NPL Day 87

Day 87: Monday 11 September 2023

Otta-Lusæter via Ottadalen, Lusæterhøgda

The thought of us waking up in Oslo then take the train 6 hours to Otta then walk over 30 km to Lukas' aunt (Gabriella) and her husband (Erik)'s hut in one day felt insane. But that was what we planned to do.

We woke up by Dag and Roy preparing breakfast. It was so nice being there and they took such good care of us.

This time we took the Metro again to the train station. This time Lukas didn't get as ill on the train as last time, but that changed once we stepped on the bus.

Unfortunately the bus arrived to Otta 30 minutes later than according to the timetable. Somewhat problematic for us since that meant we had even less time before the sun set, roughly 7.5 hours, and today we had planned to walk over 30 km. It also didn't helpt that our packs were heavy because we had bought a lot of snacks and ONLY heavy food for dinner (Billys, mashed potato powder, beer sausage and Uncle Ben's Quick Rice with Korvstroganoff powder). Lukas really struggled with his backpack - it didn't sit good on his back. Kim struggled with period pains and her backpack put pressure on her stomach which made it worse. We tried to take short but many breaks, but we made slow progress... The sun started to set and we put on our headlamps, hoping not too many cars would pass us in the darkness now that we walked on a small dirt road. We hoped the mountain we would pass in a few hours wouldn't be too hard to navigate in the darkness.

Luckily it wasn't. The only hard part was for Lukas not to step in cow poop 😅😂 Finding the hut was a bit tricky in the dark since there was no road from the direction we were coming. But it wasn't too hard, just a bit wet. Finally we could see the reflection of our headlamps in the windows.

When inside we lit some candles in the beautiful hut. Erik had built this hut when he was just 26 years old, so more than 40 years ago!

We had already eaten some mini pizzas on the way, and now ate the rest. We also ate some Swedish tunnbröd with some Nötcreme on top 😍

Today's

Distance: 30.65 km

Start time: 14:08

End time: 22:20

Ascent: 961 m

Descent: 359 m

Tent: 55/88