{"id":13405,"date":"2016-08-17T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=13405"},"modified":"2024-05-09T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:38:06","slug":"norway-2016-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2016\/08\/norway-2016-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway 2016 &#8211; Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We crawled out of our tent and got ready. It was cold in the valley but once we crossed the river and climbed a little we reached the sun. It was a perfect weather day. Even more perfect than yesterday. We headed up to Galdh\u00f8piggen, the highest peak in Norway (and not at all technical) with a large horde of other tourists. Most were very slow so we passed them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The view from the summit was very nice. Steep cliffs and glaciers. We ate our Lom bread further down and arrived back down at the car park 6 hours after we started. After packing up our tent we had a delicious descent back down the gravel road to the main road. It was probably the most enjoyable riding of the whole trip. Lots of rolling, nice and warm, great scenery.<\/p>\n<p>We rode back into town arriving after the bakery had closed but luckily one of the women closing the til out the front let us in and I came back out with two loaves of fruit and nut. Victory a second time.<\/p>\n<p>We camped down by the lake in Lom in the evening and did battle with the mosquitos.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cris-and-snow-below-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Cris and snow below (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cris-and-snow-below-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Cris and snow below (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cris-and-snow-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Cris and snow (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cris-and-snow-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Cris and snow (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Riding-down-the-gravel-road-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Riding down the gravel road (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Riding-down-the-gravel-road-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Riding down the gravel road (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: We headed up to Galdh\u00f8piggen with the hordes of tourists doing the same. It took about 3 hours to the top at what was a fairly easy pace for us. Above middle: The views from the summit were nice. There is quite a drop from the summit to the glaciers below on one side. The route that we followed was not at all technical though. Above right: We headed back down to Lom from Spiterstulen after climbing Galdh\u00f8piggen. The descent was nice. The gravel road was mostly smooth with a few potholes to make things a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Leonie-and-tent-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Leonie and tent (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Leonie-and-tent-Cycle-Touring-Norway-2016_thumb-1.jpg\" alt=\"Leonie and tent (Cycle Touring Norway 2016)\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: We found a spot down by the river just outside of Lom to camp for the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We crawled out of our tent and got ready. It was cold in the valley but once we crossed the river and climbed a little we reached the sun. It was a perfect weather day. Even more perfect than yesterday. We headed up to Galdh\u00f8piggen, the highest peak in Norway (and not at all technical) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,222,67,32,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camping","category-cycle-touring","category-cycling","category-hiking","category-norway","category-tramping","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13625,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions\/13625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}