qupkene / Norway

Practical index

Norway

The rules, conventions and infrastructure that the route descriptions assume you already know.

Every route page on this site takes some things for granted: that you can camp more or less where you like within limits, that unstaffed cabins operate on trust, that the forecast for the valley is not the forecast for the ridge. These pages are those assumptions written out.

• The right to roam

  A genuinely broad right, with a small number of conditions that people routinely get wrong.

• DNT cabins

  A network of huts run largely on trust, in three quite different varieties.

• Weather forecasts

  The forecast for the village is not the forecast for the place you are going.

• Getting around

  Getting there is usually solvable. Getting back is what needs checking first.

• The mountain code

  Nine rules that read as obvious and are broken constantly.