Ic.5    Section Flåtjønna - Setertjønhytta 23 km

I had an eventless night under my tarp and got up with the sun already up in the sky. It was to become a rather hot day with sunshine until late afternoon. Soon I entered the Skarvan og Roltdalen National Park. In the beginning there is surprisingly a wooden board walk. Shortly after crossing a river on a bridge the planks stop. Now I was hiking through partly wet soggy meadows uphill until passing the tree line and reaching Sæterfjellet. Up here the trail became dryer with many small lakes and ponds by the way side.

For lunch I reached Skjækerdalshytta which has a small food store. The huts water source had dried out. I had to walk a bit until finally reaching a small slow running creek. Being well fed I locked the hut and moved on to Lake Skjækervatnet. Now I had to walk through forest with some wet meadows. The markings left room for improvement and a few times I had to guess where to continue. Just before crossing the outlet of Lake Skjækervatnet on a bridge across a partially dismantled dam I met the first two hikers of the day. On the other side I was soon up in the open again crossing the next fjell.

At Lake Lagvatnet I saw a couple of tents. Than surprise, surprise the trail was on a wooden board walk again. It soon became clear why. I arrived at Norway's geographic middle point with a small monument. It started to become cloudy. Soon I reached today's goal, Setertjønhytta. I was on my own. When checking the bunkrooms to decide where to spent the night I ran into a lot of luggage in one of them. Later a family of four arrived who spent some nights at the hut. I took some food from the store and prepared my dinner.

Entering National Park

Norwegian exception, a short stretch of trail on boards

Trail marking

Partial view of food store at Skjækerdalshytta

Bridge across outlet of Lake Skjækervatnet using former dam

Monument for Norway's geographic mid point