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much of it is effectively single lane. Several dramatic waterfalls, including the thundering
180m-high Stigfossen, slice down its flanks.
More energetically, you can also take it at a slower pace and puff your way up and over
the old horse trail, narrow and blazed with white spots, that was previously the only com-
munication between the two valleys. The route is also being upgraded in order to make it
more cyclist-friendly, separating bicycles from the motorhomes and caravans that wheeze
their way up.
The pass is usually cleared and open from late May to mid-October; early in the season
it's an impressive trip through a popular cross-country ski field, between high walls of
snow. At the top, a brand-new visitors centre was being constructed when we last crossed.
Of the two new viewpoints, walk just that bit further to the far one, from where the panor-
ama of the snaking road and wide valley far below is much more impressive.
Around you as you descend are the open reaches of Reinheimen National Park, estab-
lished in 2006 and Norway's third largest, where wild reindeer still crop the mosses and
soft grass.
CAR WALKS
No, not an oxymoron but a most useful little brochure for walkers. Invest Nkr35 in
Car Walks, available from Åndalsnes, Valldal, Geiranger and Hellesylt tourist of-
fices. It has suggestions for more than 20 waymarked walks, lasting from 15 minutes
to six hours. Ranging from Geiranger to south of Åndalsnes, each walk sets out from
a public car park.
Raumabanen CLASSIC TRAIN JOURNEY
Trains run daily year-round along this spectacular route, meeting the main line, after
114km, at Dombås. There's also a tourist train (adult/child return Nkr296/148; one child
peradulttravelsfree)withon-boardcommentarythatrunstwicedailyfromJunetoAugust
fromÅndalsnes'lakesidestationuptoBjorli,at600m.Bookatthestationortouristoffice.
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