26 June E74 The 'Sognefjellet'

The Sognefjellet Road goes high over the West side of Jotunheimen National Park and is Northern Europe’s highest mountain pass at 1434 metres (4668 feet) above sea level.  We did not expect to see SO much snow again since leaving Sweden.

It all looked so innocent as we started up the road….

then a few miles later it looked like this……...

Here’s a funny one…….. these cross country skiers only ski up here in Summer! (June, July and August) because there is too much snow for the rest of the year!

Gorgeous….

The snow to the left of Wolfy is over 10 feet deep….

Lovely………just lovely…..

Then on the way down to other side the stark white snowscape gave way to lush green pastures….

and a beautiful Fjord at the end (we bought some fantastic local strawberries here that had just been picked……yum yum).

I should just add that the temperature at the top of the pass was 5c and at the Fjord 22c (Winter and Summer in one day!)