Snow and Ice in Bergsdalen

This part of the mountains used to be, in the early 80s, the main route from Bergen to Oslo. Now it has been replaced by a series of tunnels.

This has got to be amongst the worlds most treacherous roads. There is no room for two cars to pass each other and something like a bus or lorry will fill the road from mountain side to precipice. And the drop is hundreds of feet

Anyway, a good friend of mine, Edwin, came over on a secondment to Bergen from Manila. Personally I though that bringing a Filipino over to Norway in winter was pretty cruel. I mean they put their coats on when the temperature reaches 20 degrees, which ironically is the same temprature at which the Norwegians start taking their clothes off.

So, since he had not seen snow or ice outiside of the cooler box before I thought I'd take him to see some pretty dramtic examples of both. Here is one of the many frozen waterfalls.

And snow as far as the eye can see

And deep enough to swallow a man.

Remember I said that this used to main the main route to the capital?

The other guy is Jun who was also on secondment.

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I think it was minus 6 at this point. I had not actually anticipated getting out of the car (can you tell?).

This is very Norwegian. Find the most inhospital place you can and then build a house there.

One of the many frozen reservoirs up here. And yes we did walk on it.

I think it was very memorable for all. Then we went on to Voss