Hiking Preikestolen
Finding wild camps in Norway is not difficult we use two Apps/Sites Searchforsites and
Camper Contact (Motorhome Parkings). Both we have found to be fantastic.
We did all 3 famous Norway hikes in 5 days, WITH a 10 year old daughter. It is important to note that we are on a roadtrip for 5 months in a campervan, details of where we stayed and a week by week wrap are on our blog if you are planning a similar adventure.
When did we visit
Summer, July 2018.
You can watch the youtube clip here of hiking Preikestolen
Staying at a wild camp in Forsand on the water. Approximately 18km from
the starting point of our hike, it was a very popular wild camp so don’t arrive too late, expecting a spot.
We wanted to try and start a little earlier than the Kjeragbolten so we go up at 5:00am were on our way in reasonable time.
Parking
There is limited car spaces at the main car park which once full you have to park in the overflow, same price just another 800m each way onto your hike!
Also, there is a caravan park at the bottom of the hill. If your keen (not a long hike anyway) you could stay there and it would add another 4km each way.
How long should I allow
They say to allow 2 hours each way, this is generous. It is 3.8km each way.
How long did it take us
We left the car park at 6:20am and arrived back at 10am. We spent quite a lot of time on the rock and chatting to people.
What did we think
Easy hike (although Leanne was suffering a knee injury after a slip on
kjeragbolten), Mum and Miss B took hiking sticks, very enjoyable and beautiful. Suitable all ages this one. Lots of people camped up there whether in tents or sleeping bags with no problems.
Your destination, a mountain plateau protruding approximately 30m. You can walk out and have your photo taken from variety of different positions nearby. 604m high looking down over Lysefjorden.
Everyone is in the same boat and wants photos, so although you will always get one or two inconsiderate people who insist on sitting right in the view of the main photo spot, on the whole it is pretty easy. People will exchange cameras ect if you are alone or want the family/couple shot.
There is also some amazing positions higher than the rock that will provide
great angles if your keen for additional climbing.
Was way more crowded coming back, which slowed our descent. With perfect weather and scenery like that – who’s complaining. But for fitness fanatics that may like to run up the trail I recommend an earlier start or camp over.
Water
Before beginning the climb there is toilets and an outdoor tap to fill water bottles.
There was parts of the walk you could have got access to water in small
streams and we had our lifestraw water bottle to fill up, but also took 3 litres of water as we did not know this prior to leaving. This was ample in the conditions we had for our hike.
On arriving back to the car park we took the opportunity to fill our water bottles, our portable Scrubba Wash Bag and washed our socks from two days of hiking they needed it!!
Where did we go after
Knowing Trolltunga was next on our list we started heading North!
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