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Introducing Kjenndalsbreen & Bødalsbreen
Lovely Kjenndalsbreen is 17km up Lodalen from the Nordfjord village of Loen. The least visited of the four best-known glacial tongues, it vies with Nigardsbreen for the most beautiful approach as you run parallel to the turquoise glacial lake of Lovatnet. Bødalsbreen, in a nearby side valley, provides good hiking possibilities.
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Briksdal Adventure (57 87 68 00; www.briksdal-adventure.com) has on offer five- to six-hour guided glacier walks (your crampons crunch the ice for about half this time) on Bødalsbreen (Nkr600). It and Olden Activ (57 87 38 88; www.oldenaktiv.no) offer considerably more demanding 12-hour treks (Nkr750) to 2083m-high Lodalskåpa, the highest point on the Jostedal glacier. Tours set out from Sande camp site.
As you ascend the valley, notice the huge blocks of stone that dislodged from Ramnefjell and crashed down into the lake in 1905, 1936 and 1950 and prepare to duck; the first wave killed 63 people and deposited the lake steamer 400m inland, the second killed 72, while the third just left a bigger scar on the mountain. These are referred to as the Lovatnet disasters.
Last updated: Oct 27, 2008
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