AttheEdgeoftheWorld
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- vdlp (may/june 2015)
Hello all.
I have the luxury of having a couple weeks in Norway to spare before leaving from Oslo to Svalbard for a work trip. I have decided that I will use this time to walk part of the Gudbrandsdalen path. Instead of starting in Oslo, I will take the train immediately to Otta June 1st and start from there. I should have about 15 days to get to Trondheim. I'm hoping to camp most /all of the way. I would love love love any tips or advice that anyone has to offer.
I understand that it has been a rather cold spring in Norway, but I am a rather rugged, west coast Canadian gal with good camping gear and am not too fussed about that, but is the route over the Dovrefjell open/snow free yet? Due to my timing I know I will be hitting Dovre on a Sunday (likely) and the shops will be closed for groceries, I plan just to bring about 5 days of camping food with me from Canada and maybe pick up the occasional meal from the lodges on the way. Does this seem unreasonable to anyone? I usually dehydrate my own for camping here, but will be extra careful to make it vegan as I understand I can't bring meat or dairy into Norway and is not from the EU....just curious as anyone ever tried to bring commercially prepared camp food in from outside the EU that contains meat or dairy and had an issue (eg Mountain House?). Also, I would like to bring my alcohol stove as it is my lightest options. Are methylate spirts widely available? I heard that there is a brand called "Raudz" there that is found is all the gas stations but if anyone has good knowledge about this I would appreciate it.
The one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to get a pilgrims passport before I leave. I have sent a few emails around that I have gleaned from the pilegrimsleden.no website but haven't got any response (in English mind you, so maybe that is the problem). Any tips?
Many thanks!!
I have the luxury of having a couple weeks in Norway to spare before leaving from Oslo to Svalbard for a work trip. I have decided that I will use this time to walk part of the Gudbrandsdalen path. Instead of starting in Oslo, I will take the train immediately to Otta June 1st and start from there. I should have about 15 days to get to Trondheim. I'm hoping to camp most /all of the way. I would love love love any tips or advice that anyone has to offer.
I understand that it has been a rather cold spring in Norway, but I am a rather rugged, west coast Canadian gal with good camping gear and am not too fussed about that, but is the route over the Dovrefjell open/snow free yet? Due to my timing I know I will be hitting Dovre on a Sunday (likely) and the shops will be closed for groceries, I plan just to bring about 5 days of camping food with me from Canada and maybe pick up the occasional meal from the lodges on the way. Does this seem unreasonable to anyone? I usually dehydrate my own for camping here, but will be extra careful to make it vegan as I understand I can't bring meat or dairy into Norway and is not from the EU....just curious as anyone ever tried to bring commercially prepared camp food in from outside the EU that contains meat or dairy and had an issue (eg Mountain House?). Also, I would like to bring my alcohol stove as it is my lightest options. Are methylate spirts widely available? I heard that there is a brand called "Raudz" there that is found is all the gas stations but if anyone has good knowledge about this I would appreciate it.
The one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to get a pilgrims passport before I leave. I have sent a few emails around that I have gleaned from the pilegrimsleden.no website but haven't got any response (in English mind you, so maybe that is the problem). Any tips?
Many thanks!!