Though it doesn’t look like it – it is about midnight at this point. We headed toward our next destination, and using a great app Park4Night, we were able to find a nice place in the woods to put our van and rest for the night. 

This place, just happened to be about 2 minutes from another place called Skjervsfossen, somewhere we had not planned to visit – but thought – why not go since we are here?!

This kind of serendipity seems to happen quite naturally when you’re open for it! We were blown away by the immense size of this waterfall, and even more by the fact that ZERO other people were there. 

Eric McDermott

It was only a short stop at the falls until we headed to our destination, the Jordenal Valley. Here, we’d take on the summit of Bakkanosi and get our first real sight of that classical, postcard-view of the Fjords.

The hike went through beautiful green pastures, following trickling streams to their sources: Glacial lakes and ice caps. We were so amazed to find ourselves walking through snow to reach the summit, quite literally in the middle of the longest days of the year in Norway, in the middle of the summer.

The hike, and the view, were simply breathtaking.

Eric McDermott