My room last night was on the top floor. It was cosy and warm but, when the rain started to bucket down in the middle of the night it was loud! That was ok, I needed an early start. I made a quick breakfast, packed a couple of cheese rolls for lunch and set off.
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A short stretch out of the town on the tarmac was about all the proper road we saw today (apart from the last kilometre). After crossing railway tracks, we were soon up in the forest. It wasn’t raining, but it wasn’t warm, and the trees would occasionally decide that they should drop all the water from their leaves onto our heads. The rain jacket was definitely the right choice.
A stop for second breakfast outside the shooting club building at about 10k in was just what the doctor ordered. While there Margien from the Netherlands walked past. We chatted for a while at the start of what would be a prolonged game of leapfrog.
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A little further on we came to what the guide describes as ‘a rest stop with the ambience of a living room.’ What choice did we have but to stop? It was a chance to regroup before the upcoming bog stage! 4km of bog to be crossed, and I still can’t work out how the Norwegians manage to maintain bogs on a steep hill. Some of the way was made slightly easier by plank walk ways. I say ‘slightly’ because wet, wooded boards are very slippery. It was a fun walk. Lots of time spent looking at my feet’
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Home for tonight is a church hall in Skaum. Apparently there will be 11 of us tonight. We had to erect our own beds. The volunteer will be back to give us our obligatory tour of the church at 7pm this evening.
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