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Sunday, June 30, 2013 Y 2:55 AM

It was one year ago this sunday where we had that hike in Norway...

01/07/2012
End of the first whole week in norway..
Our second sat in oslo..the school arranged a hiking trip at Nordmarka..
we took the tbane up to the hill/mountain area, got off at Frognerseteren and started the hike..
and we didnt know what was expecting us....the long long hike that wasnt that easy..
it was somehow my first real real hike experience at a place like this..
and it was a really really cool experience..
hiking in norway, in a pretty place, and good cold weather..
A once in a lifetime experience!

Really cool that the tbane can actually come all the way up to such an area...

During winter, this area is actually used for winter skiing, and also competitions..
The different coloured direction meant for ski and hiking..

Pretty scenery along the way made the tough hike worth it...

Early morning, so it was alittle misty..but so pretty..

The beginning seemed ok..
just like normal paths walking on and on enjoying the beautiful nature surroudings...
then after awhile it started drizzling a little and got heavier and lasted awhile..
so the roads were like muddy, wet and had puddles here and there..

Then we stopped at this pretty little house/cafe for a rest...

And the journey continues..and it got tougher as the paths were much harder to walk through..

See how we had to walk through one by one through that way, because the other parts were really muddy and super soft, our whole feet can really sink in kind..

It was really slippery and we all weren't wearing the proper shoes...if only we wore waterproof boots~

And finally we saw some 'view' other than being surrounded my trees...and we finally reached some what the 'top' with a pretty view where we stopped and had lunch...

There wasn't like any shops to buy food, but because we were in norway, we were all used to their some what custom of bringing our own 'lunch box' out..sandwich...

Pretty nice experience having lunch with pretty scenery...

The pretty view up there, but the pics dont really do justice to its beauty..

We sat at the edge with a view, and had our lunch..what an amazing experience..

And then the hike continues...

Most of the time we were all looking down, looking where the next step should be, and stepping on all the small rocks, and not into the mud or water..it was really tiring to take slow steps, walking on rocks, and keep looking down, and trying to walk properly and balance on those small rocks..

Really an experience...

Climbing down still...

Our cute prog coordinator's in blue reaction when seeing what we had to walk on...

Finally! We saw proper 'land' and not rocks in water and mud for us to walk through...and we were really really happy when we saw this and we can just walk and not have to look at the ground and worry our next step!

And we saw 'civilisation' somehow after a crazy tiring 4 hour hike through the forest...

And we actually arrived at Sognsvann lake...which is a tbane stop on another coloured line..and looking at the tbane map we really walked quite a distance!

And so, that very first amazing hike experience in Norway ended!

Really a once in a lifetime experience! =)

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