First we backtracked on the trail to the train station. Carolyn decided she did not want to walk, but instead wanted to take the train to Dombås. We had 30 plus kilometers to walk, and no way we could actually get there at our slow walking speed. 

I was ambivalent about walking....with the walking conditions we had seen thus far, I was worried I would get tired and hurt something. Nevertheless, we set out on the trail, and started up the mountain. Immediately there were the streams and muck to avoid, but I panicked at the first fence climb over we encountered and decided I would rather take the train.

So we walked back down the hill where we ran into Carolyn who was still waiting for the train. We spent a few hours trying to find a bus or other conveyance to get us to Dombås, but were unsuccessful, so took the train, one short stop.

In Dombås, the thought was we might hitchhike to our lodging (many km away), but the entrance to the road was narrow and there was no pull off for a few km. We voted and the cab won. So we spent 421 Kroner to get from Dombås to Furuhaugli where we had the driver drop us off outside of the property so we could be seen as hiking into get the special pilgrim rate.

This property was quite nice, and typical of a lot of the places we stayed. There was a hotel portion, a cabin portion,  and a place where trailers hooked up. The cabin itself was spacious with our own bathroom and kitchen and a bedroom and living room. Now this was living!

Furuhaugli is the beginning of the area with musk oxen. Apparently these were native to Norway many years ago, but went extinct. They were reintroduced from Greenland and again went extinct and then finally they were sent over from Canada. We did not see one, which is good because they are supposed to be pretty nasty to deal with.

Carolyn and I had dinner at the restaurant...Laura declined because they didn’t have enough vegetables on the menu.

I had the single most unhealthy dinner, utterly devoid of vegetables, but it was something I’d wanted to try since childhood at the Norway club: romergrott *sp*. It is a pudding made from sour cream and is a traditional Norwegian dish. You eat it with cinnamon and sugar and I am convinced this is the source of my obsession to eat crepes with sour cream and cinnamon sugar. It was served with a side of sausages and hams — more health food! It was really quite good, and it did fill me up until breakfast. I am happy to have tried this dish at long last.


Traditional Norwegian dinner



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