Beitostølen

Beitostølen is one of Norway's most famous winter sports areas, with all manner of hotels, cabins, alpine centers and whatnot. There's often world cup competitions in skiing or biathlon up here and one of the resorts is owned by the national federation for the handicapped, offering the blind and the crippled some wintery fun (as if they didn't have it difficult enough already).

I made a stop just after the village with all its hubbub and maddening crowds, and stuffed face on svele with sour cream and strawberry jam in relative tranquility at a small kiosk. I had some stunning views while chomping down.

The very end of the cabins and the beginning of merciful solitude.


Ok, there are a handful of cabins down in the highland landscape too. But my, what beautiful mountains, eh?




I believe the goat has something to do with famous playwright Henrik Ibsen's story about Peer Gynt.