Jostedalsbreen (Glaciar de Jostedal)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.18 mi
- Elevation gain
- 459 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 459 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,172 ft
- TrailRank
- 44
- Min elevation
- 1,172 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 4 hours 22 minutes
- Coordinates
- 901
- Uploaded
- August 13, 2014
- Recorded
- July 2014
near Fåberg, Sogn og Fjordane (Norge)
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We left from the ferry in the direction of the Jostedal glacier, where after acquiring tickets for the family tour in the interpretation center, we took the car and a little over a kilometer we reached a toll barrier (in the countryside, yes), which He makes us pay 40 crowns to be able to pass through there. In another two kilometers we reached the car park, parked our Skoda and looked for the path marked with a T of red paint. These signals will take us to the same language as the glacier.
It is noteworthy that there are several routes to choose from depending on the time you want to spend on the glacier and the difficulty. We choose the family option (one hour for the ice).
According to the information, the road is made in about 45 minutes and is qualified as simple. We have an hour and a half, so we started slowly and looking for a place to account for our food purchased in the town's supermarket.
The route runs between giant stones, climbs, descents, streams, fixed bridges, suspension bridges, footbridges and rocky, so the qualification of simple route is doubtful. We also crossed with many people wearing flip flops, summer slippers (most of the Asians we met were wearing them) and the least boots or hiking shoes.
Shortly after starting the road we find a lagoon where there is a boat that crosses it half way (this option we discard, because we preferred to walk) and then continue between stones to the tongue.
The road to the language is about 4 kms that we do quickly, and even then it takes almost an hour to get to the left side of the tongue (plus another half hour to eat the sandwich), where was our meeting point with the group. We put on our crampons, tied the rope around our waist and formed a rope of about 20 people to walk on the ice of the glacier about 200 meters (this is not included in the track).
An hour later, and after seeing a couple of caves of the thaw, having walked through perpetual ice we reached our meeting point to return to the parking lot, but not before passing through another of the thaw caves where one of the rivers flows that carry water to the lagoon and that is the origin of the Jostedal glacier.
It is noteworthy that there are several routes to choose from depending on the time you want to spend on the glacier and the difficulty. We choose the family option (one hour for the ice).
According to the information, the road is made in about 45 minutes and is qualified as simple. We have an hour and a half, so we started slowly and looking for a place to account for our food purchased in the town's supermarket.
The route runs between giant stones, climbs, descents, streams, fixed bridges, suspension bridges, footbridges and rocky, so the qualification of simple route is doubtful. We also crossed with many people wearing flip flops, summer slippers (most of the Asians we met were wearing them) and the least boots or hiking shoes.
Shortly after starting the road we find a lagoon where there is a boat that crosses it half way (this option we discard, because we preferred to walk) and then continue between stones to the tongue.
The road to the language is about 4 kms that we do quickly, and even then it takes almost an hour to get to the left side of the tongue (plus another half hour to eat the sandwich), where was our meeting point with the group. We put on our crampons, tied the rope around our waist and formed a rope of about 20 people to walk on the ice of the glacier about 200 meters (this is not included in the track).
An hour later, and after seeing a couple of caves of the thaw, having walked through perpetual ice we reached our meeting point to return to the parking lot, but not before passing through another of the thaw caves where one of the rivers flows that carry water to the lagoon and that is the origin of the Jostedal glacier.
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Quiero ir este verano 2020 por allí (si nos respeta el coronavirus claro). Has hecho lo que yo quiero un paseo por el glaciar. ¿Hay rutas organizadas? ¿Alquiler de crampones allí mismo?
Te agradezco la info.
Saludos cordiales.
hay rutas organizadas por supuesto. Crampones no vi de alquiler, pero en el pueblo más cercano seguro. Nosotros fuimos a nuestro aire, sin crampones. Hay recorrido marcado, así que puedes ir sin problema siguiendo el itinerario sin salirte, ya que en el recorrido hay griuetas y cavernas peligrosas por riesgo de caída. Espero lo disfrutes y ya me contarás la experiencia.
Gracias.
A ver si busco alguna empresa en el pueblo en san google.
Te contaré...si no se jo** el viaje con el dichoso coronavirus.
Qué maravilla de lugar y de paisaje?, se podría ir en invierno si te gusta el frío de verdad como a mí o está prohibido?