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- Lars Peters
- April 11, 2019
- Nome, Vestvold og Telemark
- Round trip
This trail always dries up early as the slopes face south-west and are in the perfect angle for the sun. It’s a short round just under 5 km and even thou its steep it runs quite quickly. There is always a little flat part or a bend that gives you time to recover a little in between the steeps.
The trail start with following a gravel road for a couple of hundred meters before it dives into the forest at the signpost pointing to ‘Vestre Nuke’. The way up is well marked with red dots and bricks of wood in the trees, easy to follow. after about 1,5 km or so the trail bents to the left and up a rocky horse trail. From here it gets steep all the way up to the top. Just before you reach the top there is a little sign to a lookout point. from here you can look quite far into forests of Landsmarka. The actual top point with the traditional mailbox is just a little further.
Form here the trails changes color and you follow Blue dots and bricks down the slope back to the gravel road down at the lake. The underground it firm with little loose rocks making it a good trail to cruise down. this is also why i personally prefer to take the red up and blue trail down. There is a lot more loose rubble, tree-roots, and rocks on the red trail so its way better to run red up and blue down in my opinion.
Well marked, with a signpost that has a map at the staring point. Red marks on the way up & Blue markings on the way down (dots on stones and pieces of wood hanging in the trees)
Good conditions for running along the whole trail, it dries quickly since the trail faces south & west.
There is a little shortcut down the blue marked trail. Its steeper but cuts a couple of hundred meters. if running down i would take the slightly longer route. It’s marked with a little signpost that says ‘litt lengere men slakere’. Blue markings also continue that way.
Dense forest on the way up, mostly pine. as soon as you start climbing up it opens up a little with large slabs of rock on the ground.
- Easy parking along the road. some sports where the blue trail comes down (where this gpx track starts) and a couple of parking spots at the signpost with a map, 100m further along the road.
- Closest camping is Telemark Kanalcamping in Lunde
- Nearest overnight accommodations is ‘Lunde Vandrehjem’